1988:
Jimmy Swaggart was defrocked after sex with a prostitute, Rush Limbaugh began his syndicated radio show, Salman Rushdie published The Satanic Verses amid controversy and death threats, and Meryl Streep uttered the now-famous line “A dingo! A dingo took my baby,” in the film, A Cry in the Dark.
Tom Cruise still had all his marbles back in ‘88. Rain Man was released, two years after Top Gun, and two years before one of biggest stinkers of all time, Days of Thunder. There was no couch-jumping back in the day, no Xenu-induced rants against psychiatrists. Cruise was cool, if you were a sixteen-year-old white boy that was desperately uncool. I would rather take a Royal Cruise than watch Tom Cruise.
In 1988, a young Stevo, memories of Top Gun’s coolness still fresh in his head, wore Ray Bans and worked at children’s summer camp. Can you find The Stevo in the above photo?
An old friend posted this gem on Facebook. I may fly to Canada, obtain the original (and negative) and dispose of it properly.
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:00 am
Yep, too cool, too cool for school…
but not the remake of Rebel Without A Cause…
R(etc… )
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May 23rd, 2008 at 8:54 am
You were the man of mystery, the chef extrordinaire -
And the glasses, they made the man…
You can run, but you can’t hide from your youth.
And I believe Mr Beveridge is laughing at you, not near you.
The great thing about camp…is that you can destroy all the pictures you want….but somewhere out there there’s a kid ( likely now the CEO of some Bank) who’s wet sleeping bag you concealed, or hand you held at campfire …who remembers you are his hero…sunglasses and all
May 23rd, 2008 at 8:57 am
Still the strong, silent type, eh? Don’t you love trips down memory lane? Thanks for sharing this one Steve!
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May 23rd, 2008 at 9:17 am
You’re the one on the left.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 1:26 pm
You’re easy to spot, and I love the attitude!
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May 23rd, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Captain etc: Yet I am cool and now in school, it boggles the mind.
Guilty Culprit: I’ll get you, and your little dog too.
Carrie: Memory lane can sometime be a painful road to traverse. Not in this case.
Wanda: Your left? My left?
Shawn: And i was so thin.
May 23rd, 2008 at 9:36 pm
You look–catly. I like that.
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May 24th, 2008 at 3:37 am
You’re the cool one. No doubt about it. And a hero too, it seems.
This just reminded me of how old I am.
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May 24th, 2008 at 4:56 am
Robin: You are only as old as you feel.
May 24th, 2008 at 4:57 am
FLC: Catly? Arggg.
May 24th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Oh, this is hilarious. Hopefully stevo still has all his marbles
May 24th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Awwww, you’re just my cute widdle bunny-wunny!
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May 26th, 2008 at 3:44 am
ybones: Most of them.
Jax: I couldn’t ask for more.
May 26th, 2008 at 3:52 am
I’m going to dress you up in doll clothes and pet you.
Sounds much dirtier outside the context of my Skittle post…
May 26th, 2008 at 4:02 am
Jax: Some would say dirty. I would say healthy and inventive. Do I get to wear a dolly diaper? I might have to think about that.
May 27th, 2008 at 12:06 am
I love it. Brings back all of my high school memories. And you were very cute.
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May 27th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Oh don’t do that. .. (dispose of it, I mean.) You really do kind of look like Iceman.
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