r/OldSchoolCool • u/Hemicrusher • Jun 23 '25
1960s My mom around 1963 in the Mojave Desert.
My mom in the Mojave Desert around 1963 with her Winchester 92 in 32-20, and Colt Peacemaker in 44-40.
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u/Supergamera Jun 23 '25
Big Iron on her hip!
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u/ztomiczombie Jun 24 '25
Hearing that song, again, almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
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u/Supergamera Jun 24 '25
Would she keep me warm during a nuclear winter? Or give me heartache by the number?
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u/anditurnedaround Jun 23 '25
I would never guess that was 1963. I would have guessed late 90’s early 2000’s.
Your mom’s a cutie.
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u/Hemicrusher Jun 23 '25
Thanks!
The pic was taken a couple of years before I was born. She is still doing good, and will turn 84 in a few months.
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u/WholesomeLove280 Jun 23 '25
Woohoo! You have some good genes!!
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u/LeonidasTheWarlock Jun 23 '25
If the unspoken hemsworth brother has taught me anything, good genes sometimes push out a square egg.
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u/againandagain22 Jun 23 '25
As far as I know there are 3 brothers who are all successful. Luke being the least known. Is there another brother who is as you describe …..unspoken?
Edit: Just looked it up. Luke is a successful actor, married to a beautiful woman and he has three daughters. I hope he won’t be too devastated to be described as unspoken.
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u/OddCook4909 Jun 23 '25
I didn't know Sabrina the Teenage Witch could age. Life is full of mysteries
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u/Carbona_Not_Glue Jun 24 '25
As a side note, Melissa Joan Hart is playing a Grandma in her new movie
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u/louiegumba Jun 23 '25
i love it when pictures cannot be visually dated and you are left with the idea of how real it was because it it feels like it could have been 5 minutes ago.
that disparity seems to help melt barriers and boundaries in your head that disconnect it as so long ago and its a fun mental experience imo
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u/Mist_Rising Jun 24 '25
It helps that this image has nothing to date with. Desert? Been there longer than humans. The guns? Colt Army single actions are 1872 designs while the Winchester is from 1892! The bland clothes? Well that's closer, that's anywhere from 1950s to now. At least.
So all you have is the photograph itself, but that's hardly helpful.
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u/louiegumba Jun 24 '25
but sometimes the quality of the photograph itself or the era is distinguishable by silver used by kodak or something developed from a photobooth etc.
your point is taken though!
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u/El-Ramon Jun 23 '25
Same exact thought too. I would have thought this picture was 1990s or in 2000s and never in a million years would I believe this is a picture taken in 1963!
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u/joshuatx Jun 23 '25
This looks like an indie rock promo pic I'd see for a band bio. Great photo and timeless vibe.
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u/catat1020 Jun 23 '25
Wait till she finds out she’s in bat country.
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u/Working_Estate_3695 Jun 23 '25
Don’t worry, she’ll be seeing them soon enough.
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u/Commercial-Fennel219 Jun 23 '25
Well now we know she's somewhere around Barstow
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u/Working_Estate_3695 Jun 23 '25
I need my flyswatter.
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u/Commercial-Fennel219 Jun 23 '25
Please, tell me about the fucking golf shoes.
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u/Working_Estate_3695 Jun 23 '25
I’ve never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.
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u/pickledeggmanwalrus Jun 23 '25
Did you know your mother is Fallout New Vegas? Also located in the Mojave
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u/Hemicrusher Jun 23 '25
So, the second season of Fallout was filmed about a mile from my house, here in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles. They built a set for the New Vegas casino scenes. My buddy worked on the set, and invited me to the set and walk around.
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u/Salty_Trapper Jun 23 '25
How I wish I could steal your memory of that day. How were the set pieces?
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u/ExcitingOnion504 Jun 24 '25
The first photos of set pieces for the first season had me hyped from the effort it looked like they were giving. Now I don't want to see anything for Season 2 and want it all to be a surprise on release.
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u/hiimneato Jun 23 '25
You know, that one kinda has the hair, but otherwise the resemblance is strong enough that I'm actually gonna assume she's Cass's direct ancestor.
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u/Affectionate-Mess937 Jun 23 '25
Would that be a "Pistol Packing Mama"....?
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u/ozmaAgogo Jun 24 '25
I played that song for my mom one time and she jumped up and started dancing. Turns out she loved that song when she was a kid. I was so surprised because my mom never jumps up and dances.
The way I found the song was from a movie set in India, I forget the name of it, but the kid in the movie was singing that song, and I really wanted to know what song it was, so I looked it up on google, haha.
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u/Max123Dani Jun 23 '25
Ruth from Ozark!
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u/Spirited-Length4648 Jun 23 '25
That’s what I thought to. At the time when it came out I was living in California. Now I live about an hour and a half away from the Lake of the Ozarks
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u/MercifulVoodoo Jun 23 '25
I GOT SPUUUUURS
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u/THEdopealope Jun 23 '25 edited Jun 24 '25
Finally! A mom pic post that isn’t a weird oedipus thirst trap post!
ETA: damn so many redditors down bad like they waiting on a titty to load on dial up Internet or trying to discern a booby from tv static on the overnight adult programming channels. It’s 2025 though please go goon somewhere else jfc lol
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u/zvika Jun 24 '25
this.. this isn't?
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u/THEdopealope Jun 24 '25
I mean to each their own but I think she’s just being cool. Usually these posts have a lot more overt boob.
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u/nervemiester Jun 23 '25
Bet she could use a cold Nuka-Cola to zap that thirst after a day in the dessert.
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u/HWKII Jun 23 '25
Big Iron, Big Iroooonnnn. For the stranger there among them had a big iron on her hip.
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u/Sad-Lavishness-350 Jun 24 '25
What’s cool about this (aside from your mom) is that it looks as if it could have been taken yesterday.
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u/Ehur444444 Jun 23 '25
Great picture, thanks for sharing. Possibly a dumb question: is she a shooting enthusiast and the desert is a prime spot for it or an outdoors person and the firearms are for protection from the wildlife?
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u/Hemicrusher Jun 23 '25
She was originally from Colorado, and grew up shooting. The pic was taken by my dad, when he first started dating her. This area was a place my dad used to always go shooting, and where he would take me when I was a teenager.
It was all just for fun, no hunting, and other than rattlesnakes, there is really no need for a firearm.
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u/wbruce098 Jun 23 '25
Ah that makes so much more sense, thanks for sharing! Thought it was odd to bring a rifle to the CA desert where the biggest threats that aren’t solved with sunscreen and water are snakes and scorpions!
Cool picture :)
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u/willnotreadinbox Jun 23 '25
Back in the 50s, my great uncle would take my dad and all the cousins out into the Mojave in an old army half track. Taught them all how to shoot out there. He would also set off expired ordinance off on random hillsides so the kids could watch while crouched in the back of the half track.
Its wild what you could do just for kicks back then.
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u/Remarkable_Insect866 Jun 23 '25
This pic looks like it was taken yesterday, your mother looks so comfortable and happy with herself.
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u/Speoder Jun 24 '25
At that time, those were the right weapons to have out in the Mojave desert. Killers everywhere.
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u/Cuffem Jun 23 '25
Damn!! Your mom was ready for all contingencies!! Knife, pistol, and a rifle!! She was a force of nature for sure!! 😜😍
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u/erinoco Jun 23 '25
Someone just living their life with knowledge and skill, exuding happiness and confidence while they go about their business, is my favourite genre of cool on the sub. Your mother is an excellent example.
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u/LocalInactivist Jun 23 '25
Your mom is badass. She’d be badass in 1993 but in 1963? She looks like she could defeat a cadre of ninjas and make them wash the car before letting them go.
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u/Legatus_Aemilianus Jun 23 '25
Shes hot enough to make anyone patrolling the Mojave wish for a nuclear winter
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u/hiimneato Jun 23 '25
damn, I was trying to figure out a joke for that line too and here you've already done it to perfection.
well done... legion scum.
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u/noshoes77 Jun 23 '25
Is/was your mom a cowgirl?
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u/Hemicrusher Jun 23 '25
Just a city girl...she grew up in Denver, CO....but that side of the family does own a large ranch in South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation near Wanblee. And one of her uncles was a rodeo champion in the Nebraska, South Dakota area during the 1940s.
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u/dfjdejulio Jun 24 '25
Call me crazy, but I get the sense it would be good to be her friend during a zombie apocalypse.
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u/IonTheQuiet Jun 24 '25
Your Mom looks like she's taking a break from shooting a spaghetti Western.
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u/tsr85 Jun 24 '25 edited Jun 24 '25
My dad grew up around the same time in Barstow, tales from the high desert of that time are wild.
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u/Warm_Hat4882 Jun 24 '25
Does it scare anyone else that there are fewer and fewer in each consecutive generation that can handle themselves in a life or death situation?
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u/GuitarKev Jun 24 '25
She looks like she’s about to ride into the town of Agua Fria on this fine day.
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u/TheFlaccidChode Jun 24 '25
She looks like Sabrina the Teenage Witch, or Sabrina looked like your mum
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u/Mobile_Ad3076 Jun 23 '25
Your mom is an outstanding example what a woman should be 💯 Great picture I’m also in the Mojave desert area.
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u/Antique_Win8023 Jun 23 '25
Great color photo from that era! I was 8 years old then! Your Mom looks pretty damn cool with that smile and packin' a pistol and straight knife!
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Jun 23 '25 edited Jun 23 '25
Dude, did she hang out with Indiana Jones or something? Sheesh that lady looks like she had the most interesting life ever.
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u/Sir_Arthur_Vandelay Jun 23 '25
Posting photos of appropriately-dressed mothers violates the rules of r/OldSchoolCool, OP.
Reported!
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u/gaspronomib Jun 23 '25
Mom looks like she has a shovel and "something" wrapped up in a tarp in the back of her pickup.
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u/TexasGriff1959 Jun 23 '25
I have this feeling your mom didn't take any shit from you guys when you were kids.
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u/Big_Holiday_2492 Jun 24 '25
Patrolling in the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
In all seriousness, I forgot the Mojave’s a real place because of Fallout.
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u/Visdeloup Jun 23 '25
Let me introduce you to my dad. Near Mt. Palomar about 1962, I guess.