Stories about those days.

The stories that people have about Jamie’s photos are a source of amazement.  Some are of the “that’s me and we were doing this” type of stories from Jamie’s friends. Some are the “I never met Jamie but this was taken on my birthday and it means a lot to me. And some are just stunningly moving one of a kind stories.

  • From Kay Barnhill on 08-22-85

    This was the day I was born. I love that he was being silly in this picture it’s so fitting. He definitely acomplished what he wanted to. I hope he can see how his work has brought so much joy to others in heaven!

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  • From Stacy Lynn Ivy-McCray on 12-18-79

    My mother was born on 12-18-1954. Although you don’t have that date in a Polaroid, or the date she died. I figured I would come to the first polaroid of December 18 and write a comment. My mother was diagnosed with stage 4a colon cancer on January 11, 2013. She died on November 24, 2016. Thanksgiving day. She was only a few weeks shy of living for 4 years with her diagnosis. I’m sorry Mr. Livingston died of cancer! My mom did also 😥

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  • From Stacy Lynn Ivy-McCray on 11-13-88

    The day my husband was born. These pictures are amazing!! I will keep coming back every time I think of a special date!

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  • From Stacy Lynn Ivy-McCray on 12-20-83

    The day I was born…love it!!❤

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  • From Eric Schwartzman on 11-12-95

    On this day I was married. I no longer am married. But my memories of that day are of her beauty, promise, family, friends and love. It was a good day. Still is. Harder now but always remember that day. This photo fits that day.

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  • From ALDEN on 02-26-90

    The day I was born

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  • From Kacie Faurot on 07-12-88

    This photo was taken on the day I was born. I love photography and wish that these polaroids were still around. Its often difficult for people to capture a truly genuine photo in the digital age when you can instantly see what the photo is and simply delete it and take another one until you’re happy with the result.

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  • From Morgan Davis on 04-03-88

    Very amazing feeling to be able to see what a complete strangers did the day you were born. Very cool.

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  • From Olivia on 12-28-89

    How cool a baby picture on my birthday 💕

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  • From Kim on 07-14-79

    I think I spot a pair of earth shoes!! They were all the fad around 1974/75? I had a pair when I was in 9th grade! I was always up on the latest fads and styles! Still am sort of.

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  • From Kim on 07-11-79

    Looks like he’s lighting a pipe which would of been right on par with the times.

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  • From Juliana on 04-26-97

    Such a beautiful photo. makes me smile

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  • From Kim on 10-17-93

    My daughter was born on this day at like 1:50 in the morn. She was supposed to be born on the 16th and she just missed it! She’s a beautiful young woman now and she moved out last Aug. to another state and I haven’t seen her since she left I miss her soooo much! I know she has her own life now but I wish she would move back here closer to me and her brother. I love her so much!

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  • From Kim on 10-01-93

    I’ve been divorced since 2008 and I can honestly say I sort of stopped living that year and haven’t really done anything since so I have really wasted a lot of years. I didn’t have a great childhood I was neglected a lot as a small child and we never had much. When I left home at 22 I knew I would have to work hard to have a good life and I did just that. My husband and I started our own business and we did great but a few years after he did something that totally ruined everything and I lost all respect for him. I had worked SO hard to get that business going and worked like a man to make it successful so I guess at that point in my life I kind of just gave up, I had been through too much, I just threw my hands up. My first husband cheated on me when our 2 children were only 2 and 3 years old. With my 2nd husband I really loved him and felt he loved me but he just didn’t appreciate all we had and all the hard work we put in to it as much as I did. It wasn’t an affair, It’s too long of a story to go into. I feel like I’m too old at this point in my life to meet someone else and honestly I don’t have the energy. I’ve wasted almost 9 years of my life. I’ve had a lot of very bad depression but at least I can get out of bed everyday now.

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  • From Kim on 08-17-93

    Jamie was SO good looking!! Dayummm!!

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  • From Lucas Gomes on 08-27-96

    I was born this day in Brazil.

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  • From Kim on 08-03-93

    That’s awesome Poppy! I was 33 years old & 7 mos.pregnant with my 2nd child the summer of ’93, my baby boy was 17 mos. old at the time in hot Texas! I didn’t know that I was having a girl at this time because I always let nature takes it’s place and never found out before hand what sex my child would be, you’re not supposed to know!

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  • From José Roberto Criado on 08-07-83

    I was born that day in Brazil. Very exciting and moving the story that the photos represent.

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  • From Kim on 05-31-93

    When our jeans were ripped from wear not ripped on purpose for fashion!

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  • From Kim on 03-04-92

    On this day I gave birth to my first child, a son, he is almost 25 years old and it was one of the best days of my life. He was almost 3 wks over due before the Dr. finally decided to induce me and he put me through the worst pain imaginable not allowing me to get an epidural until almost time to push! His umbilical cord was wrapped around his shoulder and his breathing was compromised and the Dr. had to cut me and pull my baby out with forceps. I had 42 stitches and had to use a “donut” pillow to sit on for weeks. Obviously should have been a C-section that Dr. was not with it, something was wrong with him to make me and my baby suffer like that.

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  • From Joe on 10-15-84

    Same here! How cool!

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  • From Joe on 10-16-84

    This is the day I was born.

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  • From CSantos157 on 03-28-90

    I was born on this day in Humacao, a city on the east coast of Puerto Rico. 🇵🇷🌴

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  • From Kim on 10-17-97

    This day in 1997 my baby girl turned 4 years old and we had a big party for her the next day on Saturday. I love her so much she’s 23 now soon to be 24. She moved to Ky. last Aug. and I miss her so much I wish she’d move back.

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  • From Kim on 08-30-97

    I was 37 at the time and I too remember this night while watching SNL a ticker was going across the bottom of the show reading that Princess Diana had died, I seriously thought it was part of a skit on SNL I could NOT believe it!

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  • From Kim on 08-19-97

    I did this with my mother and I wish I would have held her hand or something, we always tried to act like it was not a big deal, I didn’t want her to think it was hopeless and it wasn’t she lived another 12 years after her treatments for stage 4 colon cancer. I miss my mom so much, I wish I could do it over.

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  • From Kim on 08-11-97

    Wow, he’s letting us know that that one pill alone cost 26.89 and this is in 1997! It’s still going on today, Jamie.

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  • From Kim on 07-18-97

    I notice pills or vitamins on the table as well as food that it looks like he couldn’t finish. These pics are amazing and I appreciate every single one of them! Thank you Jamie wherever you may be you were way before the times as this is like Instagram!

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  • From Kim on 07-09-97

    Dang, that’s a lot of weed! Or is it lettuce or spinach? lol

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  • From Kim on 06-12-97

    Look at the kid’s pants, that was a sign of the times the big baggie pants/shorts pulled down under their rear ends!

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  • From Kim on 06-11-97

    I was 37 that year and my life was so busy at that time as my children were just 4 and 5 years old. I was divorced from their father and was a working single mom it was SO hard for me bc I was also devastated from their father cheating on me. I would meet my 2nd husband in this year in November we were together for 11 years.

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  • From Kim on 06-09-97

    Oh my Cynthia I couldn’t imagine you losing your mother at 7. So sorry that you lost your mother at such a young age. I was lucky, I had my mom for 54 years, she died at 81 years old 3 years ago and I miss her so much she never really knew how truly beautiful she was, physically and in her heart.

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  • From madeleinethealien on 09-09-96

    I was born this day

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  • From Kim on 05-28-97

    Oberlin, Ohio – Porch sitting when I was younger and I sure miss those days in the 70’s. We used to sit on the stoop when we’d go to Cleveland and visit my aunts and cousins.

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  • From Kim on 05-26-97

    Heather, Now that is sad, I am so sorry you lost your mother at such a young age. It just seems so unfair for you. My mother has been gone 3 years and she lost her mother when she was 11. God Bless you.

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  • From Kim on 05-21-97

    All of these photos tell a story for Jamie I’m sure, what surprises me while going through some of these photos is how all of these young people commenting just wanted to see the photo for the day they were born as if the whole world would have stopped on that day! Just strikes me funny, it’s all “me, me, me for some of our young generation now.

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  • From Kim on 04-13-97

    Maybe you two should meet!

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  • From Kim on 04-08-97

    Polaroids were invented in the 70’s and used a lot. It seemed like they had a comeback in the 90’s, still used today though

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  • From HEIDY on 05-18-80

    My birthday

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  • From Dave Ball on 10-30-90

    The day my son (2nd child) was born. It was a long labor for my wife. I probably felt like this photo looks…

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  • From Dave Ball on 11-19-83

    The day my first child was born. She’s married now with one child.

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  • From Dave Ball on 09-06-80

    My wedding day… I wonder what was going on in the photo?

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  • From Lorena Jacobson on 10-19-87

    The day I was born!

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  • From Lorena Jacobson on 10-20-87

    The day I was born !

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    • From Lorena Jacobson on 10-20-87

      Oops thought this was the 19 and now can’t delete the comment !

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  • From Lorena Jacobson on 09-16-87

    Ouch! What happened?

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  • From Gabriel on 04-07-97

    I was born on this day.

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  • From William Hodges on 06-13-91

    Me too! Ohhh put-put

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  • From Laurie on 07-19-93

    I was born this day too and also love cats!

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  • From Tiffany D. Thompson on 10-13-88

    :3 My date of birth~ <3 Thank you Jamie for the beautiful little pieces of history~

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  • From Clayton M Endicott on 02-11-85

    Jamie, I was born on this day. RIP

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