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randy_byers ([personal profile] randy_byers) wrote2008-02-26 08:43 am
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Mohawk memories



So I asked John D. (see previous two entries) about the provenance of this photo of him and Sharee from the '80s, and he wrote:

'The picture was taken in downtown east Vancouver, on Railway St., right across from the warehouse where Sharee was living at the time. It was a great space, lots of punks living there (illegally, since it wasn't zoned for occupancy). They had some pretty good parties.

'I don't remember exactly when it was taken, if I had to guess I'd say spring of 1985. Somewhere around then, anyhow.

'The warehouse eventually (long afterward) got turned into 'Artists Live/Work studios', by which time the punks were of course long gone. I saw the results of the conversion about 5 years ago, visiting the friend of a friend who had bought a place there. It was disappointingly (if unsurprisingly) characterless, and the studios were a lot smaller than the space Sharee and her boyfriend had lived in. On the positive side, the elevator no longer smelled so much of rotting produce ... '

I replied:

'So I'm wondering whether the photo would have been taken in the spring of 1984, because that's the hairstyle she had when I saw her at V-Con in I think it was May of 1984, and when I saw her at the Worldcon later that year in September, she had her first mohawk. I think I actually visited that warehouse with her after V-Con in order to pick up some of her stuff. She had broken up with that boyfriend and was temporarily crashing in somebody else's flat. Your description made me smell the produce again ... '

I don't know, for some reason I'm amused by this method of dating a picture by the hairstyle, but I guess I do the same with my own. "Ah yes, that was 2007, when I had a full beard ... "

[identity profile] ron-drummond.livejournal.com 2008-02-26 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
If dating by hairstyle works, it works. In my case it mostly doesn't. I was scraggly-bearded in my late teens / early 20s, but from 25 on I've been clean-shaven with shadows that come and go; never wore a mustache apart from the beard. I guess I'm just timeless -- or was for 15 or 20 years, until the grey started creeping into my (happily unreceeding) hair a few years ago. I'd be too terrified to ever shave it all off.

Timeless

[identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com 2008-02-26 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a good point about how your look hasn't changed very much over the years, at least as measured by hair. I'm envious of your imperviousness to balding. I started in my mid-to-late 20s. But I've also been a more restless in my self-image, as opposed to timeless.