Awesome Parents Find Web Home
Web site myparentswereawesome.com becomes home for family pictures.
Oct. 27, 2009 — -- There are many of us out there who think fondly of our parents: They're Mom and Dad, they were our caregivers, they fed us, clothed us, bathed us, changed our dirty diapers, picked us up from school and they were there for our every little need. But were they ever "cool?"
Blogger Eliot Glazer is giving parents a chance to redeem themselves, showing us that Mom and Dad weren't always Mom and Dad -- that they were in fact once awesome.
The Brooklyn-based blogger started a Web site called myparentswereawesome.com, which solicits photo submissions of people's parents and grandparents from their halcyon days, looking hip, happening and awesome.
Glazer's mission statement, proudly displayed on the Web site, is simple: "Before the fanny packs and Andrea Bocelli concerts, your parents (and grand-parents) were once free-wheeling, fashion-forward and super awesome."
"I think people really like this site because it's like traveling back in time and having this voyeuristic experience." said Glazer. " It's the type of thing that everybody can relate to. Everybody has parents, almost everybody has pictures. Before you knew them as Mom and Dad -- the people who may have driven you around in vans, or bought you toys, or yelled at you -- they had so much going on!"
Started just two months ago, the Web site has received almost 1,000 photo submissions
"I think people just, you know, appreciate family and can really hold on to memory and are proud and eager to share it with other people as well. "
The site has a range of photos, many from the 1950s and '60s, several from the '30s and '40s, and some even older.
"There are couples that look like flower children, just kind of laying out on the grass and holding each other, just looking so in love, and so comfortable around other people their age," Glazer said. "It's easy to forget that they had that too. There are some photos where the subjects look like classic movie characters. Or characters right out of 'Mad Men,' with cigarettes and the outfit that's very '50s, film noir."
"Before they were Mom and Dad, they were hot!"
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