I went to college in the Fall of 1975. While I've always been shy around girls, I had no problem asking if I could take their picture. "It's a portrait assignment. Can I take your picture?"

I have lots of photos of Ellen. She was very photogenic.

It's so nice to come home from work to a new batch of scanned images. It starts awakening all these forgotten memories. 

The Girl on the Corner of Washington Square Park Playing Guitar.

This is Marilyn Kirby, as per her guitar case. (good marketing) She was playing to a large crowd on the south-west corner of Washington Square Park. She was very good.

As I'm working on this scan, cleaning up dust specks in the image (which can take 10 to 60 minutes an image), I start wondering what happened in her life after this? Did she find success as a musician? Did she move back to Ohio and buy a record store? If she's still alive, she's certainly a grandma now.

I wonder if I can find her. A quick Google and I've found a record store owner in Ohio named Marilyn Kirby. (What a coincidence!:) There were other search results as well. It won't be easy, but I'm going to see if I can track Marilyn Kirby from 1980 down.

If she's married and changed her last name before the internet got going, then it will be virtually impossible to find her. If she kept it as a stage name, then I might get lucky and find her. I hope she's not all bitter and miserable. I hope life was good to her.

(On Fridays I will post digital images, then take the week-end off, then get back to scans on Mondays.)

Here's some photos from this years Mermaid Parade. It was like Halloween only in day-light and nicer. You can see more of my photos from the parade at Facebook. (I was going to use Flickr, but they required me to reduce the size of my photos before I could upload them. Facebook just accepted the photos as they were.)

Here's some images from in and around Central Park in the early 80s.

The school blood drive was my first photo assignment for the college yearbook.