May 21, 2008

Dressed to Kill
FOUND by Christie Kelly in Jacksonville, Florida
I was browsing a book in the hospice thrift store when this photo fell out. Strangely, it was found in a book about the Bermuda Triangle! It looks very old but is in excellent condition.
Lil Ol' Me
I hope he's going to the Found Ball. I wanna party with this dude!!
+ May 21, 2008 12:11 AM +
Night in gale
Yeah, he's dreamy....
+ May 21, 2008 12:23 AM +
Samantha in Lafayette, IN
He could pin a corsage on me any time.
+ May 21, 2008 12:36 AM +
the man behind the curtain in oz
I wish my prom date had looked this classy!
+ May 21, 2008 12:38 AM +
Jan in the closet looking at the old board games on the shelf, singing
"Mystery D-a-a-a-t-e, are you ready for your Mystery D-a-a-a-t-e?"

For the record, if anyone else remembers this jingle, the game belonged to my older (much older) sister, and her dreamboat turned out to be a dud. She should have slammed the little door...
+ May 21, 2008 01:11 AM +
Holly the Homemaker in Toronto

He looks like he's one of the band members from the 'Monkees'!
+ May 21, 2008 01:12 AM +
sarasara in tea and the midnight sun
Ah. He really is dreamy!
I bet he was a tender lover. I mean, what else is prom for?

oops. did i say/ type that?!
+ May 21, 2008 01:21 AM +
Camelia in Silicon Valley, Cali(f)
This is probably the first time anyone had seen him in a suit, at least at this height. (Probably grew 5" taller since the last time!) (last year!)

@ CLOVER - I did respond to your ??s on #1862.
+ May 21, 2008 02:26 AM +
Farmer in In The Dell
This guy made it big in TV, but was never really *seen* again, as his major role through his 20s was as Mayor McCheese in the McDonalds commercials; and pretty much after that he was Big Bird, until he developed a smack habit, became unreliable, and they sacked him.

I guess some women might consider that dreamy, but...
+ May 21, 2008 04:51 AM +
Librarian in the woodwork
His hair is currently lost in the Bermuda Triangle, along with that track star physique.

I'd go with early 1970's on the photo.

And what's that orange thing on the door down at knee level?
+ May 21, 2008 06:44 AM +
Toasty in DE
I must be old because I don't think it looks "very old". I guess I think of very old as something from 1900 or so...
+ May 21, 2008 07:09 AM +
Hi ho the dairy-o
...and then there's those of us who are hot for farmers.
+ May 21, 2008 07:46 AM +
Freonz freak in g hallucinations
Yeah, I was mentally singing the Mystry Date song and remembering the original (1960s) commercial when it came out. And then I read Jan's post about the "old" board game that belonged to her "older (much older)" sister. Jan, and I say this in a most loving way: bite me.

I concur with Librarian about the time frame. It definitely wasn't mid- to late-70s since the bow tie would have been large enough to looked like a mutant butterfly was attacking his neck. If it had been late 60s, a kid that clean cut would have had shorter hair. So, early 1970's it is.

As for the orange thing, it looks like a harmonica to me. A strange, floating harmonica. Perhaps his litte sister (Jan is that you?) just threw it at him?
+ May 21, 2008 07:51 AM +
Flargy in New Haven, CT
He's on his way to the Fish Under the Sea dance.
+ May 21, 2008 08:03 AM +
Turbo in the Thunderdome
The name is Bond. Doug Bond.
+ May 21, 2008 08:11 AM +
mona lisa sitt in on the dock of the bay, wastin time
This is the guy that whatshername from yesterday ended up with. She decided to go young, with not so much baggage. Trainable, you know?
+ May 21, 2008 08:30 AM +
Pepper in your nose
That's my prom date!
+ May 21, 2008 09:06 AM +
Paul in Maryland
Anybody think Mona and Pepper are the same. I think Mona has an alter ego (Pepper). They always seem to post right after each other.
+ May 21, 2008 09:09 AM +
mona lisa in sane
Anyone think Pepper and Paul are the same person?
i barely have an ego, whereas Pepper has enough for the whole board.
+ May 21, 2008 09:16 AM +
Tara in Show Low
Since we have unofficially determined this is the 70's, that is a floating pack of Zig Zags.
+ May 21, 2008 09:34 AM +
Brownsville Girl in her Brownsville World...
I'm a pepper, he's a pepper, she's a pepper, we're a pepper; wouldn't you like to be a pepper too? be a pepper, drink dr pepper, yeah!

I think the orange thingie is some sort of sticker, so the person IN the apartment can tell if someone opened the door. Usually people who use the tell-tale-tape burgular alert (or teenager sneaking out) system use transparent tape, so that it's not so noticable, but maybe...?
+ May 21, 2008 10:00 AM +
Turbo in the Thunderdome
I'm inclined to believe Tara. This could be one of the only times the Holy Shit Here Comes Mom Pitch has been caught on film. Just don't forget to smile!

+ May 21, 2008 10:18 AM +
Roxy in the art center
"Mystery Date" indeed! Or, it's Barbie's 'other' boyfriend Todd. . . .
He looks like he's the logo for "MATEL" printed on his ass.

OR, he's the guy who starred in those early MENTOS ads - you know. "The Freshmaker!"
+ May 21, 2008 10:19 AM +
Tara
Pepper could be anyone.
+ May 21, 2008 10:22 AM +
tea kay two four in TN
I love this picture. He is definitely dressed to impressed! I wish my prom date looked more like him, too!
+ May 21, 2008 10:45 AM +
mona lisa, sneez in g.
Tara, i have to disagree. Pepper can be anyone, but anyone can't be pepper.
+ May 21, 2008 10:45 AM +
tea kay two four in TN
Oops...dressed to impress* haha
+ May 21, 2008 10:45 AM +
mona lisa in the louvre
read before you post, read before you post...


Anyone can be pepper, but pepper can't be anyone.
+ May 21, 2008 10:46 AM +
lost in the ozone
I still don't get it.
+ May 21, 2008 10:57 AM +
a different lil ol' me in someplace else
Hey first poster way up top: before I saw even one comment my thought was FOUND BALL!
+ May 21, 2008 11:20 AM +
CuriousKat in LG WI
This is my date for a halloween party a few years ago. He was dressed as Rick Blaine. I wore blue (the Germans wore gray).
+ May 21, 2008 11:23 AM +
Winston in Durham
It really does look like my prom date from the Senior prom. How weird!
+ May 21, 2008 11:55 AM +
felix in the back room
He looks gay to me, so maybe this is some sort of coming out thing.
+ May 21, 2008 12:11 PM +
alan goes "pting" in Joe Strummer's head
This guy left his job with Merrill Lynch in 1989 to become a pastor of a small non-denominational church. He still has most of his hair, runs 1/2 marathons and is a rabid baseball fan.

Unless I'm confusing him with the guy who was committed to the Willard Psychiatric Hospital in 1979.
+ May 21, 2008 12:27 PM +
Turbo in the Thunderdome
Lance Armstrong would be very interested in a Found Ball.

ahem...
+ May 21, 2008 12:44 PM +
Librarian in the woodwork
Maybe he's just about to leave for his first paying job as a waiter for the local hotel caterer and mom wanted to take his photo as a remembrance of the happy occasion.

No prom involved.

UNTIL that fateful night when he had to serve dinner to tables full of kids from his high school (he didn't have a date and, having forgotten what night it was, agreed to work). From then on his life was one bad turn after another until he auditioned for a local stage production of Rocky Horror Picture Show and pulled this suit out of the closet to rid it of its bad mojo.
+ May 21, 2008 02:08 PM +
Flargy in New Haven, CT
Librarian in the woodwork said:
From then on his life was one bad turn after another until he auditioned for a local stage production of Rocky Horror Picture Show and pulled this suit out of the closet to rid it of its bad mojo.

"Hi - Brad Majors;" [ASSHOLE!!!] "and this is my fiance, Janet Weiss." [SLUT!!!]
+ May 21, 2008 02:25 PM +
Pepper in your anus
Librarian LOL!
+ May 21, 2008 02:28 PM +
alan goes "pting" in Joe Strummer's head
Brownsville girl with your Brownsville curls, teeth like pearls shining like the moon above
Brownsville girl, show me all around the world, Brownsville girl, you're my honey love.

Sorry, launched into a little Dylan there.

I'm over ot now.
+ May 21, 2008 02:40 PM +
Tori in South Cackalackie
This guy reminds me of a young Mo Roca or whatever his name is.
One of the commentators from the VH1 I love the... shows.
+ May 21, 2008 02:47 PM +
Paul
Hey mona, I'm really insulted. Honestly, you two always post right after one another. Either you have a) the same schedule in the day b) one is stalking the other c) you are the same. I wouldn't be surprised if one or the other is just engaging in found sparing with themselves.
+ May 21, 2008 02:58 PM +
really tired of Pepper and Paul in Found land
Jesus Christ, get a room.
+ May 21, 2008 02:59 PM +
Paul
I'm sorry you're tired, I'm just trying to clear things up.
+ May 21, 2008 03:02 PM +
Mary in Mary-Land
I got you... under my skin...
I got you... deep in the heart of me...

Don't you know, silly fool, that you never can win...
'Cause I got you... under my skin...

(Lots of snapping and jazzy finger pointing)

As a side note, isn't ANYthing strange if it's found in a book about the Bermuda Triangle?
+ May 21, 2008 03:03 PM +
Terrie-Is-So-Very in totally-unique-ville
This guy looks like John Voight in his Midnight Cowboy days.
+ May 21, 2008 06:04 PM +
Clover in a somone's memory, sittin' on the dock of a bay
Looks like a teacher I know. He hasn't changed all that much since the early 1970's.

@Camelia, I answered your answer on #1862.

+ May 21, 2008 09:00 PM +
Just me in my house
it looks like someone stuck one of those plastic bike reflector things on the door. Maybe in case you can't see the door well enough? Or maybe someone was riding their bike and backed into the door and the reflector just stuck there. Dunno.
+ May 21, 2008 09:04 PM +
A Ghost in the Lost and Found said:
I think this is Doug Fieger from The Knack.
+ May 21, 2008 10:05 PM +
mona lisa in the louvre
Paul, i'm sorry for being snarky. I am not pepper. Pepper is not me. Sometimes he/she impostors me, but i don't impostor anyone. I'm only mona lisa (although sometimes i post something under a totally different name, just cuz i feel like it, but i never impostor anyone)



+ May 22, 2008 06:40 AM +
eva odlan in jacksonville
that's ray norton and this pic has to be pre-1970
+ May 23, 2008 03:39 PM +
Tired in Bed
He looks like Krist Novoselic, pre-Nirvana.
+ May 24, 2008 02:01 PM +
mlm in Texas
@Turbo- you never fail to make me laugh!

Also, is it just me, or does the doorknob look like it is up higher than it is nowadays?

That does look like a pack of Zig Zags...
+ May 25, 2008 01:02 PM +
Mon-Mon in Ft. Worth
Prom? Wedding? Night on the town? The possibilities are endless!
+ May 29, 2008 08:35 PM +
Dr Atomic in Alamagordo
OMG, it's my cousin Biff! He vanished in 1970 in the Bermuda Triangle and was never seen again. Looks like he made it to the prom somehow, somewhere . . .
+ June 05, 2008 01:19 PM +
Jason in Kentucky
He sure is shiny.

What's that orange rectangular thing in the lower right hand corner?
+ June 11, 2008 12:28 AM +

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