Mark 2400: Found Photo - Vintage Picnic
WAVZ 13: An endless golden field of swampy reeds by sunset light in the New Jersey Meadowlands as seen from my train window. Going home after a spending a day in Manhattan. Oct 2021
WAVZ 13: Strip away all the elegant restaurants with scurrying waiters wearing man-buns, organic grocery stores, antique emporiums, sidewalk bistros, fine expensive jewelry stores, chic art galleries.... and you get the REAL Piermont, New York. March 1970.
WAVZ 13: Yours Truly cruising the basement floor in a BRAND NEW 1963 Ford Tee Bird. For forgotten reasons, Mom made me wear a sailor suit before Dad shot this Kodachrome slide. I've had only two Fords in my life. This one and a used '72 Pinto. Milford CT. Dec 1963
WAVZ 13: New & improved scan of an old fave. We used to spend all day at the beach building Sand Cities until the tide came in. Left to right: me, one of my LA cousins, my sister laying down and another LA cousin. Milford, CT. Aug 1972.
WAVZ 13: Don't you just love finding a photo you've totally forgotten about? I was searching through a shoebox of prints and found this view of my sister and I on a beach near Los Angeles while spending two weeks with our West Coast cousins. Jan 1978.
giveawayboy: carport
WAVZ 13: A REALLY early photo of mine. Our neighbor's kids dressed for a birthday party of the girl in the upper right before all the other guests arrived. Taken with a cheap Diana camera using 127 roll film. Milford, CT. July 1966.
Bart&Co.: Night Train
WAVZ 13: A friend downing some Boone’s Farm up in his room. Note the two cassette decks and a radio. We were both into recording music off the air from our favorite Top-40 station, WAVZ 13 in New Haven. Milford, CT. Aug 1973.
WAVZ 13: An admiring flock of chicks are clearly impressed with my manly ability to knock down a large weeping willow tree using just one hand. Milford, Connecticut. August 1971
WAVZ 13: A hot summer night by the Anchor Beach. At the corner of Beach Avenue and Village Road looking west . All you could hear was the gentle lapping of waves and smell the scent of salty marine air. Milford Connecticut. Aug 1990.
WAVZ 13: Another glimpse into the WPKN-FM studio from back in the day. This guy had an AMAZING voice! As for me, I had recently submitted an audition tape, was approved for air, and was doing fill-ins when called by our program director. Bridgeport CT. August 1989
WAVZ 13: Sometimes all you need is a Mom, a pair of styrofoam dumbbells and a plastic sword. Life was good at the beach across Merwin Avenue from our house on Rock Street. Milford, CT. August 1964.
WAVZ 13: Did you ever find a photo which you completely forgot about? This Polaroid shows me and my girlfriend from college (at right) visiting Los Angeles for the first time. The Griffith Observatory in the background. Jan 3 1978
WAVZ 13: Who needs a Dollar Store when you could buy chuck roast at 37 cents a pound, 3 pounds of hamburger meat for $1.35 and potatoes in a 20 pound bag for 99 cents? And... they gave out Plaid Stamps (remember those?) Somewhere in America. 1961.
WAVZ 13: In the summer of 1973, I had a VERY short-lived job selling Rinso and other detergents right in front of the old Woodmont Laundromat on Merwin Avenue, not too far from Sloppy Joe's Burger joint. The old Sauter hotel hovers in the distance. Milford CT
WAVZ 13: Me in my fave comfy yellow velour shirt and orange sneakers, Mom with a huge hair bun, bead earrings and makeup, my sister holding a Fisher Price "Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe" toy and Dad looking dapper with Vaseline hair tonic. Milford CT Dec 1966
WAVZ 13: A sneak peek into the wall behind my desk decorated with posters, photographs and stickers. Pretty much every square inch was covered with something. I was 14 at the time. Milford Connecticut. March 1974.
WAVZ 13: Large colorful 1960s and 70s station wagons line up for a ride on the Bridgeport to Port Jefferson Ferry during a sunny summer day. The old United Illuminating power plant across the harbor was imploded in 1996. Bridgeport CT. Aug 1973
WAVZ 13: My Mom and her sister at Huntington Gardens wearing pink dresses. A crop from a Kodachrome slide which my Dad took with his Kodak Retina 35mm camera. Los Angeles California. Easter Sunday. 1955.
WAVZ 13: A moment caught between my grandfather and his wife, who's sitting contently knowing that she's just won an argument. New Haven CT. December 1955
WAVZ 13: Late night view of my room's desk showing posters for WAVZ and WNHC radio, a photo of the World Trade Center, I Love Lucy, and many other teenage fascinations. Some of them have links to other photos on Flickr. Milford Connecticut. Feb 1973.
WAVZ 13: Yours truly offering a little bug which I caught to one of the neighborhood kids in our back yard. I'm not sure she appreciated the gift as intended. Oh well, I tried my best. Milford Connecticut. Aug 1963
WAVZ 13: An alien invasion? An atomic bomb? A mutant jellyfish? NO! It's a geodesic dome that inventor Buckminster Fuller planned to cover Midtown Manhattan with. The idea was to keep smog and snow out. Needless to say, this was never built. New York. 1960
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