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November 11, 2008 |
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Loverboy Gallows
FOUND by Grace Lanz
in Minneapolis, Minnesota
I found this picture in a "Loverboy" record I bought for 99 cents at my local Goodwill. I'm not sure of the location or the date it was taken.
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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...
Loverboy must have been quite a disappointment to have ended up here.
(maybe taken at an old movie set?)
Is that thing portable? It looks like it may have wheels.
Ah, that pic's a hanging matter. Nothing beats some dancing on air in the morning!
Talk about a stairway to nowhere...
Talk about a stairway to nowhere...
Ooh, I used to love this game! Is there a letter T?
wow Geek, you must have been really SERIOUS about this game, if you used real gallows.
we just drew a little picture when I played it...
wait...you actually bought a Loverboy album...like, gag me with a forklift
So why don't you turn me loose,
Turn me loose,
Turn me loose,
I gotta do it my way,
Or no way at all.
Haiku of the day...
On the gallows is
A noose that swings in the breeze.
Loverboy - No more!
Just one of the Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover.
Working for the weekend? Ouch!
you'll only get whipped for singin' his songs, but dressin' like loverboy is a hangin' error, abby.
"Hangman, hangman, hold it a little while,
Think I see my friends coming,
Riding a many mile.
Friends, did you get some silver?
Did you get a little gold?
What did you bring me, my dear friends,
To keep me from the Gallows Pole?"
Looks like they had to cheat a little to get the traditional thirteen steps in. I only count that many if you include, as the first step, the plank on the ground between the two railing uprights.
Derek Windowjumper, why jump on Gracie for buying the album while you break into song and know the lyrics?
Veddy cool picture. Looks like the real deal, perhaps at a historic locale?
Maybe this was a death penalty method at a prison. However, I could easily see someone using this to take a flying leap over the wall to escape too.
Disturbing.
What a bizarre find. It might be a message to Grace that one should never buy a Loverboy album. Not even for 99 cents. Now she'll have to send copies of it to 10 friends to avoid bad luck.
@tiny
Copies of the album of copies of the photo?
I like the handrails! Safety first!
Librarian, that first plank is definitely a step, it's slightly off the ground.
I would have paid WAY more than 99 cents for a Loverboy album! Love them! Er...that is if I still had a turntable. Kind of useless now.
next up to the gallows, Brian Nichols of Atlanta, GA
Reminds me of the famous Thomas Moore quote when he stumbled on the stairs to the chopping block: "Do thou help me up; I'll need no help coming down."
Of course, St. Thomas was beheaded, not hung. But still. Great last words.
it looks like a prop to me... there's no way to open the trap doors to actually hang the loverboy fans.
Hilarious, Brain Problem!
Yes, safety first! Those handrails were a very courtious addition to the structure.
I may have nightmares about this one tonite...
I think this must be a picture of a set built for a historical film. The brick wall in behind is reminding me seriously of a historical film of some sort. I can't think of which one.
This photo shows the gallows that still stand in Lincoln, New Mexico, famed home of Billy the Kid.
The real story is that Grace has the guts to admit to buying a Loverboy album.
What next Grace...Eddie Money?
I do not like this, not one little bit.
Because of the adobe wall, I was guessing Texas but New Mexico makes sense too. Thanks Ricky!
Interestingly, the upper structure looks exactly like the frame for the swing set my dad built in our back yard when I was a kid. It had wooden seats held by real rope. You could swing way higher and it was more fun that those metal ones the other kids had in their yards.
Putting handrails on the steps leading to a gallows makes as much sense as swabbing the arm of the inmate with alcohol before giving a lethal injection. A trip on the stairs hardly matters when you're going to be hung and if you fall off and break your neck, then well..you'll probably save everyone a little time.
It's suggestive advertising to show what you should do for actually buying a Loverboy album.
I would not admit to buying a Loverboy record.
If you google image search 'tombstone gallows' you will find many shots of this. Appears that it is located at the courthouse in Tombstone.
Oh mama, I'm in fear for my life
From the long arm of the law
Lawman has put an end to my running
And I'm so far from my home
Oh mama, I can hear you a-crying
You're so scared and all alone
Hangman is coming down from the gallows
And I don't have very long
Do you get whipped or hanged for listening to Styx? Just wondering.
@lb in canada.. you're right! That's the spot. Looks like it's a tourist destination now.
...which explains the hand rails. They probably want to avoid lawsuits, should a tourist take a tumble and break his or her neck.
It's mildly entertaining to flip back and forth between this image and more recent ones in Google images. The hand rails have been repaired and there's a green lawn underneath the platform. Also there's an ugly metal building in behind the wall that wasn't there when this photo was taken. There are other differences. But Tombstone is definitely the location of the this photo.
The handrails are not for the one being hung but for those that have to go up there with him/her. Not very many gallows are self-service.
@Not Working--Styx is pure awesomeness compared to Loverboy! The kid is definitely NOT hot tonight!
My friend and I (or is it me? I never can keep that straight!) had a long-running argument back in the day as to who was better: Loverboy or Journey? Ah, the highbrow workings of a 12 year old mind....I voted for Journey, btw.
i'dd klll myself too if i had to listen to loverboy....
seriously though is this a warning? Like one of those Japanese horror flicks? Maybe you'll start seeing dead hung loverboy fans in the mirror or something.
@mlm: it's "my friend and I" since you have two subjects for the verb, "had". However, you can say, "I bought it for Helen and him" since in this case "him" is the object of the verb "bought." Kay?
And there's absolutely nothing wrong with Styx.
thanks lb in canada. my mistake about it being in New Mexico. Guess I've seen too many gallows...after a while they all look alike.
What kind of person takes a photograph of a gallows!?! What kind of family vacation involves a *trip* to a gallows? Imagine that slide show! "Here's Timmy and Sally at the Grand Canyon, here's where Dad said 'if you kids don't cut it out back there, I swear I'll pull this car right over,' here's where we lynched Timmy ...."
(LedZep was actually the first thing I thought of too ...)
I bet a kid took this picture on a family vacation. It is the kind of thing a kid would do...the family is over looking at some cool ruins or a castle, and there is little Sammy with his new camera, heading over to the gallows, behind the main attraction (it is something I would have done...)
Yup, Tombstone, Arizona. Here it is:
http://tinyurl.com/6rlsan
this makes my stomache ache.