Old pictures are the greatest!

One of the secretaries at work wanted us all to bring in old prom photos so we could laugh at each other. In looking through Mom & Dad's albums, I discovered a pic that is SO going to be part of my Christmas card - my niece has both a perm AND a New Kids on the Block sweatshirt! Now there's this craze, that I sadly missed. Why is it that black and white photos from the 50's (like my parents' high school pictures) look cool, but everything taken since then (say, my brother's 1973 first wedding) looks completely cheesy and dated about six months after it was taken?