Marianne Grinn, Steve Spencer, Wendy Yelland, Caroline Connolly and her boyfriend Gordy Attenborough. This picture was taken on the stump in the empty yard located next to the Spencer's house. That stump was a kind of base for where we met on 25th Ave. We spent that whole year hanging around the stump.

-My first protest while at Vanier College

-This happened on St. Catherine street in Montreal
and it was something to do with Vietnam

-Marianne Grinn and I at the bottom of the hill at the PLSA in Laval West

-We loved to mess around in the snow

- This was outside my house on 31st street, I was
experimenting with a Polaroid camera

Jackie Gillis and Tony Supper. Here they are along the old Plage Laval beach road just west of the closed Miss Laval Restaurant. It took years before Laval decided to restore the waterfront but no one has ever swam in the river since then due to the pollution.

-Jackie was always happy on the outside but it turns out
she was always struggling with difficult family problems

-Jackie's Mom. She smoked more then any other person I had ever met

-Bernice Powell, we worked together at the Sun Life Building

Marianne and Debbie on Christmas Day 1970. Notice my peace symbol wreath, on the balcony and the height of the snow banks. The wreath idea came from Playboy magazine. I had hidden a copy under my mattress. This was my first experiment with color photography using a Polaroid camera.

 

The First Formal Party

It was high school graduation time and everyone wanted to dress up. This was a party a week before the big dress up night at the Ritz Carlton. This picture is of Allan with Karen Spencer. Karen had a crush on me and was jealous I was in love with Marianne.

-We knew graduation day was coming and we just
wanted to practice dancing and acting like adults

Left to Right:
Wendy Yelland, one of the Powell girls
Marianne Grinn
Jackie Gillis
Bernice Powell
Karen Spencer
Louise Houle

Karen and Steven Spencer at their back door. They had the best above ground pool but used it as a reward item. If you did what they wanted you got to use it. Their parents seldom allowed anyone in the house unless they were home. At the time it seemed odd but the few times we did get in you appreciated they had loads of good stuff.... including a colour television. Compared to the rest of us they were rich. Only the Connolly's seemed as well off but they too never let us kids in the house.

Messing around on the hill behind the PLSA. We went there to slide down the hill as kids, made fools of ourselves, and eventually we got to go to dances there. Notice how Stephen Spencer tormented Marianne. He caused her to trip in the snow all day and she went home soaked. He was real fond of her but so was I.

-My ID Card for the CNR (Canadian National Railroad)

-This commuter card was only good between
Laval Sur le Lac and Cote Vertu station.

Marianne Grinn, my first love. I thought that one day we'd get married. We fooled around a lot in the basement of my house as by then we turned it into a teen hang out where we played music and Ouija board. Marianne and I had a game that involved cellophane and we called it high school. She knows what it means but we never got beyond Grade 9....One cold winter day I discovered her mother wanted to move to the western Canada real fast. By that time I was so engrossed in college life that I let Marianne slip away. It all happened so fast and I never kept in contact till I found her brother on-line in 2001.

Great friend Ronnie Mountain and his girlfriend Mandy. The gang had broken up and I was now living with my dad on 5th Ave in Laval West. Ronnie was from England and lived down the road. Notice my home made speakers with psychedelic labels? I also had that spiral poster with fluorescent orange and red colors on the wall. I don't know how my dad put up with this all as he slept in the same room.

Ronnie and Mandy kissed all the time and they both loved "smoking up." They introduced me to marijuana and LSD. I acted like I enjoyed it but I was very paranoid about the police and going to jail even though the biggest drug pusher in Laval lived in the house behind me and sold buckets of pills from a tent he set up in his back yard. The LSD actually came from Ronnies friend Mike McGoogan who we met on the commuter train. We tried it twice but I hated it. I was actually scared to go in my back yard that year at all. I was sure that guy was going to hook me on something really bad but as it is he finally got arrested.

Ronnie Mountain. We were both doped up. I remember this day as his mother had told us that she and her girlfriend were walking on the back rd and UFO's were chasing them. Soon after that Ronnie, Mandy and I went down the road and thought we saw UFO lights on one of the holes at the Laval sur le lac Golf Club. We flipped out and raced back to my bedroom to listen to Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" album, a record that Granny Oakley bought me as the store clerk at the Roxy Restaurant reccomended it to her. He said it was the best. She thought it was religious rock and roll as the word Sabbath implied. The Roxy turned in to a very large stereo supply store and the small restaurant bar was soon forgotten.

The Anita Pictures

I don't know why but I filmed Anita more then anyone else I have ever met. She was very mysterious to me and wore black a lot of the time. She was the first real person I came to know as a free spirit. Kind of a hippie with class.

-Anita Vandervan 1970

-Anita and the beach pictures

-Experimenting with my new Canon camera

Anita took this picture of me in a tree in Fabreville. She had a keen eye for it's dramatic scenery and knew I liked black and white filming

-At the beach in Laval West - Supposed to be falling

-Anita was pretending to be dead

My favorite picture of Anita. Got ruined a little but I actually sold this picture to the Montreal Gazette as they thought she had classic beauty. What Anita does not know is that i kept the $40 and bought new Rossignol ski's

-The John Lennon picture
-A rare moment that changed my life