Thanks nickcarraway.
Posted on 11/18/2017 10:32:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
A cool old picture of five men in the Old West went up for sale at a flea market in Ashville, North Carolina in 2011. It caught the attention of history buff Frank Abrams, who decided to spend the $10 to buy it.
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They should do a story about the person who sold it.
That was actually my first thought. 8>) But then it was always just their cheeks.
I hear that, and agree with your assessment. One of the reason journalism is dead as a door nail.
True that, but they were both still rivalries. 8>)
Liberty Devitto just kills it with his drumming on that one.
Is Dirty Dave holding a Schofield revolver?
There was zero depth to that story. It was almost idiotic.
It certainly left a lot of questions unanswered. Apparently they are not interested in the who, what, why where, & how’s of a story anymore. Either that or they were never taught, which could also be the case with our education system anymore.
Interesting.
Yep! LD certainly added dynamics and, on videos, he looked like a wild man...not unlike Keith Moon who I saw in Cincinnati on the Who tour before their Cincy “Death Concert”.
The late, great Phil Ramone produced & engineered “The Stranger” - his first for Billy Joel. The sound quality was VERY good and typical of his engineering.
He also received a Grammy for producing Paul Simon’s “Still Crazy...”.
Journalists think everyone has the attention span of a gnat. So they write like we are third graders.
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So true. Journalists are taught to write to the lowest common denominator, hence the motto “write to Jethro.”
I remember back around 1970, some man bought an old photograph and tried to pass it off as LINCOLN on a bad day. I believe the writeup was in LIFE or LOOK or one of those magazines.
I thought serious doubt had been cast on the croquet photo (the figures were all very small).
And the HPD forensics specialist also made a bum call “authenticating” a purported Robert Johnson bar photo (that looked out of era).
https://truewestmagazine.com/the-croquet-kid/
http://www.thecountryblues.com/op-ed/another-robert-johnson-photo-debunked/
The guy in the back appears to be a much older man than Billy the Kid, has a higher hairline, smaller right ear and a different jaw.
It used to be newspapers wrote on a 4th grade level so more readers could understand the articles. Perhaps this shows the difference between today’s 4th graders and those from 50 years ago.
Kristofferson as Billy and Coburn as Pat.
All I know is it sold for big bucks. Not sure how anyone can disprove it now even if it isn't him. But this picture of him does not really look like the other picture with him playing crochet.
Thanks nickcarraway.
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