Whoozit

Here's an adjusted, enhanced, manipulated and cropped repost of the as-yet unidentified smiling person. Paul K was on the right. That picture on the wall looks a little like someone familiar, or maybe Lawrence Welk. B.C.

Engrish

Q. What is Engrish?

A. Engrish can be simply defined as the
humorous English mistakes that appear in
Japanese advertising and product design. PK

Link to Engrish website

Okay, Paul, here's another. Martha in Maine, '06. I am reminded of a comforting sense I had that weekend: that we had all retained an important sensibility over the years. --Joe

Joe Cartier

Here's another picture by jon Oshima of the Wood's Hole MZBB concert.

Joe Cartier on drums

Also rock and roll right leg move number 7.

Mark Zamcheck

Mark recently stopped by the lab to confer on computer issues and while here checked out some of our microphones.

Me in my backyard 1976

Hi folks,
If you can't find any school day photos how about posting more stuff from after school until now. Then we can share the various experiences of our lives and see the changes. So get out the scanner and if we each do one photo a week it would add up. Anybody have a yearbook they can scan? PK

By the Sea July 06

John Cate Band at the Toad Cambridge 7/20/06

Sorry the quality is poor need a better cell phone or a real camera . This is Paul and Gian

site update

We got spammed in the comments section so I shut off anonymous comments. It's a bit of a pain but all you have to do is go in and register and become a member and we can start using the comments again. All other functions remain the same and in fact if you sign in the same as you do when uploading you can make a comment now, but it will be marked "anyone". That's better than "nobody", so just leave your initials, unless you want to keep us guessing.

The pictures keep getting more interesting all the time.

BC

Dave McClelland Ray Mitkus Ralph Robart

Pipi Longstocking

Bowen school 1963

Cindy and Dotty

Cindy Fallows (right) and her sister Dorothy Fallows, preparing for a theme party, Biddeford Pool, Maine, around 1980. --Joe

Cindy as server

Cindy properly serving a Moroccan lamb dish at Biddeford Pool, around 1980.

Mike and child

Mike Henderson and his first born (?) at Biddeford Pool, 1980, I think. --Joe

Dee and Karen

Karen Mason, Bob Dee, Dotty Fallows, and ??? (Cindy, help me out), at Biddeford Pool, around 1980. --Joe

Jane and Bob

The seductive Jane Bloomingberg and Bob Crowley at Cindy's Morrocan theme party, Biddeford Pool, around 1980. --Joe

Suzi and Cindy

Suzi and Cindy at Biddeford Pool, around 1980. We were all still smoking.

Friends in 71

I have very few photos from high school years. I didn't take any, perhaps aware that such documents might later be regretted. Suzi Cahill sent me this picture in 1997, just a few months before she died. [We had remained close friends over the years, and she is sorely missed.] That's Cindy taking exception to my odd behavior. I believe the picture was taken at a party Ray and Robin Yerkes gave in their backyard, the James Montgomery Band as entertainment. --Joe, AKA Joey

Mimi Kravitz and Paul Friedlander On Stage

Mimi Kravitz rocks out with Paul Friedlander at Wood's Hole performance of Mother Zamcheck's Bacon Band. The exact date hasn't been determined but according to Lee Gesmer, who was there (we have the photos to prove it and will post them) it cannot have been later than 1971.

Jon Oshima photo.

Check your album

Hey we're having a lot of fun with this blog eh? Probably lots of old photos to dig up yet. Check your attic and in that photo album, scan them in and let's see them.

Bert, Stephen and John in Truro dunes

Winston, Bob and Bob

A fine group of Hawaiian-shirted fellows on the deck in Sudbury.

Hambone

Hope this is large enough for you

Japanese music retreat 1977

All the kimono ladies are koto players a Japanese horizontal harp with a very clear tone. This was taken at the base of Mt Fuji in Shizuoka. Sitting front and center is the late Ranpo Yokoyama-Sensei, reknowned as a superior Shakuhachi (bamboo flute) maker, whose flutes are highly prized. He is Katsuya Yokoyama's father.

Martha at stage club

At Cindy's place

Marlene, Karen and Nancie

Anybody know the date and place for this photo?

Winston and Nancie

Despite receiving chemo in this picture, Win always had a smile.

Steve and Hank Jacobs

Hank Jacobs

Stephen and Hank

Hank, Steve's father used to be a big band leader in Boston. He was already pretty old when he had Stephen. He used to play his big organ for us which took up most of the living room. We used to drive Steve's mother crazy playing music real loud. WIth Hank's organ and Steve's rock music I think she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown constantly.

Gian Caterine, Susannah Zani and Merrill Pellows @ the Wind Harp, somewhere on a Vermont mountaintop circa 1972.

Paul Kastner and sons in Japan 2005

Our annual neighborhood local harvest festival. My eldest Sean is holding the lion mask. All the school kids play drums and bamboo fifes while the fellow on the left dons the mask and scares the younger kids. Ray who is on my left wouldn't let go of me. click on image to enlarge.

At Stephen Jacobs house

Bunch of Newton South class of '72 kids

Lee Bardin, John Sullivan, and... please tell me who they all are. I am so bad with names after all this time!

The Act

Saul Shocket Alto Sax, Andrew Kastner on a 1957 Les Paul which he still owns. circa 1970.
Saul lives in Cape Cod and at 62 holds the world record for the power lift at 560lbs!
Link to Saul's Training website
Andrew still plays music and lives in Los Angeles.
Link to Andrew's band website

Paul Kastner and Jon Oshima graduation '71

Does anyone know who the other people are in this photo?

Giano

Manchild

Ken Lewis

Boys on the bus

This is a picture from Kens album of Mark Zamcheck,Giano,John Oshimo ( as Marlo Thomas) and a strange woodland apparition named Michael Maffei

Jamie Abrams, Bruce and Jim Gordon

Jamie Abrams and Jim Gordon visiting "Bruce" the engineer at the Metropolitan Water Works in Chestnut Hill over by Boston College in 1972. Here they are looking up at the German steam engine installed in the 1800's.

These pictures sat in the film can since I shot them in 1972. I had no money to get them developed, so I stashed them away in a box in my mother's basement. Last year I found them while cleaning out, and then finally got the pictures processed last month. I have other eerie shots of that place. The building is a Richardson design (Cambridge City Hall, T Stations in Newton) See the link below for a shot of the organic rusticated sandstone architecture that these buildings have, which is a precursor to the motifs used in many Arts and Crafts works.

Bob

MDC Waterworks 1972

Here's what these guys are gawking at. The steam engine is still there in Chestnut Hill although the MDC has let it deteriorate badly. You can see it is two stories high at this level and extends another level below where the huge flywheels are. The system was still in standby service when we visited, but by 1974 the MDC didn't need it to pump water, so they just let it rust. Now it is being disposed of and a mall or something will go in that building.

David, Steve and Alan

David McClelland, Steve Osborn and Alan Goodman during a visit in 1997 in Sudbury.

David McClelland:Firing a Howitzer at Bostons' 4Th of July on the Esplanade.

This was in honor of my 25th year as and EMT with the City of Boston

and 25th year as coordinator of EMS response at the 4th of July celebration.

Stephen and Atticus

NC: Check out the new guitar

Ken Lewis

This is Ken at a construction site for his company Ariel-Triad