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I love this ID card, and the horrible and wonderful adolescent moment in time it represents, the beginning of my 11th grade year. |
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But it wasn't all grim high school Septembers. Summer (above) meant getting up before dawn to catch waves on the south beaches. Well, the truth about that is that I wasn't much of a surfer. I had a board, and I went along with my surfing friends, but my heart wasn't in it, particularly at 6 in the morning. I had not seen this picture in over two decades when I found it in 2000. The picture surprised me because I seem so relaxed and uncharacteristically happy.
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Provenance: The dating of the picture above and the picture below in the Hollywood High School bleachers is difficult. It appears on a roll of film that is clearly from Hollywood High School. The acne suggests 10th grade (1974-1975), but the longish hair suggests 11th grade (1975-176). It is from somewhere in there. I recognize my Geometry teacher, Mr. Maradian, on the strip of film, and that means this roll of film would have been from the 10th grade.
Provenance: The two pictures on the left are from a set of negatives labeled "late summer 1975" and includes pictures of my friends with their surfboards. I remember this series of photos as being from Huntington beach. We got up at 4 am to get there at dawn. We drove in Steve's parents' yellow "Barracuda" with that wonderful curved rear glass window. Steve was slightly older than me or Eric, and had his driver's license by that date. I even remember my surprise at the moment when either Steve or Eric snapped one of pictures above.
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Above: Kids in baseball practice (above) suggests that this 1975 picture from the bleachers at Hollywood High School was taken in the spring. I was not participating in my physical education class because I had a cold on the day this picture and the picture of me in the bleachers (further above) was taken. It's funny how small details like that can be remembered.
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