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My Past Halloweens
I grew up in Independence, Kansas, a town of about 10,000 in Southeast Kansas. Every year around Halloween they have Neewollah and the town swells to about 100,000. There’s a week long carnival down town, a pageant (Queen Neelah), a play, famous musical acts (Roy Clark’s manager used to live there and I had signed up to usher for Roy Orbison, but he got throat polyps or something and was replaced by Merle Haggard or someone like that), and on Saturday, a big parade. And by big, I mean two hours long. I have no idea if it’s as big as it used to be. Here’s a shirt from it. I found it stuffed in the rag box. Not sure how it found its way there, but I’ve rescued it. I also have some belt buckles that are numbered.
Here’s some photos of me during Halloweens. First is 1972 and my Hot Wheels costume. I’ve always been a car guy and my sister’s always been a… never mind.
In Junior High, when I was too old to go trick-or-treating, I dressed as a mad professor. I had an over-sized plaid shirt that I used as a smock, I drew a goatee on my face and darkened around the eyes. I handed out candy looking like that and scared many a little kid. Unfortunately, I only have one picture: a cracked up Polaroid that won’t scan. The year I got out of the Army, I went to a Halloween party as a punk/zombie.
The next year in college I did the same thing and talked some clean-cut friends into similar outfits. They were surprised how much the change in dress affected their attitude.
That night we did a scavenger hunt and these cool looking boots I had were killing my feet. I was exhausted and in pain. I’m holding the balloon for a pretty girl who continued on the hunt.
Hound Family Photos #3
A few more of the family. We had a 1949 Plymouth Coupe that had been my grandfather’s. By the way, I hated bow ties then, and I hate them now. My mother apparently loved them.
My Mom knows how to sew. She sewed these pillow patterns onto shirts and aprons for Christmas in 1976.
Here’s me in another stinkin’ bow tie, Easter 1974.
Hound Family Photos from the 1970s part 2
In today’s first photo my Dad is doing something with the fireplace. But there’s that chrome chair and the metal ship from yesterday. We had two of those shields. Notice the striped bean bag chair on the right and those funky shoes right in the middle of the floor.
Here’s Mom and Dad, Easter morning 1972. Yes, that’s what my Mom wore to our Southern Baptist Church that morning. I’ll have more Easter morning photos.
This was our favorite chair, we called it the donut chair. This sister finally broke it when she was in her 20s. I’m guessing this was 1976. Look at that lamp in the background, that purplish textured thing is a lamp. And there’s that metal ship again!
This looks like me holding a cousin in 1973. I posted it simply for the wonderful yellow vinyl chair. I think was at my Uncle’s house in Dallas.
Hound Family Photos from the 1970s
Here’s the beginning of some family photos of mine from the 1970s. I’ve got a shoebox full that my Mom just gave me to scan. Please note, these are not FOUND Photos, these are photos of my family; people I know and love. I’ll have more this week and again around Halloween and Christmas.
First up, here’s my Uncle Bill and his daughter with my Mom and us kids in June 1972. Mom had quite the look going on. My Uncle Bill looked a lot like Burt Reynolds. In fact, once at a business dinner, someone told the waiter that he was Burt’s brother. Apparently you could see the rumor spread across the restaurant as people whispered from one table to the next.
One of the joys of these are looking at the backgrounds. The first pic is at my Grandparents. They still have that table in the same spot and one chair still in the living room. The other chair is in the garage, Grandad couldn’t bear to part with it after sitting in it for 40 years. The seat is completely caved in. In the 2nd one you see some kind of groovy stand with a metal ship on it and the chrome chair that my sister still has. It has been reupholstered though. And I still have that Animal Stamps book. And I’m wearing my Big Mac t-shirt! I loved that thing! My birthdays, 1974, 1975 and 1977 (the one with the striped socks).
Next are just some pics of various places we lived and stuff we had. My room in 1972. I wondered why someone decided I needed a panda bear poster, but I had it for a long time. Next two are this cool table we had that my Dad built from giant spools and auto wheels. After we got a real table, that was outside for many years, painted red.
1991 Cornerstone Festival T-shirt
Here’s my t-shirt from the 1991 Cornerstone Festival. This was the first year they were in Bushnell, IL. Before that they were closer to Chicago I believe. Poor Bushnell was overrun and unprepared. The music was great and the festival was lots of fun. Looking at the back of the shirt you can see some of the bands that were there. They had 3 stages going so you couldn’t see everyone.
Petra (probably the biggest name in Christian rock), Rez Band, Whiteheart, Mastedon (with guys from the band Kansas), Charlie Peacock (one of the most talented and an awesome producer of other acts as well), Whitecross (Hair Metal), Chagall Guevara (wish Steve Taylor and was on the Pump Up the Volume soundtrack) , Bloodgood (metal), David Mullen, Guardian, Edin-Adahl, One Bad Pig (the most awesome Christian punk), The Choir (as you know one of my favorites), Adam Again (another of my favorites), Jacob’s Trouble (excellent acoustic based rock. I wanted their song “She Smiles at the Future” at my wedding.), The Violet Burning, Rick Elias and the Confessions, Darrell Mansfield (blues harmonica player), The Throes, and many others. Over the Rhine was there also, but I don’t see them on the shirt. I think they were just getting started.
I may get around to posting more stuff from this trip. Here’s a youtube vid someone did.
The Choir Wide Eyed Wonder T-Shirt
The Choir, Wide Eyed Wonder tour (1989-1990), with a picture of a band member’s Grandmother on the cover. They were on tour with Russ Taff. I posted this at Webshots a long time ago, then at some point, someone stole the picture and put it on Wikipedia with no credit, link back to my album, or anything. I know that’s a risk we all take, but I still hate it, especially since Wikipedia’s licensing says “I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain..” So that means that once it’s there, people assume it’s public domain and whoever posted it was NOT the copyright holder. I sent them a message that I was the owner, but didn’t really see the “release” that my message implied. Anyway, on to some music:
