{"id":14609,"date":"2017-04-30T23:01:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T03:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=14609"},"modified":"2021-10-20T00:28:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T04:28:43","slug":"2021-the-1984-greenwich-village-halloween-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=14609","title":{"rendered":"2021 – The 1984 Greenwich Village Halloween Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to https:\/\/bobleafe.com<\/span>\/<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Someone else had a different take 10 years ago:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/thetrad.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/twat-1984.html?m=1<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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I\u2019m slightly biased towards Mr. Leafe\u2019s opinion. Besides, it\u2019s funnier. Plus, Mr. Trad appears to be biased against anyone who took a bridge or a tunnel to get there.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So anyway\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026although I have 3 photos of this event on my site, I have another 30 or so sitting around that I\u2019ve never done anything with. They\u2019re not all my best work and if I was submitting them for publication, I\u2019d edit some out, but there are a lot of people who were involved in this parade and maybe never saw a photo of themselves from that night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t it be nice if a couple of those people happened to stumble across this blog and – 37 years later – see themselves in their glorious youth prancing through the Village in full costume?<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope it happens and I hope someone lets me know about it, so I can strain my arm from patting myself on the back.<\/span><\/p>\n

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With a few exceptions that could not be helped – the lead photo, for instance – I\u2019m posting these in the order I took them in case the sequence is helpful to anybody. I\u2019m also making believe that anyone from that period would be able to recall a sequence like that after nearly 4 decades (the only reason I \u201cremember\u201d it is because Kodak thoughtfully printed little sequential numbers on each slide, giving me a fantastic \u201cmemory\u201d).<\/span><\/p>\n

So, you ready?<\/span><\/p>\n

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To get us in the spirit, I\u2019m actually going to kick things off with a non-parade photo I took that afternoon in a publisher\u2019s office. If I recall correctly, this lady in red was called \u201cLuciferaso\u201d and I know that she\u2019ll be reading this soon after I publish it (she may<\/em> even comment below\u2026\u2026\u2026..and I may<\/em> wind up being banned from hell as a result\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.darn the luck!):<\/span><\/p>\n

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On to the parade!<\/span><\/p>\n

Before I put this together, I Google-Imaged this parade to see what others may have captured that night. I expected to see a lot of the same things I shot, but only found a few.<\/span><\/p>\n

The most common same-subject image had 2 or 3 variations of Leonardo painting Mona, captured from different angles, with some showing how really<\/em> 3-dimensional Mona\u2019s face actually was.<\/span><\/p>\n

What I like about mine (he says modestly), is not only that Mona looks much more like a 2-dimensional painting, but it\u2019s the only one I found that also included Richard Nixon (quel bonus!) and someone talking to him who I thought was Queen Elizabeth, but she’s wearing a \u201cMiss Arizona\u201d sash (maybe Kyrsten Sinema picking Tricky-Dicky’s “brain”?):<\/span><\/p>\n

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And what did https:\/\/bobleafe.com<\/span><\/a> have to say about this image?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLooks like Mona is also a big fan of ‘TWA Tea\u2019.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

And, yes, this photo is out of sequence because it might make you think they\u2019re ALL gonna be this good.<\/span><\/p>\n

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So let\u2019s start the real sequence, where – at least in the beginning – I appear to be at the intersection of Bleeker and Charles:<\/span><\/p>\n

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An interesting quartet of individuals, including a brave, barefoot<\/em> Cupid, followed by his foot servant, Raggedy Ann:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I have no interesting\/clever captions for the rest, so I\u2019ll just post what I have that will take us up to the finale:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The 2-shot finale begins with this very interesting-looking car. What a paint job!<\/span><\/p>\n

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I have no<\/u> idea how I got this shot, but I think the car stopped, someone (not me) opened the right backseat door, the driver appears to still be waving to people (was the car still moving with an open door?) and I made the most of this ONE shot I got:<\/span><\/p>\n

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And look at the incredible detail! I can\u2019t imagine<\/em> how much work went into this.<\/span><\/p>\n

I hope this is in a museum somewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

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That\u2019s it\u2026\u2026\u2026.hope you enjoyed the trip back\u2026\u2026\u2026.Happy Halloween!<\/span><\/p>\n

And please note that everything<\/em> in my blog – including this post – is copyrighted.<\/span><\/p>\n

(I know\u2026\u2026.not the most joyous note to end on, but I AM dressed up for Halloween – and every other day – as a professional photographer\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026whatever that<\/em> looks like\u2026\u2026\u2026.so I have to say stuff like that.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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And – since you asked – here\u2019s what that professional attire looked like in 2020:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=11433<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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But if you really<\/em> want to see me in my favorite mid-80s mask (1986, actually) while in my professional photographer attire, at work, ON HALLOWEEN, <\/em>go here:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=726<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

(I\u2019m right after the lead story about a legendary friend of mine.)<\/span><\/p>\n

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And if you need to contact me for any<\/em> reason, hit the red WHOWHATWHY<\/span> link at the top of the page and find the email address.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In any event……………..<\/span><\/p>\n

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