Jan 102019
Thanks to a snarky Fark photoshopping thread, here’s a Flickr page full of 1970’s 8X10 glossies of hopeful entertainers… who, I imagine, have been all of them all but forgotten by history.
the kriegsmann files
On one level they’re kinda funny… goofy lookin’ people in bad 70’s fashions with bad 70’s hair styles. On the other hand… here are people who had dreams of fame and glory, and who were they? But then look at any high school football or basketball tam, filled with kids with dreams of going pro: dreams that will come to a screeching halt with a broken ankle or a realization of a lack of adequate talent.
Still… go take a look and behold the wonders of the perm and the polyester leisure suit.
More than a decade ago NPR ran a piece on this: