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June 02, 2009 |
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Piano Man, Part II
FOUND by Stan Merrell
in Gambier, OH
After poring through my Archives, I found the companion photo photo for "Piano Man," which was Find of the Day for Nov. 10, 2006.
This appears to be part of some play, where the young man in the previous photo was impressing the ladies with his piano chops. Here, he appears to be escorting one of the ladies to the prom.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
http://foundmagazine.com/find/1009
Finder's Blurb:
"I found this photo in the late 70s. It was in a box of papers that was being pitched out (we were cleaning up a practice space at Kenyon College). I've always wondered what character the Piano Guy was playing."
Wow.. nearly three years later...
Thanks for adding to the thrill and the mystery, Stan.
The marks above their heads are making me think dirty thoughts.
She's having some of the same ectoplasmic thoughts as the person with the teacup in yesterday's Find was having. Spooky,eh?
And him? He's been waiting all year to be able to pin her corsage right THERE.
Piano Man looks like he's got a horn coming out of his head, and the prom queen has ectoplasm. I was wondering why you said it seemed to be part of a play, this piece of the set looks more real, but the piano one does look like a set. I wonder what play it is.. where are these people today. I wonder if they even remember being in this play... so many questions, so few answers.
If this is a play (and I'm doubtful) these actors show a serious devotion to their craft sporting those hair-dos in the 1970s.
I was trying to think of something nice too say, but her dress just reminds me of shower curtains. Great desk though.
Could there *be* a more un-flattering gown? Topped only by that "matching" plaid evening bag. My eyes! My eyes!
The ectoplasm effect is a tearstain from when she got the photos back and realised just how awful the dress is. It makes her look cylindrical, and much heavier than she probably, in all fairness, actually is.
Does the photo on the wall at the extreme left edge of the Find look like Annette Funicello in Micky Mouse ears to anyone else?
@Terrie-Is-So-Very ... maybe the dress's curtain motif indicates that this is a high school stage production of 'Gone With the Wind'
Librarian, you have very good eyes! That does look like a Mouseketeer, though which one I cannot discern.
and the photo on the right looks like a large, shirtless, HAIRY man. (with moooooobs.)
Or maybe a close up shot of a golden retriever puppy.
So Uhhh.. Jason, James, Davy, Peter, David M, Arthur and everyone else.. you're coming for the GIGANTIC 9-9-09 B-Day Bash, right? RIGHT?
Reminds me of the movie "Pleasantville."
Wonder when they will be colored....
LOL @ Promqueen-- the colorization is already beginning- she's turning blue at her scalp! (and he thought it was an innocent peck on the cheek...)
Is he handing her severed bunny head? I thought only the pig got threatened today.
Freonz, the pic isn't FROM the '70s, it was merely FOUND in the '70s.
Steady hand, Piano Man, almost there. Steady...
or
Ah, the bygone formalities of date rape.
Jeff had been waiting since eighth grade to finally get a date. He finally got his chance when he realized his piano-playing impressed them. The next thing he knew, Margot was willing to go to the dance with him. He had never been so happy until he accidentally stuck her with a pin from her corsage.
@Basil
OMG that plaid dress, now imagine what it would do to your eyes if the picture is in color.
Sorry for that mental image
Are her hands on fire?
Declan escorted Rose to the MacTavish Whirl only after he helped her pin the Scottish lavender to her INSANELY TARTAN gown.
I am picturing red, electric blue, green, and yellow. I hope Declan at least got to first base.
Now we get to see Drew Carrie in his youth. Or maybe his dad. I see paranormal activity in this picture.
Stan, thanks for Finding this! I recognized the young man right away from your previous Find, and got a lil excited and then laughed when I read your blurb. This is just great!
@ Chrome: be there or be square!
Her mother slaved away on this prom dress/play wardrobe for days and days. She was forced to wear it many times!
The piano eventually moved on to a new love, but for years he often pleasured himself over the picture of girl in the long plaid dress.
My God, was it really that long ago? November 2006 I mean.
What is odd is that I just checked out the original Find (thanks for the link, Chromey) and I sure as hell remember commenting on it -- at length -- at the time, but my comments aren't there any more. Wass-a goin' on?
That's what I thought, Jonathan. But I think we're thinking of that blog I wrote last year. Piano man was supposed to be Clover's date. N'est-ce pas?
Well, my goodness gracious! I love that dress, plaid taffeta! But on second thought.. it DOES look shower curtain-ish. If it were mine, I'd hem it shorter. I wonder what's in the matching handbag?
Nightingale, I remember your party, but if I had a date with Piano Man, I do not remember it. But then.. my memories of that evening do tend to blend with the fog of time. It's all just a misty memory.
Whoever hung the picture in the corner must have been drinking some funny punch. I never heard of hanging a picture directly on a corner before.
...I just stumbled out of the time machine (more precisely, stumbled); missed the email alert that this made it as FOD this past June (I've had a very busy year, been a blur). So nice to see that the two photos have been receiving the feedback they deserve. I've often wondered about the "actors" in this staged melodrama; I suspect that some Kenyon archivist might find these in a campus publication from the late fifties/early sixties or a local newspaper...