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Coney Island 1988
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“Harry’s Burritos” 1988
I finally found this negative which I misplaced many years ago. Her name is Phoebe and I was told she is a fairly well known actress. I never shoot celebs and I didn’t know who she was. To tell the truth, I handed my camera to my pal who was riding shotgun because I didn’t want to crawl onto his lap to take the picture. So I developed the film and printed the picture, and then lost the negative twenty three years ago! Here’s a fresh scan of an image I never thought would resurface…
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Old Edifice 1988
I’m going to ask Kevin Walsh, as I often do, for help in identifying this old structure. I’m guessing it may be an old railroad building and possibly located somewhere in te Bronx…I like this picture and hope to figure this out soon…
Kevin Walsh: Westchester Ave station on the NY, Westchester and Hartford RR, Westchester Avenue and the Sheridan Expressway.
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“Spring Flowers” 2011
Rather than continuing to post pictures of New York back in the ’80s when it looked like it had just been nuked, I figure it’s time for a nice springtime moment…
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“On The Road”
So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey
and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the
people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the
children cry, and tonight the stars’ll be out, and don’t you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and
shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens
all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides
the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found,
I think of Dean Moriarty… ©Jack Kerouac
California Dreaming 1992
This iconic sign has been in many movies and may be as well known as any sign in the world…Maybe not, I’m just saying. Notice that it has been riddled heavily with bullets over the years! Perhaps some “Greasers” in their 1932 Ford coupe, shot at it after seeing “Gun Crazy” back in 1950…
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Harlem 1988
I was very pleased to find this image during my search through old negatives…
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Public School East Harlem 1988
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Cafeteria 1988
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“Greenwich Village” 1988
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“The Transaction” 1988
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New York Telephone 1988
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“Hellbound” Times Sq. 2010
This fellow is upset because I’m in his face and he says I’m being disrespectful. I think he’s being disrespectful by telling me that I’m going to Hell. If that’s true, it shouldn’t be just because I’m Caucasian. I think Hell should be earned, not a birthright. These guys have always bothered me. Most religious people bother me. They are so certain I’m going to Hell, while at same time being equally assured that they are Heaven bound…Must be nice.
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Harlem 1988
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“Snake-1” & “Cay-161” Circa 1971 Tags
These tags were from the “First Wave” back in 1971-2…Snake-1 often tagged with Stitch-1. I think they were one of the first dynamic duos in graffiti. Others were SJK-171 & MIke 171, although I remember seeing Frank-207 with their tags most of the time. Then there was Moses & Patch 147 who bombed big time a few years later. Barbara & Eva 62 were the premier lady taggers of the early days. Can you recall ever seeing a Pillo-136 without a Pollo-136 right next to it? I didn’t think so…
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“Greasy Spoon” 1988

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