Jacob, I just want u to know I showed my wife this video later tonight....and it inspired me to go through SO many of my Mom's old albums - it was so lovely and cathartic. 💜 reminded me what I had to be thankful for.
Good morning Jacob those photo albums are down memories lane for you, thanks for sharing this with us today. It looks awesome to see you as a kid and getting older. You still look the same as when you were a baby, you were cute. 📸👍🤓 Thanks for sharing the life you had grown up.😊
When he said, "I don't feel like the first picture looks like me," my brain automatically filled in the hat, glasses, and mutton chops and said, "Yep-- it's him." 😀
Yes, that was Kings Island. Eifel Tower reflection in the "restaurant" door was the giveaway. Kings Island was built by Taft Broadcasting, who owned Hanna Barbera at the time. The kid's area was called "The Happy Land of Hanna Barbera" It's Planet Snoopy now under Cedar Fair.
Yeah, that makes sense. Taft Broadcasting also built Canada's Wonderland. We had a section of the park called Hanna Barbera Land which is now Planet Snoopy.
I ate at that restaurant a few times around the time the photo was taken. It was on the second floor. I think most people didn't notice it. I had a season pass and went to the park many times. It was easy to miss, the windows were heavily tinted.
I really enjoyed this video. I was born in 75 but watching your video took me back to my childhood too. You can tell your family just adored you and you looked like you had such a happy childhood.
Good morning Jacob, it looks like you were a very cute kid and you had a very loving parents and a loving family with a lot of support you take care and be safe. Thank you for sharing.❤🤠
the photo of you with the E.T. lunchbox, to me, is the quintessential embodiment of the 80's! it's amazing how you have all of these photos to look back on, thank you for sharing them with us as well ❤️
Hi Jacob! Omg thank you so much for sharing your photos! Your baby pictures are so beautiful! So adorable! Looks like you had a great childhood. My mom didn’t take us to so many places when I was a child, just Coney Island a few times and six flags GA, a couple of times. And yes Flintstones and Scooby Doo is Hanna Barbara
"I think this is the same Santa in every picture." Middle-aged, heavy set, red suit, white beard, it seems to check out. Jacob, I think you're on to something. Love these flashback photos!
That was awesome...so many parallels from my own childhood as I'm only about four years younger than u. It was neat- and special you were willing to share that with us 🤟
Good morning Jacob. I hope you and your family had the BEST Thanksgiving! Also, thank you for sharing your photo memories with us this morning. I am wishing you and your family the best of health. After watching your previous video (Post Thanksgiving Walk in the Town I Grew Up In...) and hearing about your mother and stepfather having a hard time this year with their health. I am soo sorry to hear that. You're not alone, man. For many years now, my mother and (especially) my older sister has not been in the best of health. And believe me... It's not a happy or bright experience. However, when days are not that happy or bright. It's positive people like you with fun/adventurous videos that cheer up the day. So, THANK YOU TONS! Keep up the great work Jacob! Furthermore, my family and I can not wait for more fun/adventurous content. You and your family have a GREAT day!
Hi Jacob ❤ I just wanted to share that at 18 yrs old my oldest son was born in 1981. I can relate to so many of these beautiful photos. Thank you so much for sharing. ✌️❤️🙂
I remember watching the kids try to slide down a metal slide one time and the kids would get stuck and have to scooch to the bottom .I took some Rain Dance car wax and waxed the slide .The kids were going down that slide like Greased lightening ..They were Breaking the sound Barrier
Aw baby Jacob how cute. Thank you for sharing family picture it kinda took me back I loved E T mine had a jug with it good times. Love gourmet videos thanks you for share
Wow!!!! These pictures were great. You were such a cute little guy. That Chewbacca cake was everything 😅 Reminds me of growing up in the sweet sweet 80’s. Now I need to go to my parents house and break out the old photo albums. Thanks so much for sharing!!!
What an awesome video. It’s crazy how many photos we take today compared to then. I still love Lego lol 😂 I’ve got pictures from Kings Island too. Funny story. I got a new camera for the trip. It turned out to be one of those that added a character to the corner of your photos but we didn’t know that. All those photos have little Hulk Hogans in the corner lol 😂 oh the Beetlejuice show was awesome. I saw that back in the 90s. Thanks for sharing these memories.
I lived in Crown Point and we used to go to Celebration Station for all kids party. I believe it became like a wall paper store. Great memories for my youngest brother and then my kids. One day it was just gone!!
Hey Jacob, Can I suggest something? Talk to your Mom about removing the pictures from the acidic pages. If she doesn't, the pages will eat through the pictures. She can get some acid free paper and acid free page protectors to create new albums in binders and label the binders. I am a Genealogist and I do this all the time. It would be sad to lose pictures to the acid from the pages. What wonderful pictures and memories :)
i just bought a big plastic bin full of little bins. It was touted in the store as a photo organizing system. No paper, acidic or otherwise. Did I do good, or should I return it? Thanks!
@@maryblaufuss7533 I always put my photos on acid free cardstock paper which comes in various colors in size 8.5x11. I get acid free photo corners/tabs and acid free page protectors. Put the photos on the pages using the photo corners and then you can write on the pages around the pictures, etc. and slip the page into the page protector and into a binder. Then I go to WORD and I type (family name) photos or whatever you want to name it, print it and slip it into the front cover of the binder. This helps save the pictures from being eaten by acid. Storing them in containers is a temporary solution but that can even damage them eventually because the acid starts coming out of the pictures and they will start sticking to one another.
I will say there were many instances where you told us what years you at certain places and I could tell you I was at the same places at the same year, (although most certainly not at the same time) but your childhood coincidentally was very much parallel to mine. All those places were very much of my childhood as well( though my pizza parties were at Showbiz) I just thought I would comment how much I loved this video because it took me down my own childhood as a kid. Btw you and your siblings were adorable children. So again thanks for sharing❤
Great photos. My mom was not a photo album keeper, i kept allot of my family photos in albums but my sister kept them like your mom did, so nicely organized. I think you have a gentle, honest and careing look about you in all your photos. Thanks for sharing this glimpse into your past.
Good to see your your childhood photos there Jacob i guess it takes you back to them times as a young boy with some happy memories & reminiscing those days from the past 👍
Thank you jacob for sharing your life with us. I feel soo honoured ❤. I do remember the metal slide 😂 it was brutal especially in the hot weather. You should recreate those picture especially in the disney park 🎉
OMG Jacob you were an adorable child!! You had a lot of awesome toys! The lunch box,I wish I had one of those! I absolutely loved this video! I watch your videos every day! Keep up the great work!👍
My son was also born in 1980 he had all the same toys from Heman to my pet monster...kids grew up in Orland Park I'll. So we went to the same amusement parks that Zoo you were asking about is old Brookfield I also made all him and his little sisters halloween costumes...such nice memories almost the same as ours 😊
wow loved this video idea. so cool to see that everyone went through growing and had their own experiences. loved the stories, would be cool to see you going back to those places and taking picture in the same spots!
I really enjoyed seeing your photos. I’m a couple years older than you, but it seems growing up in the ‘80’s we shared quite a lot of similar life events. I think that’s neat. Best era to grow up in. You were a really cute kid. What happened ? (👈🏻A joke…people say the same to me😄). Loved seeing how your love for monsters and roadside attractions developed. Totally remember the my pet monster stuffed toy. The ‘80’s were so much FUN!!! Thanks for sharing your memories.
1980 the year I graduated High school I was 17. Your Mom looks young then she is probably only a few years older than me, in a couple of weeks I'll be 61. Where has the time gone I remember the 80's good music, lots of fun, things were so much simpler then. Thanks for sharing you had a great child hood, can see how it has made you the good man you are today.
Jacob, those are definitely photos from Kings Island. Yes, Scooby Doo was one of many Hanna Barbera characters in the park back then from the opening in 1972. Loved seeing them. I was in the Clown Band that performed in the park. We just had our 50th anniversary reunion in 2022.
Great video!! We were both born the same year so I can TOTALLY relate to all of these photos. It's as if I'm seeing my own childhood in all these photos. 👍🏻
Jacob's mom (as well as some other family members) was a guest star in a Carpetbagger video last summer. Wasn't that the park with the ride that swings you out over a canyon? The one that anyone would have to be a masochist to actually go on? But, I digress. Jacob's mom is still a beauty. A lot of people pointed that out.
Oh... that old school playground equipment! So fun, but always the chance of tetanus. Or the metal scorching your skin on a hot summer day.😆 Memories!🤗❤️❤️
Still have mine I need to see what condition they're in and do me a book loved seeing this Jacob of your childhood so cool to know places you've been and memories made that you can cherish and keep rest of your life.
I am the same age so a lot of this feels nostalgic! The fiberglass elephant is at Kings Island, it was in a fountain and sprayed water out of its trunk. The Scooby and Fred Flintstone stuff was from there too, in Hanna Barbera Land. The Smurf dark ride was a favorite as we always went in July the few times we went and it was cool inside. I also remember the blue spinning ride at McDonald's (which I thought looked like a blue hamburger) and I remember spinning it and spinning it with my brother inside and he tossed cookies in my Grandma's Cadillac, which made both of us unpopular that day. Some of the carousel pics could have been Indianapolis Children's museum as they have an indoor carousel.
Very nostalgic ❤ thanks for sharing your memories with us! The Kodak commercial song comes to mind, 🎶 Good morning yesterday, you wake up and time has slipped away, and suddenly it's hard to find the memories you left behind, do you remember the times of your life 🎶 ❤ I made a family photo video with that song
I was born in '92 and have my own photos with my mom in front of that blue elephant fountain! (I see other commenters confirmed for you that it was at Kings Island). I also remember riding the tiny cars and Flintstones bumper cars. Between the time of the Smurfs dark ride and Boo Blasters, there was an excellent dark ride in that building called Phantom Theatre. It operated from 1992-2002 and is one of my favorite memories of the park. I think it's exactly the kind of dark ride you would have loved! There is video footage on RUclips. Anyway, thanks for showing us these wonderful memories. I especially love all of your Halloween costumes! I think the 80's and 90's were probably the best decades for kids to grow up in.
Jacob, you talked about social anxiety and being scared to call people. That is me my whole life. I'm still scared to call places. I don't like contact sometimes, either. When something small happens, it automatically becomes the end of the world. It is the worst outcome right off hand, and it makes me panic. I asked my mom if I was slower than other kids, and she said I just had emotional problems. Have had several therapists in my life. Obsessive compulsive at times. I can't comprehend money and numbers and time very well. I admire you for your courage. Be safe and enjoy your family.
I think you may have visited Indianapolis Union Station in the pic with the small carousel. The pic with the large cream colored building is the Indy Zoo. Also the carousel ride at the Indy Children's Museum!
The sheer volume of photos of your childhood shows you were adored by your parents.
Indeed
Thank you Jacob for allowing us to walk down memory lane with you it was so enjoyable!
It sure was!🤗
This was fun. Mama Carpetbagger was a stunner!
Did you ever go to Fantasy Farm or Americana they were both on the way to Kings island, I live in Ohio
Jacob, I just want u to know I showed my wife this video later tonight....and it inspired me to go through SO many of my Mom's old albums - it was so lovely and cathartic. 💜 reminded me what I had to be thankful for.
Good morning Jacob those photo albums are down memories lane for you, thanks for sharing this with us today. It looks awesome to see you as a kid and getting older. You still look the same as when you were a baby, you were cute. 📸👍🤓 Thanks for sharing the life you had grown up.😊
When he said, "I don't feel like the first picture looks like me," my brain automatically filled in the hat, glasses, and mutton chops and said, "Yep-- it's him." 😀
@@BennyLlama39 yap that's funny, when you think about it.😁
Yes, that was Kings Island. Eifel Tower reflection in the "restaurant" door was the giveaway. Kings Island was built by Taft Broadcasting, who owned Hanna Barbera at the time. The kid's area was called "The Happy Land of Hanna Barbera" It's Planet Snoopy now under Cedar Fair.
Maybe he didn't know
Yeah, that makes sense. Taft Broadcasting also built Canada's Wonderland. We had a section of the park called Hanna Barbera Land which is now Planet Snoopy.
I ate at that restaurant a few times around the time the photo was taken. It was on the second floor. I think most people didn't notice it. I had a season pass and went to the park many times. It was easy to miss, the windows were heavily tinted.
Wow! Such a cutie pie baby, darling kid, and a handsome young man. Thanks for sharing, Jacob! You're 14kt gold. ❤😊
I know! What happened? 😂😂😂 Kidding.
I guess everything came full circle. Jacob went from adorable to handsome, then back again to adorable. ☺
This was so fun to watch! Maybe an adventure revisiting some of these places from your childhood? Would be interesting to see how places have changed❤
your pfp made me double take
You are very lucky that your mom organized all your photos into albums. Wow, you sure had some awesome birthday and Christmas gifts.
Being a kid in the 80's was so amazing!
It really was! 😊
So was being a teen! 🎉❤
I really enjoyed this video.
I was born in 75 but watching your video took me back to my childhood too.
You can tell your family just adored you and you looked like you had such a happy childhood.
Awesome photos! I was born the same year as you. The dog puppet was called a Wrinkles. I still have mine. One of my favorites from back in the day.
I still have my Wrinkles too, and my favourite plushy from when I was a kid; a plush dog I named sparky.
I had a Wrinkles and I think my brother had one.
Good morning Jacob, it looks like you were a very cute kid and you had a very loving parents and a loving family with a lot of support you take care and be safe. Thank you for sharing.❤🤠
the photo of you with the E.T. lunchbox, to me, is the quintessential embodiment of the 80's! it's amazing how you have all of these photos to look back on, thank you for sharing them with us as well ❤️
your mom is beautiful, Jacob. thank you for sharing this part of your life with us. i need to finish watching later but i love this :)
OF COURSE it’s the same Santa Jacob! There’s only one Santa Claus!
Such a joy to travel through your childhood life Thankyou Jacob for sharing little Carpet Bagger with us awwwwwwwww
Little Carpet Bagger, Awwwwww how sweet!
I LOVE photo albums! Thank you for sharing with us!
❤ thank you for sharing this with us...
Hi Jacob! Omg thank you so much for sharing your photos! Your baby pictures are so beautiful! So adorable! Looks like you had a great childhood. My mom didn’t take us to so many places when I was a child, just Coney Island a few times and six flags GA, a couple of times. And yes Flintstones and Scooby Doo is Hanna Barbara
Awww so glad you had a loving family growing up
Thanks for sharing. You were a cutie pie baby. Nice to see your evolution to teenager.
This channel just keeps giving what a treat. ❤ I am just like your Mum I have all our kids lives catalogued.
"I think this is the same Santa in every picture." Middle-aged, heavy set, red suit, white beard, it seems to check out. Jacob, I think you're on to something. Love these flashback photos!
LOL! 😆
Thank you for sharing these amazing memories with us! Keep being you ❤
I was born in St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, MI. You were a cute baby! Great content today!
Thanks for sharing. I love looking back at old photos especially when I’m only two years older than you and see the same type of pics. Classic.
Wow… you had a really awesome childhood. I definitely did not get to have so many experiences and go so many places. That’s awesome.
Thank you for sharing your childhood memories
Thanks for this Jacob. It was awesome to see you in the "olden days" ;-)
That was awesome...so many parallels from my own childhood as I'm only about four years younger than u. It was neat- and special you were willing to share that with us 🤟
Good morning Jacob. I hope you and your family had the BEST Thanksgiving! Also, thank you for sharing your photo memories with us this morning. I am wishing you and your family the best of health. After watching your previous video (Post Thanksgiving Walk in the Town I Grew Up In...) and hearing about your mother and stepfather having a hard time this year with their health. I am soo sorry to hear that. You're not alone, man. For many years now, my mother and (especially) my older sister has not been in the best of health. And believe me... It's not a happy or bright experience. However, when days are not that happy or bright. It's positive people like you with fun/adventurous videos that cheer up the day. So, THANK YOU TONS! Keep up the great work Jacob! Furthermore, my family and I can not wait for more fun/adventurous content. You and your family have a GREAT day!
A lot of wonderful memories, Jacob.
Its easy to see where you're love for theme parks came from.
Thank you for sharing your past with us 😊
Hi Jacob ❤ I just wanted to share that at 18 yrs old my oldest son was born in 1981. I can relate to so many of these beautiful photos. Thank you so much for sharing. ✌️❤️🙂
I remember watching the kids try to slide down a metal slide one time and the kids would get stuck and have to scooch to the bottom .I took some Rain Dance car wax and waxed the slide .The kids were going down that slide like Greased lightening ..They were Breaking the sound Barrier
I love ALL of this Jacob! Thanks for sharing. ❤️
This was a great video. Thanks for sharing your memories.
Aw baby Jacob how cute. Thank you for sharing family picture it kinda took me back I loved E T mine had a jug with it good times. Love gourmet videos thanks you for share
Wow!!!! These pictures were great. You were such a cute little guy. That Chewbacca cake was everything 😅 Reminds me of growing up in the sweet sweet 80’s. Now I need to go to my parents house and break out the old photo albums. Thanks so much for sharing!!!
Thank you for sharing these family photos. You were such a cute young boy. Made me think a lot about my early years.
What an awesome video. It’s crazy how many photos we take today compared to then. I still love Lego lol 😂 I’ve got pictures from Kings Island too. Funny story. I got a new camera for the trip. It turned out to be one of those that added a character to the corner of your photos but we didn’t know that. All those photos have little Hulk Hogans in the corner lol 😂 oh the Beetlejuice show was awesome. I saw that back in the 90s. Thanks for sharing these memories.
I remember when they sold that camera in WWF magazine!
@@TheCarpetbaggerit was a funny surprise for sure lol but I loved Hogan so it was all good lol 😂
I lived in Crown Point and we used to go to Celebration Station for all kids party.
I believe it became like a wall paper store.
Great memories for my youngest brother and then my kids.
One day it was just gone!!
Hey Jacob, Can I suggest something? Talk to your Mom about removing the pictures from the acidic pages. If she doesn't, the pages will eat through the pictures. She can get some acid free paper and acid free page protectors to create new albums in binders and label the binders. I am a Genealogist and I do this all the time. It would be sad to lose pictures to the acid from the pages. What wonderful pictures and memories :)
Good call! When we know better, we do better! Need save those memories
i just bought a big plastic bin full of little bins. It was touted in the store as a photo organizing system. No paper, acidic or otherwise. Did I do good, or should I return it?
Thanks!
@@maryblaufuss7533 I always put my photos on acid free cardstock paper which comes in various colors in size 8.5x11. I get acid free photo corners/tabs and acid free page protectors. Put the photos on the pages using the photo corners and then you can write on the pages around the pictures, etc. and slip the page into the page protector and into a binder. Then I go to WORD and I type (family name) photos or whatever you want to name it, print it and slip it into the front cover of the binder. This helps save the pictures from being eaten by acid. Storing them in containers is a temporary solution but that can even damage them eventually because the acid starts coming out of the pictures and they will start sticking to one another.
you were so cute...cant wait to see more
Seeing your photos were really nice to see! Thanks for sharing ❤
Wow! I’ve been your fan since day 1 but I never knew our childhoods were so similar. You are the best! Thank you so much for sharing ❤
I will say there were many instances where you told us what years you at certain places and I could tell you I was at the same places at the same year, (although most certainly not at the same time) but your childhood coincidentally was very much parallel to mine. All those places were very much of my childhood as well( though my pizza parties were at Showbiz) I just thought I would comment how much I loved this video because it took me down my own childhood as a kid. Btw you and your siblings were adorable children. So again thanks for sharing❤
Great photos. My mom was not a photo album keeper, i kept allot of my family photos in albums but my sister kept them like your mom did, so nicely organized. I think you have a gentle, honest and careing look about you in all your photos. Thanks for sharing this glimpse into your past.
Thank you for sharing this it is so great that you are sharing this!!!! I love this ❤ !!!! :3
Thanks for sharing your childhood pics, Jake. Such a cutie pie!
Good to see your your childhood photos there Jacob i guess it takes you back to them times as a young boy with some happy memories & reminiscing those days from the past 👍
Thank you jacob for sharing your life with us. I feel soo honoured ❤. I do remember the metal slide 😂 it was brutal especially in the hot weather. You should recreate those picture especially in the disney park 🎉
Wonderful video Jacob thank you for sharing your memories take care of my friend and as always safe travels.
The theme park was Kings Island and the Zoo was the Cincinnati Zoo inside the elephant house.
OMG Jacob you were an adorable child!! You had a lot of awesome toys! The lunch box,I wish I had one of those! I absolutely loved this video! I watch your videos every day! Keep up the great work!👍
Wow so cute when you were oh so little ❤😊Thankyou for sharing such awesome pictures
That was AWESOME Jacob! Thank you for the trip down memory lane!
My son was also born in 1980 he had all the same toys from Heman to my pet monster...kids grew up in Orland Park I'll. So we went to the same amusement parks that Zoo you were asking about is old Brookfield I also made all him and his little sisters halloween costumes...such nice memories almost the same as ours 😊
wow loved this video idea. so cool to see that everyone went through growing and had their own experiences. loved the stories, would be cool to see you going back to those places and taking picture in the same spots!
I love it. Jacobs back at his mom's bunker.😀
Wonderful video sharing photos of you growing up. Thank you, Jacob. Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving.
I really enjoyed seeing your photos. I’m a couple years older than you, but it seems growing up in the ‘80’s we shared quite a lot of similar life events. I think that’s neat. Best era to grow up in. You were a really cute kid. What happened ? (👈🏻A joke…people say the same to me😄). Loved seeing how your love for monsters and roadside attractions developed. Totally remember the my pet monster stuffed toy. The ‘80’s were so much FUN!!! Thanks for sharing your memories.
I love old photo albums. looks like you got to do, and have a lot of nice things:)
1980 the year I graduated High school I was 17. Your Mom looks young then she is probably only a few years older than me, in a couple of weeks I'll be 61. Where has the time gone I remember the 80's good music, lots of fun, things were so much simpler then. Thanks for sharing you had a great child hood, can see how it has made you the good man you are today.
Thank you for sharing your family memories. This was a lot of fun. 😊
Very nice video Jacob. You are awesome
These personal videos are great, Jacob !! Really enjoying them !! 😊😊😊
Jacob, those are definitely photos from Kings Island. Yes, Scooby Doo was one of many Hanna Barbera characters in the park back then from the opening in 1972. Loved seeing them. I was in the Clown Band that performed in the park. We just had our 50th anniversary reunion in 2022.
90s Grunge long hair Carpetbagger! What a surprise!
This was awesome 👌 👏 👍🏼 thankyou for sharing .your throw back adventures 😊❤😊
Great video!! We were both born the same year so I can TOTALLY relate to all of these photos. It's as if I'm seeing my own childhood in all these photos. 👍🏻
You sure where one beautiful looking baby. Your mom sure was a looker back then.
Jacob's mom (as well as some other family members) was a guest star in a Carpetbagger video last summer. Wasn't that the park with the ride that swings you out over a canyon? The one that anyone would have to be a masochist to actually go on? But, I digress. Jacob's mom is still a beauty. A lot of people pointed that out.
Great show sir! Pretty awesome pictures! 😊
Very nice to see your childhood photos. Nice to get to know you a little bit better.
Oh... that old school playground equipment! So fun, but always the chance of tetanus. Or the metal scorching your skin on a hot summer day.😆 Memories!🤗❤️❤️
Good morning from Gatlinburg TN Mr Bagger 🏞️🌄🍁
What a happy and adorable Lil boy. Yes. Being an 80s kid was magical
Very cool! Thanks for sharing man!
I loved the witch decor on the door of the McDonald’s at your childhood bday party! I remember those decorations!
Thank you for showing your photos. Seeing life in the 80s growing up took me back to when I was a kid.
Still have mine I need to see what condition they're in and do me a book loved seeing this Jacob of your childhood so cool to know places you've been and memories made that you can cherish and keep rest of your life.
I am the same age so a lot of this feels nostalgic! The fiberglass elephant is at Kings Island, it was in a fountain and sprayed water out of its trunk. The Scooby and Fred Flintstone stuff was from there too, in Hanna Barbera Land. The Smurf dark ride was a favorite as we always went in July the few times we went and it was cool inside. I also remember the blue spinning ride at McDonald's (which I thought looked like a blue hamburger) and I remember spinning it and spinning it with my brother inside and he tossed cookies in my Grandma's Cadillac, which made both of us unpopular that day. Some of the carousel pics could have been Indianapolis Children's museum as they have an indoor carousel.
I love old pictures and memories! Thank you for sharing them with us, Carpetbagger!❤🥰🖼🕓💯🕰🧐🤗💓💖💘🙂💯💗💕
Thanks for sharing. I grew up in the 80s too. We went to Kings Dominion every summer. We had Smurf Mountain in the 80s. You rode a train.
The theme park definitely looks like Kings Island. Hanna-Barbera land.
What a sweet child you were. The child becomes the man 😀
One of my favorite things is looking through old photos! Really enjoyed seeing a glimpse into your life as a kid!
I really appreciated you sharing your memories with us. It was an honor and so comforting to watch.
Love the videos Jacob bless your heart
7:39 How old was Jacob in 1983?
I always sob when I go thru old albums. 😢 heartfelt ❤
Very nostalgic ❤ thanks for sharing your memories with us! The Kodak commercial song comes to mind, 🎶 Good morning yesterday, you wake up and time has slipped away, and suddenly it's hard to find the memories you left behind, do you remember the times of your life 🎶 ❤ I made a family photo video with that song
A Google image search of the elephant fountain shows it as Kings Island in Cincinnati OH.
I was born in '92 and have my own photos with my mom in front of that blue elephant fountain! (I see other commenters confirmed for you that it was at Kings Island). I also remember riding the tiny cars and Flintstones bumper cars. Between the time of the Smurfs dark ride and Boo Blasters, there was an excellent dark ride in that building called Phantom Theatre. It operated from 1992-2002 and is one of my favorite memories of the park. I think it's exactly the kind of dark ride you would have loved! There is video footage on RUclips. Anyway, thanks for showing us these wonderful memories. I especially love all of your Halloween costumes! I think the 80's and 90's were probably the best decades for kids to grow up in.
Your love for Cryptids came early 😂 ❤
Jenny's sign on the door was a pretty good caricature of you keeping people out while you filmed.
Jacob, you talked about social anxiety and being scared to call people. That is me my whole life. I'm still scared to call places. I don't like contact sometimes, either. When something small happens, it automatically becomes the end of the world. It is the worst outcome right off hand, and it makes me panic. I asked my mom if I was slower than other kids, and she said I just had emotional problems. Have had several therapists in my life. Obsessive compulsive at times. I can't comprehend money and numbers and time very well. I admire you for your courage. Be safe and enjoy your family.
I think you may have visited Indianapolis Union Station in the pic with the small carousel. The pic with the large cream colored building is the Indy Zoo. Also the carousel ride at the Indy Children's Museum!
Yea that's definitely the Indy Zoo
Thanks for sharing all these family pictures from your youth! Very interesting to watch!