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November 11, 2008 |
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Class of 1970 - Spring
FOUND by Robert Keim
in Upstate New York
I can't help but think that there should be more to this picture, but someone kept it nonetheless. Found in an old desk drawer with some other pictures.
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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...
Yippee! The first to comment!
I love this picture...a boyfriend from long ago had a VW bug, and we went on many adventures in it. Many adventures in and out of it :)
What? Everyone went to sleep?
Hmm...1970, Upstate New York..you want some beaded, tie-dyed clothed youths to be dancing around on the grass?
See, what you got there is a bad case of snow mold in your lawn. Now, it's usually a circular pattern, you see, but this here is definitely snow mold. You can't really use fungicide on it unless it's worse than this, OK, but the good news is snow mold goes dormant once the weather warms up. Come fall, you need to rake your leaves better and don't put fertilizer down so close to the first frost. That'll be $100 for the service call, thanks.
sadly, there were no survivors from the class of 1970's spring class trip to the authentic old western town, due to the game on hangman that got tragically out of hand.
But non-the less tradition must be upheld, and the class photo day was still held.
*game OF hangman...
Fahrvergnügen!
I didn't see it at first. Is the "Class of 1970" that is spelled in the lawn spelled with rocks?
Punchbuggy! No returns! You are right about the rocks.
Not rocks. Crocus' perhaps. This took planning from the fall before. Next time I will magnify before commenting.
how is it that robert keim gets TWO finds in TWO days and some of us are still at OH FOR MANY?
(This is 3 in 3, Lars.)
I never would have seen the words in the grass, you guys.
what's up with Robert Keim???
Gee, perhaps Robert Keim should be elevated to demigod status for providing so many great finds lately. Then we'd go to RobertKeimCouch in the mornings instead of FoundMagazine.
Flower children!
Also, "Robert Keim" is an anagram for "Bro Meet Irk".
So obviously the Found Team is sending a secret coded message to all the Foundians, each and every "BRO" [and sis] among us, that we should be IRKed that they are using Finds from 'somewhere in upstate New York' [yeah, like we believe that!] instead of ones we sent in. At least that's one theory.
and there it was... Gone!
Hmm. The Class of 1970 is a camera-shy bunch.
...of course, this photo was taken back before the world was colorized, possibly even before color had been invented.
I guess they took "tune in, turn on, drop out" literally?
I think they actually meant "Grass of 1970 spring"
This was the year the infamous Serial Lawn Mower went around cutting up grass, Detective Murphy took photos of this lawn to document the only grass that survived.
my graduating class planted our year in bluegrass on the football field. it was sweet to come back and see it there until they finally resodded the field six or seven years later.
@ fooch - Me, too! I was much thinner and more flexible then. It wasn't in Durham, NC was it? The Green Flash. oy - good memories.
My mom and I tried to plant a flower flag in 1976... it came out about as well as the crocus Class of 1970 did. Hardly at all.
Wow, Feeling in Coherent, what a nice, nice catch there on the words in the lawn. What a steely-eyed sharpshooter. Kudos to you.
Good eyes! Better even than Robert Keim's! It would appear that he didn't catch the flowers! Which makes it even more annoying that he got it 'published' here.
I'm thinking of all kinds of fun things you could plant secretly in someone's lawn now...both nice and not nice.
I am really glad that Found is publishing all these wonderful old photos that Robert Keim found in the old furniture. Whenever a finder writes "found this with a bunch of other old photos" I always wonder what the other ones were!
I did see the flowers in the grass. Certainly they would show up more in color.
OH, and Class of 1970!! C'est moi! But geeze.. this makes it looks like the Dark Ages. I know I'm not that old!
It reminds me that when I was little I actually did believe that there was no color at all in my parents' childhoods. Then, suddenly, the year I was born, color appeared, like in the movie The Wizard of Oz.
I wonder if Robert Keim inherited a former Yearbook staff room in an upstate New York school?
I could fit like 20 people in that car. Five just in the front trunk.
Classic Bug.. 10 points!
I learned to drive a stick shift in a VW bug like this one.
When my automobile buying decisions are no longer influenced by my children and the amount of junk I cart around for them, I'd love to have a convertible beetle. In orange.
this reminds me of when previous seniors have "forked" the school lawn as "class of 99" or whatever.
It's the Clown College Class of 1970. They're all in the car.
This was before the greed of the 80's snorted it all up and cocaine could be just sprinkled willy-nilly about the lawn to accent poorly conceived and weakly executed senior pranks.
These seniors went on to sad tiny lives as insurance company middle management types, not really responsible for anything important, just doing their time and hoping they'd reach retirement before anybody realized how superfluous they were/are.
Taste my bitterness?
Damn! I've heard all the talk about "grade inflation" but I never understood how bad it's gotten until I saw this picture and realized that back in '70, the finals were so hard not a single student passed through to get their diploma!
msr, what does it mean to fork a lawn?
...means that the teenager that lives in the house is a hottie.
I saw the words in the lawn, too!
It's our tradition to put the year in rocks on the side of a hill outside of town, not in the school lawn!
@ Wondering ... I know this one!! To fork a lawn is to collect a whole mess of plastic forks and then stick them into someone's front yard. (I'd never heard of it before a year or two ago when one of the young people in my house was graduating from high school and was honored with a small forking by her friends.)
Back in the olden days is was t.p.ing someone's house that conveyed the same meaning.
I never heard of forking a lawn until right this minute. Sounds like an improvement over TPing. Not so hard to clean up, but maybe harder to set up. Where did this start, and who started it? I wonder if there are any photos of forked lawns on Google Images?
I swear, I learn something new everyday on this site. "To Fork A Lawn"....Thanks Librarian.
The picture in my mind of a person being forked...yikes!
Yep, there are lots of pictures. I don't think kids fork lawns where I live, although there's plenty of TPing. Too many environmentalists maybe.
But how could I have gone through my life without knowing about this? How many other things are going on out there that I don't know about?
Lawndude said "punchbuggy." We used to say "slug-a-bug."
1970...the year I was born!!! Punchbuggy 15!!
Hmmm..."punchbuggy." We always just called em "pregnant rollerskates." Of course, that was before inline skates.
CLASSIC BUG, 10 POINTS!
Oh, you said that already.
Anyway,they're 'VW Beetles' where I come from.
@ Librarian: I now have this terribly gracious image of a young lady being 'honored with a small forking by her friends'.
Sounds like a euphemism for a rather polite gang bang.
Well I'll be forked.
Thank you, Jonathan. My reaction was "Well, fork me!"
Or as orinoco would put it, fork thou.
Spam: "Do you see a doctor or a dentist for a toothache?" What, you mean to get one?
I'm thrilled that a few of my items have been the "Find of the day!" I've been submitting steadily (a few times per month) for the last two years. So, to all of you that think it isn't "fair" or whatever, keep looking for stuff to submit. You'll got your day, too.
There is the possibility that some of the pics I've found are from old yearbook photos. some are in small piles, some were in unlabeled albums. I selected the ones that struck my as weird or particularly random and scanned them for submission. I have a whole drawer full of items that've been scanned and submitted. My family thinks I'm weird when I pick up "garbage" and put it in my pocket. It's fun!
I can't belive you guys can't see it, there's 'class 1970' written in the grass, i'm not sure what it's written in, but it's dffinitely there.
Robert Keim, you're my hero! A True Found Rockstar! I hope you have more Finds coming up and Finds of the Day, and even more to submit. Glad you're not deterred by the haters.
(AS finds of the day)