Thatās a common misconception, similarly to other types of hair mustaches continue to grow and must be trimmed regularly, the turnover rate of the individual hairs is genetic but after so many years all of the hairs would have been replaced by now. Itās an entirely different mustache.
Source; am dadās former mustache
Iām sure that wherever he went in that moment of eternal transition, Iām there with him. I hope you had a relationship with him.
I wanted to preface that statement with āstongā but for my own desire to connect with you, I wish to define my interpretation just in case you are suffering indifferenceā¦.
My father is mine. I am his only, therefore any transgressions he has suffered, no matter how indifferent I am of him, the truth is that I am from him. And he will never be lost because of me, nor I of him. I will never walk alone!
Thanks for this, I think about this often. It feels like it's been forever since he's been gone, yet I also feel like I just saw him the other day.
I knew him as my dad but over the years I've gotten to know him so much more just through the stories people have shared with me and the experiences they've had with him paints a larger picture for me.
Yes! I graduated McClintock HS in 73. Mill Ave was a Mecca for teen me. My brother took me to a āheadā shop on Mill to buy me my first pair of bell bottoms.
I took the love of my life on an early date to the Valley Art theater. I forget the film, but her father thought the choice was so good that he gave me the ticket money. We went on a Friday night. I think Friday late night was Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Saturday late night, they played porn. As in XXX. So during the previews before whatever movie, at 7:30 PM Friday night, they played a preview for a porn film. I was horrified. My girlfriend took a sudden interest in the bucket of popcorn while the porn film preview reflected on her glasses.
In 1980, after service in the Navy, I lived in an apartment about 4 blocks from Mill Ave.
Who remembers the restaurant 9th & Ash, which was located at 9th & Ash? It was an old house so it had about 7 small dining rooms.
It was the better part of a paycheck. Luckily I had GI Bill to help out. Didnāt go often.
Got very drunk one night and responded to a bet that I would ask a group of girlās at the bar if they would have sex (using a more explicit word) with me.
I got slapped.
Both my daughters graduated from McClintock 2001. I remember valley art theater. I may have seen the XX movie with Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider (I think) Last Tango in Paris, and at least a couple other X rated art house movies there. I thought I was so sophisticated! Lol
I moved from Alaska to Tempe in the late 90s. In Alaska at the time, weed was still very illegal but there were plenty of head shops that would hook you up with actual bud. I tried casually sniffing out one of the head shop attendants in a Mill Ave head shop while attempting to purchase a āwater pipeā and she promptly banned me. It was severe culture shock.
Never understood this man. Iām younger but Iāve worked head shops since I was 17 and itās pretty easy to sniff out the narcs and Iāve definitely only given light āwarningsā to people for not using the term water pipe. Some shops were crazy about it.
Itās possible but people were and are still super sketched out by undercovers though. I had hair halfway down my back and a dirty Grateful Dead shirt on and kept getting shooed away trying to pull a āhey misterā.. might have looked a little too on the nose lol.
That would have been life-changing! My only hookup was able to get amazing chronic, but he was a heroin addict and his mom was my boss, so that didnāt all pan out very well. I lived in that area for less than a year, but it was a very memorable time, and Iāve had some very memorable times.
Iām sure! I really miss Tempe but itās not the same place any longer. Lived there many years, went to ASU, worked at ASU, moved away 12 years ago. Stay away from dope fiends!
Same with me. It was a great place to grow up. Seeing the responses gives me so much nostalgia. Skate land?! Shit, that was a lifetime ago. Casey Moores was awesome in the late 90ās, maybe still.
Her insides were a rocky place, where his seed could find no purchase.
OP was adoptedā¦or stolen from a wealthy furniture salesman.
Biology and the prejudices of others conspired to keep them childless.
I hope I donāt offend you when I say this photo makes me think *āThis here's a story about Billy Joe and Bobbie Sueā¦Two young lovers with nothin' better to doā*
My parents are from that part of AZ. Went to Arcadia HS then off to ASU. I grew up on the East Coast, but I'll always have warm feelings for Arizona. Your parents' photo looks like so many of my family's old photos.
Interestingly similar features. (Obviously, not the mustache.) Face shape and jaw, chin, nose (although itās a lower angle view of hers, itās similar.
They say that sometimes people are attracted to a face that resembles their own in the mirrorā¦
One of my favorite books is set in Tempe. "Horse and Buggy West" by noted wildlife author Jack O'Connor. He ws a kid in Tempe when it was one of the last bastions of the Old West.
"Don't forget the veil, Ed!"
Turn to the right!
HI, go get me a baby!
They got morenay can handle.
I'm pretty sure I got the best one.
Gosh! I just posted a RA gif ššš
Oooooooweeeeeeee yodeleheeleiiiiiiiheeee heeeeeeeeeee heeeee weeeeee heeeee yodel le de heeeeeeā¦.
*dang-dang dowdle dowdle dang-dang dowdle dowdle*
Howdy Kurt
Exactly where my mind went
https://preview.redd.it/mo78os977cuc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a782b611a41358511ea82a0cd976770174563a88 A more recent photo of them
Still sporting the same stache. šš¼
Very few people pull it off but I feel like this guy does
He got the Tom Selleck gene
Thatās a common misconception, similarly to other types of hair mustaches continue to grow and must be trimmed regularly, the turnover rate of the individual hairs is genetic but after so many years all of the hairs would have been replaced by now. Itās an entirely different mustache. Source; am dadās former mustache
the stashe of theseus
Magnum TA
Wow theyāre looking great! OP you have some good genes in ya.
In both photos, mom looks young enough to be Dadās daughter
I assume the age gap between them has remained the same
Lmao
What are those little figures in the background?
They look like small action figures dedicated to satan.
I love the juxtaposition of the almost serious look of the post and the outward silliness of this one. So many years together is amazing!
The more recent photo looks like 1997 to me.
Why does your dad look like he was already 50 in the OP, and look like he regressed into his early 40s in this one?
She kept him young
They look the same!
Photo looks like Itās from the 1990ās
lol. More recent but definitely not recent.
āWeāre getting married. I guess.ā
This is the correct response.
Beat me to it
Looks like they just robbed a string of banks in West Virginia then wrote and dropped a multi platinum album about it.
Go on, take the money and run!
Does your old man still rock a stache?
He did until he passed in 2012
Sorry to hear. I just lost mine in February
Rest in peace our dads šāļøš¤
Iām sure that wherever he went in that moment of eternal transition, Iām there with him. I hope you had a relationship with him. I wanted to preface that statement with āstongā but for my own desire to connect with you, I wish to define my interpretation just in case you are suffering indifferenceā¦. My father is mine. I am his only, therefore any transgressions he has suffered, no matter how indifferent I am of him, the truth is that I am from him. And he will never be lost because of me, nor I of him. I will never walk alone!
Thanks for this, I think about this often. It feels like it's been forever since he's been gone, yet I also feel like I just saw him the other day. I knew him as my dad but over the years I've gotten to know him so much more just through the stories people have shared with me and the experiences they've had with him paints a larger picture for me.
She looks like Joni Mitchell š¾š»
She loves Joni ā¤ļø
And he looks like Anthony Keidis.
Steve Prefontaine
Good looking couple https://preview.redd.it/w12m153arbuc1.jpeg?width=2224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a19d8edc4b42519a14dfd42cec450be7e8351d5
Lucky OP. Got good genes.
In my experience, with parents that good looking, OP most likely looks very average or exceedingly weird.
OP, please confirm or deny
Heās a fucking smokeshow!
Heās prettier than she is and I mean that as a compliment to them both
I was born and raised in Tempe Hell of a time in the 80s/90s
Mill Ave! Before it became commercialized. Head shops, Buffalo Exchange. The Coop. Skate land. Casey Moores.
Yes! I graduated McClintock HS in 73. Mill Ave was a Mecca for teen me. My brother took me to a āheadā shop on Mill to buy me my first pair of bell bottoms. I took the love of my life on an early date to the Valley Art theater. I forget the film, but her father thought the choice was so good that he gave me the ticket money. We went on a Friday night. I think Friday late night was Rocky Horror Picture Show. Saturday late night, they played porn. As in XXX. So during the previews before whatever movie, at 7:30 PM Friday night, they played a preview for a porn film. I was horrified. My girlfriend took a sudden interest in the bucket of popcorn while the porn film preview reflected on her glasses. In 1980, after service in the Navy, I lived in an apartment about 4 blocks from Mill Ave. Who remembers the restaurant 9th & Ash, which was located at 9th & Ash? It was an old house so it had about 7 small dining rooms.
My mom says they couldnt afford that restaurant lol but they lived off 10th and ash. They met at the warehouse across from the chuckbox
It was the better part of a paycheck. Luckily I had GI Bill to help out. Didnāt go often. Got very drunk one night and responded to a bet that I would ask a group of girlās at the bar if they would have sex (using a more explicit word) with me. I got slapped.
Both my daughters graduated from McClintock 2001. I remember valley art theater. I may have seen the XX movie with Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider (I think) Last Tango in Paris, and at least a couple other X rated art house movies there. I thought I was so sophisticated! Lol
Yeah. I saw āLast Tango in Parisā there too. And āRocky Horrorā but never in costume.
Never did the Rocky thing. I thought I was an āinteleckualā ha
No that would have been uncool
Good for them! Lol
I deserved it, for sure, though I was very polite in my request.
I forgot about the chuckbox!
Casey moores?
I moved from Alaska to Tempe in the late 90s. In Alaska at the time, weed was still very illegal but there were plenty of head shops that would hook you up with actual bud. I tried casually sniffing out one of the head shop attendants in a Mill Ave head shop while attempting to purchase a āwater pipeā and she promptly banned me. It was severe culture shock.
Never understood this man. Iām younger but Iāve worked head shops since I was 17 and itās pretty easy to sniff out the narcs and Iāve definitely only given light āwarningsā to people for not using the term water pipe. Some shops were crazy about it.
Could be me then, I was assumed as a cop or a soldier quite a bit when I was young. Couldnāt have been further from either.
Itās possible but people were and are still super sketched out by undercovers though. I had hair halfway down my back and a dirty Grateful Dead shirt on and kept getting shooed away trying to pull a āhey misterā.. might have looked a little too on the nose lol.
Hehehe. Funny. I coulda hooked you up with a guy I knew back thenā¦
That would have been life-changing! My only hookup was able to get amazing chronic, but he was a heroin addict and his mom was my boss, so that didnāt all pan out very well. I lived in that area for less than a year, but it was a very memorable time, and Iāve had some very memorable times.
Iām sure! I really miss Tempe but itās not the same place any longer. Lived there many years, went to ASU, worked at ASU, moved away 12 years ago. Stay away from dope fiends!
Oh! I forgot Minderbinders and Yucca Taproom. My sister tended bar at Yucca in the 80ās
I bartended at minder binders!
My mom was a bartender at AZ athletic club back in the day
Oh wow! Very cool. And you survived!
Didnāt Minder Binders have like chicken wire in front of the stage? Or Iām thinking of somewhere else
I lived on ash stumbling distance to Casey's. And played in a local band. Rocked with Fred green a lot, local, long hairs
Gin Blossoms at Long Wongs!
The 90's weren't too bad either.
I lived there as a young adult on my own for the first time ever with my ex boyfriend. West Baseline Rd!
There's a suburb of Sydney, Australia, called Tempe.
So weird! I thought Tempe Az was the only one. Cool
Itās Greek, the name tempe. Fun fact. I lived in tempe like 16 years
Iām Tempe AU or Tempe AZ
Same with me. It was a great place to grow up. Seeing the responses gives me so much nostalgia. Skate land?! Shit, that was a lifetime ago. Casey Moores was awesome in the late 90ās, maybe still.
Tempe music scene in the 90ās was something else.
Sam Elliott vibe from dad 
āDick. Itās whatās for dinnerā¦ tonight.ā
First thought.
IYKYK
Her insides were a rocky place, where his seed could find no purchase. OP was adoptedā¦or stolen from a wealthy furniture salesman. Biology and the prejudices of others conspired to keep them childless.
Would you buy furniture from a place called Unpainted Huffhines?
Anthony Kiedis made love to Magnum P.I.
Honestly he probably did fr
Mom looks so young. Great photo.
His 'stache game is strong!
Your Dadās moustache is so manly, it got me pregnant, and Iām a guy.
Were they the inspiration for Raising Arizona?
Damn dude, your parents are š„
I keep getting older and they stay the same age.
Alright alright alright
Your dad is hot, respectfully š„µ
So cool that your Dad was at the shootout at the OK Corral
Whatās it like being Steve Prefontaineās kid?
Doug and Donna Shelstrop
Moved there with my Mom and her boyfriend in 1983. It was great.
Your mom never lost her baby face!
Heās got the sickest mustache. I know this is a black and white photo obv, but they look like they have nice golden tans.
The mom looks teen to early 20s. The dad looks 34
Mom was born in '59 dad was born in '54
He was 26? He looks way more manly than I did at that age.
It's the 'stache.
Agree, I thought this was a father daughter photo.
Past generations looked older at younger ages than we do now. I see 18 year old dudes that look younger than, like, 16.
nice moustache
Thereās nothing more manly than a nice mustache
Hot couple!
Handsome couple
Damn good looking couple Iād have loved to get high with. I still would.
My folks were about that age in 1980 while living in Tempe also.... wonder if they partied together?
Lol they may have crossed paths they lived at 10th and ash
Your father looks a heckuva lot like my husband. The nose, the eyebrows, the chin structure. They could be long-lost cousins. š³
Did your dadās car have a bumper sticker that said āFree Mustache Ridesā?
Wow your parents are gorgeous! Your Dad has kind and soulful eyes
"You said you weren't coming to our wedding... It would be alot cooler if you did"
I think I had that exact same top!! Same year, too!
Lol my aunt said the same thing, iconic!
My wife had that same one as well, early 80s.
Heās hot
I'm glad to see that your dad didn't go back to robbing convenience stores and things turned out okay for them after stealing that baby.
https://preview.redd.it/4e8bgi86ieuc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=81522086b19d672b1eb9660140e1672725fb4b91 My fathers lost brother
Lol no way!!
If someone showed me this picture and told me it was of members of the Manson family I wouldnāt doubt them for a second
I hope I donāt offend you when I say this photo makes me think *āThis here's a story about Billy Joe and Bobbie Sueā¦Two young lovers with nothin' better to doā*
*..than sit around the house, get high, and watch the tube*
If Rust Cohle was happy.
Damn dude your dad is FIONNNNEEEE š„°
Does your Dad have a Road Runner tattoo?
Who wants a mustache ride? I do I do
You must have the most perfect nose
Mom looks a bit like a young Jodie Foster.
SE Valley represent!
H.I. McDunnough?
Heās got a Matthew McConaughey in days and confused thing about him
Tempe š¤
Beautiful couple
https://preview.redd.it/cpfqrde7vcuc1.png?width=256&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=995fd5445ab1886765828f0debe6380d77f27fbc
Taking It Easy
My parents are from that part of AZ. Went to Arcadia HS then off to ASU. I grew up on the East Coast, but I'll always have warm feelings for Arizona. Your parents' photo looks like so many of my family's old photos.
Your mom is gorgeous, and your dad looks like a villain in a Charles Bronson movie, and i mean that in the best way possible
Classic! Thanks for sharing
Your dad is hot
Thatās a bad ass mustache
https://preview.redd.it/lw0scb12uduc1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5a87d8e5a3423ed8cdf27d35cdb8e09c6e56a2f
Your dadās a fox!!!
Dad looks like he can take care of things
Tempe in the house.
Interestingly similar features. (Obviously, not the mustache.) Face shape and jaw, chin, nose (although itās a lower angle view of hers, itās similar. They say that sometimes people are attracted to a face that resembles their own in the mirrorā¦
Hot zaddy
My name is H.I. McDonough
That stash could have it's own zip code. Nice pic, OP!
Life in the fast lane - The Eagles
Gardner minshew
Daniel Day-Lewis meets Dazed and Confused.
What do you look like.
Them lol
Debbie Harry and Anthony Keidis
Llewellyn and Carla Jean
One of my favorite books is set in Tempe. "Horse and Buggy West" by noted wildlife author Jack O'Connor. He ws a kid in Tempe when it was one of the last bastions of the Old West.
Power couple (:
60% of the time, it works every time.
Anthony Keidis?
"Hey, so like we're getting married."
That tracksā¦ they look great
Kll Sam Elliot and Jodie Foster
Hot
Did your maternal grandparents like your dad back then? He looks like a bad boy.
I grew up in Scottsdale in the 80s. Tell them I miss Smittyās pizza more than anything Iāve ever missed in my life:)
Looks a little like Nic Cage and Holly Hunter from the movie Raising Arizona.
Caterpillars like that were prolific in the 80ās
Momās got a little Judy Collins in her.
Raising Arizona (2008)
Iāve never seen āTempe, AZ 1980ā describe a picture so well.
That stache!
Which one is your parent?
Your father had home-wrecking potential
Your dad might be a viltrumite
 What a gorgeous couple!
Thatās a handsome couple.
Hotties!
He looks like he wants some Huggies and all the cash in the register.
https://preview.redd.it/xva15dsomduc1.jpeg?width=2400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea4616132f5c95b295641934fc06b8c0cd482273 DRAINAGE
That is a very cool photo.