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 ... "