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October 27, 2009 |
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That Hair!
FOUND by Keith Kelley
in Pensacola, Florida
I found this Polaroid face down in the trunk of a car at the junk yard while looking for some parts. When I turned it over, all I could think was LOOK AT THAT HAIR! I graduated in 1984 and it appears that they went to the prom four years later and I wondered how we even thought that big hair was cool. No, I did not find the parts I was looking for; but, I got this fine photo.
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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...
It's not only the hair, it's the shiny satin dress. Honey, shiny stiff satin makes you look about 15 lbs heavier than you really are. Which is probably why Chad is holding Heather sideways to the camera, to make it clear she not *really* that heavy.
And in these prom pix, you need to have the date and event name on a sign in the background ... why? Because you dress like that every day and might forget just when the photo was taken??
They broke up two months later.
After attending Duke, he went on to work for AIG. She went to USF and eventually got her real estate license.
They had an uncomfortable encounter at their 10 year reunion. Both were a bit drunk. What happened was so embarrassing that neither could show their face at the 20 year reunion.
I think the parts Kieth was looking for are in the girl's hair!
I am gonna bet money he rented a Firebird to take her to the prom.
If you take out the word "Polaroid" from Kieth's description, it sounds like a prom disaster.
These are high school counselors. The students would never be caught dead looking like this.
Holiday!!!!!
Celebrate!!!!
He took little Suzie to the Junior Prom
Excitable boy, they all said
And he raped her and killed her, then he took her home
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy
After ten long years they let him out of the home
Excitable boy, they all said
And he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones
Excitable boy, they all said
Well, he's just an excitable boy
Any luck getting your parts out of the junk, or was there too much junk in the trunk?
HPD..that song..I know that song.....(your first post, not the second).
@fooch and @HPD: I'm relieved to find out that that is a song.
I can't say anything...it looks good together, a classic picture. Cheers!
Sing it Mr Zevon (HPD)
I miss Warren :( ....
@Fooch - Black Eyed Peas
What you gon' do with all that junk?
All that junk inside your trunk?
I'ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps (Check it out)
For the Warren Zevon fans -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eUsSXXc8wU
When this picture flashed onto the screen, I did a shocked double-take. I seriously thought this was my younger sister Teri! Same pouffy hair, same golden-bronze tan, same big, dazzling smile. But I know who she went to Prom with, and that's not the dude.
Did no one notice.. that guy is really CUTE, looks like Heath Ledger in 10 things I hate about you.
Tim in TN, they've had a 20-year reunion already?? Oh yeah, it's been more than two decades since 1988. Geezo.
And WHY is there an apostrophe after the year? 88' ??? It's supposed to be '88. You're supposed to put in an apostrophe where something has been taken out, for heaven's sake, and in this case it's the "19." And what a tacky backdrop. Huge letters reminding that it's the PROM (what else) and how about that fake lattice work. Geezo.
I thought the young lady was wearing a dress or harem pants with a bare midriff. But that's her date's hand on her waist. I really need to look closer at the pictures.
At first glance, he looked like Paul McCartney. Then I looked closer and saw Fred Travalena. The sign was likely made by students at the school, so I would not expect it to be 100% professional looking.
That's hair of which any good Jersey Girl could be PROUD.
It looks like her dress is too short. and is she wearing black granny boots? I love the colors of her dress, though- and it reminds me of all the prom/wedding party shoes I dyed to match back in the day when I worked for Thom McAn. (do shoe stores still do that?)
Clover, I agree.. the dude's cute. I LOVE the tux with tails... wonder if his cumberbund matched her dress. I hate wrist corsages.
Is there going to be a Found Magazine Prom this year? (LOL) xoxo
I think the date is 1968, not 1988. It looks like a 6 behind her hair, not an 8. Both of them have hairstyles that look more like 1968 than 1988. Yesterday I argued with my eyes, because I didn't think the dress looked 1960s. Then I asked my husband who graduated in 1968 (and went to the prom with his girlfriend Debbie - we still have the photos and Debbie's hair was REALLY BIG) if that looked like a prom dress from those times and he said it did. I think the guy's hand on her waist hides the style so you can't really tell what it looks like. Tuxes haven't changed, so that's not a reliable clue. My husband said he thought it unlikely there would be a mixed race couple in '68, but in the 1960s people were starting to break down the racial barriers, and couples of different races were starting to date more openly. If she's wearing granny boots, as Bored in the Clubhouse says, that's another indication it could be 1968. Granny boots and granny dresses were popular in the late '60s. Anyway, they are certainly a cute couple! They look radiantly happy.
..and those were the days, when I bought my shoes at Thom McAn. I remember the pair I bought there in 8th grade, just like Roberta Tollen's.
Your post and theory that it's 1968 not 1988 made me think of that song by Sweet, The Sixteens.
Where were you in '68
in '68, Julie was Johnny's date..
I didn't see them as a mixed race couple, Clove- just an eighties chick who fake-n-baked (or used QT: Quick Tan lotion- and LOTS of it-) to achieve that desirable glowing bronze color for prom.
You have a point- that number behind her looks more like a 6 than an 8.. but her bad perm big hair still says '80s to me.
Also, when I was a kid, my mom had a Polaroid camera, and the pictures it produced weren't like this one. The borders were narrower, and uniform around all four sides of the photo, rather than skinny around top, left, and right, and wide at the bottom (for journaling?) Also, if I remember correctly, the pics were rectangular back in the Land of Ago, rather than the square chunk of picture they evolved into later on. (all those delightful treasures in the Found Polaroid Book! --Davy & Co., soon's you're done with Found #7. I higly recommend a second Found Polaroid book! Want want, need need!)
But my scope of experience is limited to a very small handful of Polaroid pics (that darn film was always too expensive), and my memory might be faulty, so I could be completely off base. (I hope this all didn't sound like me tryna start a debate with you, Clover. y'know I luv ya)
(cursed tpyos)
polanoid.net
My first thought was that it said 68 not 88. Can't believe Clover was the first to spot that!
Square picture would be a 126 format or 6x6 cm (Rolleiflex) perhaps. Are we sure there's no clue on the back? Date? 'Kodak'?
Trying not to think about Carrie (the movie I mean)...
Everything about that couple screams 88.
Not 68.
I am an 80s Expert. Not to brag... ;)
Jonathan, it's definitely a Polaroid picture- the trademark white frame is visible around the pic. It almost blends in with the Found page, but it's there.
What alarms me about this is that the dude seems to have WAAAAY too many fingers!!
its 68.
No doubt about it, this is the '80s, not the '60s. That's an '80s dress, they both have '80s hair, she's got the '80s Jersey Girl fake tan, the whole hunter green with mauve decor of the sign is late '80s, not to mention no '60s prom photographer -- or chaperons -- would have let teens pose with their naughty bits so provocatively close.
And yes, dude has about four extra fingers. Must be a Love Canal/3 Mile Island '80s prom.
The 80's hair is back and it's currently being worn by everyone from established trendsetters to up-and-coming talent! You just have to wear it the right way.
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