Just when I thought the master might have lost it, Bob Egan corrects himself for the win.
You might remember my quest last week to divine the precise location of a photograph of Pussy Galore from 1987 (the one above by Monica Dee). To my mind, the image of Neil Haggerty, Julia Cafritz, Cristina Martinez, Bob Bert and Jon Spencer lounging at a city park chess table and doing rude things with their hands almost CERTAINLY seemed to be shot in Tompkins Square Park. To verify, I went on a little field trip and tried to find the spot, but no dice.
Then, Bob Egan of PopSpots (the veritable Obi Wan Kenobi to my Luke Skywalker), weighed in and suggested that while that very well have been the case, he’d sooner direct me towards the median of Allen Street a few blocks to the south.
Being largely unencumbered with much else to do, I dutifully trekked off to investigate same, only to find Allen Street something of a mysterious red herring. I snapped a few pics to be sure, but nothing completely added up there either. Click here for those results.
Just as I was giving up hope, however, the estimable Mr. Egan wrote back with the following:
Hi Alex, In my rush, I mislabeled Forsythe/Christie as ALlen. From the "sky" they both look alike.. Here's what I meant…
Galvanized by the new possibility, I went down to Forsyth Street this afternoon to take a gander…
Once again, the urban topography has probably changed a great deal since the balmy days of 1987, a year which would have found the 20-year-old me routinely raiding the record stores around downtown, but rarely straying as far east as Forsyth Street, a little strip of badlands that even today retains a whiff of the grim old days.
Sure enough, though, while skulking around the park, looking entirely suspicious to the gaggles of high schoolers gathered in furtive packs, I believe I may have pinpointed the spot Bob directed me to. I wasn’t able to put my hand to the knobby tree pictured to the right of Jon Spencer’s head in Monica Dee’s original photo, but I think this is indeed the very spot.
Take a look....
Here's a wider shot of the same spot....Click to enlarge....
I'm pretty sure this is it, but speak up if you beg to differ.
Here, meanwhile, once again,....is Pussy Galore... PLAY IT LOUD!
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