Nothing takes me back to the Fall of 1963 like this album. I was 13 at the time. Most of my friends thought this record was cool. At the very least it was a cultural artifact that you had to deal with in some way, if only to reject it as too weird. It was certainly weird, whatever else you might have thought about it.
Is there anything in our popular culture now that’s capable of challenging 13 year-olds in the same way?
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Whole broiled pompano as served at Lusco’s in Greenwood, Mississippi. A photograph by Lang Clay for Susan Puckett’s Eat Drink Delta: A Hungry Traveler’s Journey Through the Soul of the South (The University of Georgia Press).
[Image © 2013 Langdon Clay]
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Police photo of Johnny Stompanato, stabbed to death in 1958 by his girlfriend Lana Turner’s daughter Cheryl, 14 years-old, who said he was assaulting her mom.
Stompanato was a low-level mob thug with show-business ambitions. Once in England he stormed onto a set where Turner was making a film with Sean Connery. Stompanato brandished a gun — Connery disarmed him and threw him off the set.
. . . with LPs, 1979.
Via Bryan Castañeda.
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