Nice Outsider socks...

[cirerita]

SSIA!

 

[Johannes]

Hehe. Yeah. I know this picture from somewhere, but can't remember. I think it was in one of the documentations?

By the way, I didn't know what SSIA means and googled it.

Do you mean:

- Subject Says It All

- So Sorry In Advance

or

- Shoe Service Institute of America?

:)

 

[LickTheStar]

Great photo! Thanks cire.

 

[d gray]

whoa check out Mr. BMOC - any idea how old he is there?

 

[bospress.net]

Outsider was 1961-1969, but this is probably from the 1962 issue (Abel can confirm). If so, then he is no older than 42 in that photo. He looks to be in his mid-30's to me....

If this is from his college days then he would have been in his early 20's, but he looks older to me than 21.
Bill

 

[d gray]

i always thought he looked older than he was - his high school yearbook photo is outrageous compared to his classmates - but yeah, hard to believe he's early 20's there.

 

[hank solo]

Bukowski was 18 when his year book photo was taken.

 

[bospress.net]

This photo is from Outsider, right? If so, then it is not necessarily from his high school. It could also be from when he attended college.
Bill

 

[d gray]

Bukowski was 18 when his year book photo was taken.

i'm always taken aback when i see that yearbook page with him and classmates - it looks like someone
slipped a picture of the janitor in by mistake :D

 

[bospress.net]

Exactly. He was out of his time even then.

A friend of mine ran into Robert Crumb in the mid-60's in Cleveland at a party. He mentioned how he stuck out even then. He dressed like an old man with an old man hat. Not at ALL like those around him. This is how I see Buk in H.S.

Bill

 

[cirerita]

That pic is from The Outsider #1, but I bet Bukowski sent the Webbs an old pic for the contributors' page. I didn't bother to take a look at the photo credit -if any- when I was in in Buffalo and I don't have a copy of this issue, but a few users here might actually have it.

 

[mjp]

Well if you needed any confirmation that Bukowski was a pimp, there it is. He looks like he's just slapped some sense into someone in that picture.

 

[Bukfan]

Nice pic of Buk from when he was starting to be well known in poetry circles.
Thanks, cirerita...

 

[roni]

[...] that yearbook page [...] looks like someone slipped a picture of the janitor in [...]

some others must have felt the same ...


"I'm the night custodian. Get your ass out of here before I call the cops!"
"What for? This is the Senior Prom and I'm a senior."
"Bullshit!" he said. "You're at least 22 years old!"

(Ham On Rye, chpt. 44)



nice pic cire. Thanks!

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

Argyle socks?