{"id":285,"date":"2017-05-04T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic-photoblog.bobleafe.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2019-10-22T09:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T13:02:25","slug":"1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"1976 – Favorite photos of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK – now we’re getting into some photographic variety.<\/span><\/h4>\n

I started the year off with a dark-haired GF (see below stop-action shot of her) and finished it with a blonde – an interesting year.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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This crappily-colored shot of me and Ronnie Spector was taken in a stairwell at William Paterson College (now William Paterson University) in Wayne, NJ, at a Southside Johnny & the Asbury Park Jukes show. She and the band had a single out at the time called “You Mean So Much To Me” (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xERh3DH3x_4<\/span><\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

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I was living in a house in River Edge, NJ, with 3 other people and way too many cats, courtesy of my roommate Bob, who was the lead singer for the popular North Jersey cover band, Pegasus.<\/span><\/h4>\n

The pictures show 7 of the cats (Bob’s holding the latest 3). His main cat, Damien, can be seen in the 1975 listing.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Thanks to the cats, the house STUNK, but my bedroom door was always shut, so my room was odor-free. This worked to my advantage when I brought a date home. I didn’t have to try to talk anyone into coming up to my room. Holding their noses, they made a beeline for it.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Two weeks after meeting the blonde GF, she took me on a school-scouting road trip to the University of Connecticut, which had interesting-looking buildings, eye-catching stair shadows, nice flowers and a peculiar pairing of transportation vehicles to photograph.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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The following month, we visited my Alma Mater – Ramapo College – whose Arch is its centerpiece and focal point. Too bad the sun wasn’t shining on it when we were there.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Then we went around to the back of the school:<\/span><\/h4>\n

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I don’t know who created this, but Dr. Judith Peck was the main faculty member in that area, so I’d better give her credit.<\/em><\/span><\/h4>\n

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The Ramapo Mountains and the Ramapo Reservation are right across the street from Ramapo College. I’m dubbing this one “Coke Bottle Mountain” (turn it sideways).<\/span><\/h4>\n

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The GF took this shot of me on 12-31-76 while she was house-sitting.<\/span><\/p>\n

What a weird New Year\u2019s Eve\u2026\u2026\u2026..<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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OK – now we’re getting into some photographic variety. I started the year off with a dark-haired GF (see below stop-action shot of her) and finished it with a blonde – an interesting year.       This crappily-colored shot of me and Ronnie Spector was taken in a stairwell at William Paterson College (now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8158,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/8158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}