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70s Group
FOUND by Eric Lingafelter
in Wichita, Kansas
A friend found this photo in the gutter downtown one day. Who are the girls? And who is the "token male?"
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Oh, this is great! I love love love this photo! I hope someone puts it in "Hey That's Me!" Surely one of these six people will cruise by foundmagazine today, and recognize herself/himself!
You call that a *token* male???
GAG!
Long sleeves and shortshorts! A better era.
What's up with back left person?
Maybe they're sisters and brother.
To the youngsters out there: those shorts on the front girl were called "hot pants". No lie.
PS Thanks for magnification on this one, James. xx
I think the back person is wearing a fake mustache.
Or maybe the 5 girls were posing, and some random guy saw them and snuck up behind them and got in the photo before anyone noticed.
I hate to be a tattle-tale, but you guys in the midwest are up awfully late! Goodnight and sweet dreams! I'm pretty sure I'll be dreaming about these six mysterious 1970s people.
It's Johnny Depp
I think it's so -- I think that is a "token male" -- or at least a "tokin'" male!!
I think the girl in hotpants is Monica!
Bill, the guy in the back (who alternated all afternoon between trying to get a peek down someone's top, and staring at the tight butts and long legs surrounding him) kept this picture for years, fantasizing about what could have happened that day if he had stepped in line behind Debbie and her hot pants, rather than behind Mary Catherine.
"Hey, I was wearing my muscle shirt! She would have noticed I was pretty hot. ..."
Anyone want to name all these kids, left to right?
I'll bet the guy in the back is the author of list on the other find of the day.
Yep.. that's what I'm thinking.
Some guy--that's exactly what I was thinking--a young Johnny Depp with his entourage of ladies. "Debbie" looks like someone I know . . .
this could easily be us.
I'm with the Johnny Depp camp. Very cool picture!
This group photo was taken just before Mike (far left in the photo that's not his politics) drove this bunch to the school in his parents station wagon to catch the bus for a school trip to Washington DC. Next to him is his sister Debbie. Next is Tammi and she dots the 'i' in her name with a heart. Becky is the girl in the middle and she is the one who always brings the pot. She won't let this gang down for this trip. Next is Cathy and you won't believe this but she has rolling papers in her purse. The next girl is Laurie. She's the one who meets the guys. Cathy is usually happy to have her 'throw aways'.
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What was that song again, Librarian?
i swear to god, puckhog, that pic looks a lot like me at that age. God i wish i could wear those shorts again.
Four jolly girls out having fun, and their drab bespectacled friend that nobody really likes but they feel sorry for - 'Oh, I'll just tag along, it's OK, I'll keep at the back out of the way -- oh, is it all right if I bring my brother?'
Or he could of course be their very young and recently qualified college tutor, desperately trying to look older by growing a tash.
Actually I think he's Garrison Keillor.
The downside of Hotpants is Thunder thighs!
The dude looks like R Crumb to me.
Laurie goes by Laura now.
The chick in the hot pants looks like Jodie Foster. Maybe this is the publicity photo for "Foxes II: The B-Team".
It's definitely NOT, but the chick with the weed in her bag (the one in the black and yellow striped shirt) reminds me a LOT of my oldest sister at that age. (the hair, the nose, the attitude.)
And I think I'd name the dude Danny.
Not much to be found on the Finder, except for an graphic designer's webpage pending renewal, and
http://tinyurl.com/6cok66
this guy, who's from Witchita, and lists Eric Lingafelter as one of his influences. Hmmm. Veddy intedesting.
Oh my god! There's finally a Find from my hometown and I swear on my life I think the chick behind hot-pants-girl is my MOM! Ok, now I have to email a link to this page to her and find out for sure...
Ok, I googled Eric too and this is what came back... Nice picture, I think someone fancies himself a playboy. =)
http://tinyurl.com/65kjg8
LOL... niiiiiice facebook pic.
HOLY TOLEDO, Rebel, Please let us know if it's your Mom.. wouldn't that be a kick in the butt!
Mousey star shirt girl's shirt would go great with http://foundmagazine.com/find/2188
his pants.
@ not just another mouth ... okay, the moustache makes him "not like the others", but I'm wondering whether he isn't also wishing he could carry one of those huge shoulder bags. (not that there's anything wrong with that!)
BTW, song lyrics are at:
http://tinyurl.com/y8x7qm
I agree with Jonathan--those two at the end are a dorky bro' and sis combo.
I am DIGGIN' on those hot pants! However, when she sits down, they are going to dig a deep ridge in her upper thighs. Ouch! (or maybe another, um, area--double ouch!)
oh mlm... been there, for sure. that's why you don't sit down.
ok, hands up, who here has laid down on the bed to do up their jeans. 'no, mom, they're not too tight.'
Librarian, yes. I do want to name them left to right. I'm gonna do it before reading comments to see if anyone else did, so I won't be influenced. Then I'm gonna check to see if we have any in common. (I already saw Mary Catherine, Debbie, and Monica. I am trying not to be influenced.)
Steve
Pamela
Patty
Kathy
Laurie
Debbie
In reality, three of them were probably named Kathy, though.
@Oh, that could so be me! We picked the same name for Laurie! She does SO look like a Laurie!
Rebel, is your mom's name Laurie? If so, I'd say it's definitely her!
Hey, when I was 14 I wanted to be a model, and I did actually wear hot pants in a department store fashion show once. Red velveteen. There was a dressy white blouse and a red velveteen matching jacket. It looked like a dressy pantsuit with the legs cut off. I did not want to wear that, but that's what the store wanted me to wear. I thought it was stupid-looking. I never wore hot pants again.
@Clover--Yes, I would think the trauma of being forced to wear RED VELVETEEN(!), not to mention a matching jacket (ha!) would make you not want to wear hot pants again! (sorry, I'm getting a mental picture of that outfit and it sends me into gales of giggles!)Reminds me of the tablecloth jacket girl!
@Mona- Yes, I would lie on the bed AND use either a coat hanger or pliers to get certain pairs of jeans closed. Jeans that were so tight they would give you saddlebags when you sat down! I'm glad I'm not such a slave to fashion anymore(heehee)! I'm all about comfort while looking tasteful...
It's kind of hard to see them all, but all the girls but one have shoulder bags. The girl in front of the boy looks like she's ready to sling her purse back and whack that guy if he says anything questionable.
And yeah, Librarian, it does look like the guy might like to carry one, too. Maybe he does, and he set it down before the photo was taken. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I have one of those brown leather purses, still. I kept it cuz it's soo cool. But it weighs a ton even with nothing in it.
I think it looks like three of the girls have dimples in their chins. That's a cute feature.
I guess I've made too many comments today. It's just there's so much to say about this great photo!
@Oh, this could so be me.. I guess i messed up. Our Laurie's are not the same. My Pamela is your Debbie and my Debbie is your Laurie. Your Becky is my Kathy. My Laurie is your Cathy. But we chose three of the same names.. what are the chances of that happening???
Librarian's List:
Mike
Debbie
Tammi
Becky
Cathy
Laurie
Clover's List:
Steve
Pamela
Patty
Kathy
Laurie
Debbie
If you change Laurie to Laura, I think one of those lists names my mom and her sisters. She also has a brother, but his name is not Steve or Mike.
The girl in the Daisy Dukes looks like one of my daughter's friends, could be her mom.
The guy's name is probably Steve, and they only hang with him because he has a car. He loves having all these chicks in his car, and doesn't really care that they're just using him for free transport...as he is using them for free street cred. (They didn't call it that, then. It was "cool.")
Two of those girls have got to be named Chris, the second one spells it Kriss; and the other two, one is Melissa and the other is Susan.
Just like 80% of the girls I went to highschool with in the 70's.
So that's twice at least that Johnny Depp has turned up on found, he was also photographed about three years later once he'd grown into his face and started to realise he was pretty, so went to hang out in cuba. (found 4335) I think he looks more like R Crumb here too though
Okay, the dude is Duane, and I agree, he is totally just around because he has a car...the girls...from left to right:
Lois, Sherry, Kathy, Anne (or possibly Susan) and Donna. And probably ALL of them have pot in their purses...I mean it was the 70's!
Lois is totally uptight, look how she is holding her purse and her body language. Sherry is the tom boy. Kathy is daddy's favorite but a little skeeze and she wears glasses but was sticking them in her purse for this picture. Anne/Susan (Suzanne, perhaps) is younger but likes to hang out with the older girls. Donna, well, she likes to be the center of attention, but she doesn't put out, she is a total tease.
Whoa, those kids are OUTTA SIGHT!
Johnny Depp! LMAO!!!
Anybody wanna bet that Steve/Mike/Duane drives a bitchin' Camaro?
Maybe in his dreams he drove a Camaro. In reality, my money's on a '68 Impala.
Clover--I think it's funny we picked almost the same names. It's even funnier you mentioned all the Kathys/Cathys. There were a ton of Cathys in my school but only one Kathy (moi!).
So if that was really me and my gang (and in all seriousness it truly could be) our names would be Nancy, Sara, Lori, Dana and Kathy.
I definitely was the one who was happy to catch Lori's 'throw aways'. Still am! (Just kidding)
Have you figured out who I am?
Whoever said the girl in the front is a Debbie is totally dead-on. There is no doubt, HER NAME IS DEBBIE! The guy in the back is clearly a Steve.
He's a Steve without question. I'm also certain he's a homosexual porn star. Again, not that there's anything wrong with that...
Also, the second girl from the left, the one with the star on her shirt is Jan. Her mother is the music teacher at the local high school.
...'cept I'm the ugliest girl there. Wah! I wanna do-over.
Did anyone notice that Tammi/Patty and Becky/Kathy are wearing POW bracelets? I wore a POW bracelet too - I wore if far longer than most did - in fact I still have it. According to the registry, my guy never came home. I wonder if theirs did?
Wow, Dimples.. I hate to hear that. Sorry for your loss
How can you tell that they're POW bracelets? (and I'm not trying to be cheeky or disrespectful- to me they just look like silver bracelets. I know nothing about the POW bracelets.)
Too many never came home, too many came home fucked up (in various ways) for life.
front girl in hot pants (short shorts) is most definetly a Debbie
I'm thinking that one of the middle girls is a Rhonda...
Why O Why would one throw this pic out ?!?!... This one is worthy of being enlarged and framed on the wall !!!
The bummer about this pic is that some teenaged girl probably stole it from her Mom's photoalbum so that she and her friends could study and and get that "real" 70's look down (since so much of the, um.. "fashion" from those days is making a comeback...) AND LOST IT!!!
The good news is that her Mom can get another copy of it HERE!
Sad to say, it's not my mom... But as I was reading all the lists of names, you guys made me laugh. My mom's name is Ann, her sisters are Susan and Blythe, and her 2 best friends (she met them back then and they're still BFF today!) are Laurie and Julie. I never really thought about how dated those names are.
One of them has to be named "Linda."
L to R
Ricky (Lives in S.F. with husband Kenny. Shaved 'stache in '78. Survived the AIDS horror. Happier today than ever.Considered very handsome in the community.)
Linda (Sold a lot of amphetamines. Runs trucking company with husband Paul, has 2 kids.)
Sandy (After law school failed bar 4 times, works mid-level management in insurance. Married Ian for his British accent. Still thinks sex is kind of " icky.")
Leann (Followed Grateful Dead 7 yrs. selling hand-made tie-dyed clothing, then opened Dachshund rescue farm near Santa Fe. Poses vegetarian, but, secretly has fortnightly bacon feasts. Doesn't share with dogs.)
Carolyn (Arrested as drug courier in Wichita [lost this photo in process,] found Jesus in jail. Lives in N.C. and works in office of a "Christian Academy." Better than you and I and unbearable.)
Dina (Way easy. Eventually moved to Alaska and tends bar in that has only one road in or out and the road to her cabin gets more traffic. Still thinks she looks like this. Looks more like Roseanne Barr with a hangover.)
I LOVE THIS FIND!!
Pick me up off the floor...
I think "steve" sneaked in before the picture was taken..like he was hiding out until the right moment.
p.s. the girl in the hotpants HAS to be wearing some really cool boots.
The thing is, though, that this photo was taken when these kids were about to leave for the week-long World Missions Conference sponsored by their Methodist Church youth group.
No one looks as attractive as they think they do, in shorts.
@ sick in tired: except Kylie Minogue.
@ Jack straw: I think you're right, it IS R Crumb -- checking out the bean bodies. By breakfast time he will have had all these girls, and will be engaged to the dorky one with the galsses because she is also a cartoonist. Their marriage won't last though.
*glasses*
8-(
@They are in my age group- They are just a little bit older than I am, but I have 3 older brothers, so I'm familiar. I think your synopsis was hilarious! And probably somewhat accurate...
@Oh! It could so be me and my friends @4:19PM.. yes.
(Haha, almost time to break out the contents of those purses! Just one more photo first!)
If this were me and my friends in high school, their names would be Dottie, Sandy, Maris, Maggie, Aggie, Becky and Cindy. We were all pairs of sisters, one year apart in age, except Maris, whose sister was a year older and out of high school. Maggie and Aggie were sisters. Dottie and Sandy were sisters. Becky and Cindy were sisters. I guess that's too many girls for this picture.. and you guys know what Dottie looked like, and she isn't in this pic.. and anyway, we had our own cars (well i mean, we drove our parents' cars). We didn't need a boy for that.
@Lee, my sister's name is Jan, and she IS the high school music teacher!
@Dimples, you're right about the POW bracelets! Most of my friends listed above wore them. I wonder if theirs ever came back. I didn't wear one because I don't like to wear bracelets or jewelry in general; it bugs me. Plus the whole Vietnam war thing was so depressing. I didn't want to be reminded of someone's suffering every time I looked down at my wrist. However, I admired and respected those who were able to do so.
@fooch! You get to visit Found while at camp?? How great is that!!
I was so bummed yesterday when I couldn't stay, and I couldn't wait to come back and see what everyone had written after I had to leave.. I love this fantastic photo and I love reading all the stuff everyone has said about it! The shade on a sunny day, the smiles, the big purses, the divination about what these kids were like and where they ended up. I cannot believe that this pic was let go to wind up in a gutter in Wichita. Thank goodness it was rescued. I so hope that we get a "Hey that's me!"
We weren't allowed to wear bracelets of any kind at my school, because apparently admin thought bracelets too "distracting!" (??) So a classmate brought "MIA--won't go away" stickers and we plastered our notebooks and folders with them instead.
Not at all the same, but the best we could do in middle school.
No bracelets sounds kind of extreme, baby basil. What kind of school did you go to? Now, students aren't allowed to wear spikes or hanging chains.. natch. But bracelets? Maybe they were afraid you'd wrap the bracelet chains around your knuckles and fight with them.
I think at least two of these girls are wearing Dr. Scholl's sandals. The original kind with the wooden sole that felt like you were walking on golf balls the first couple of days you wore them. Ouch.
Or clogs--they could have on clogs. OR Bass--the ones with the big gigantic rubber soles that were sort of like a modified platform. Platforms! Yes!! They could be wearing platforms. I had wallabees (sp?) too. They had crepe soles and squeaked when you walked.
I need to mow my lawn. Why am I lingering here?
The girl on the far left is wearing Earth Shoes, I'd bet.
Earth Shoes--of course! How could I have forgotten?
At least one girl wears Charlie and at least one girl wears Love's Baby Soft. Wonder if those are still made?
Most of these girls also smoke but only with each other and NEVER in the girls bathroom at school because only the burnouts smoke in the bathroom at school. If their parents find cigs in their purse they just say they belong to 'so and so' whose parents would be so pissed if they knew she smoked.
They all live and die by Seventeen Magazine and use Bonnie Bell Ten-O-Six and Lipsmackers.
I think girls in high school now read Cosmo and girls in grade school read Seventeen.
(Just kidding about that last part I don't even know if Seventeen is even still in print but I was serious about the Cosmo part. Me? I just drink them.)
@Still remember in g the '70s.. Haha! What you said about Charlie.. I don't know if they make it anymore, but I found a bottle in some stuff that was donated to our class auction, never opened. I wear it frequently. Whenever I put it on, I get a flashback to the department store where I worked when I was 18! I think Seventeen is still in print, but not in that same large format. Even back then we started reading it at 11 or 12 and it no longer held our interest by the time we were 17. Remember when Sybill Sheppard was on the cover? That's who I wanted to look like.
Wow! I didn't even know they finally posted this. I sent it to FOUND about 5 months ago, and completely forgot about it. I too wonder if some teenage girl swiped this out of her mom's photo album and then lost it.
And I'm not the guy on Facebook in Ohio, sorry. We just happen to share the same name.
http://foundmagazine.com/comments/422
Look familiar?
Seriously, how far is Munster, IN from Witchita, KS?