Let's see those old photographs

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adj2ent

adj2ent

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Let’s see some of those oldest photographs from your DJ business. I was working on a photo book for my guys, putting together photos of them from my early years. It seemed first I didn’t take many business pictures in High School. Luckily I made it inside my yearbook, a Full page photo and also photos from my first really big party, my High School Senior Dinner in 1978. Unfortunately, they were not using DJs at our prom in 1978. Instead they had 2 bands, one Disco and one for the cocktail hr. Turns out my 45th High School reunion is in June, everyone just meeting at a local night spot.
The second photo was about a year later in 1979. Within a year all the equipment was upgraded and a DJ console I build with orange carpet was in use. You got to love the orange carpet.
 

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I have very few from back in the day I will see what I can dig up
 
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Dug this one out it is an old newspaper clipping from 1990 I did a 60 hour straight song a thon for charity in one of the local malls. The photographer told me to look tired

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Interesting side note I believe I still have everything that is in that picture except the hair and the sweater ;) It hasn't been in use in a long long time though
 
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60 hours, yea I bet you were tired. I did a 24-hour Star Wars marathon and we had three breaks where we can go out and get something to eat, I was beat after 24 hrs. The most I’ve been almost continually going was when we were doing events in Philadelphia, PA as part of the Greekfest. My company was doing two evening events and another NY DJ was doing a day event in the park. We had a hotel room for a couple of nights. What they didn’t tell me was that there were around 15 people also using the room. Hence no sleep for like 48 hours, I drove home 2 hrs after the last event and fell asleep on the living room floor, couldn’t make it up the stairs to the bedroom. I’m still going through the slides/photos I had digitized my father had stored away that I’ve never seen.

Here is another photo from college. What simply amazes me is how small my record collection was back then. Two crates, a toolbox of 45s, and a couple of cassette tapes, yet I had enough music to keep them dancing for 4 hours or more.
 

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Here's a pic from 22 years ago and 5 years before my leukemia diagnosis. Back then, I was known for teaching or guiding guests in various line dances. I had about 15 in my arsenal with The Hustle being one of the most popular.

I am much thinner now and my hair is kept clean shaven since it tends to grow back sparsley.
 

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I really, really wish I had thought to get pictures taken of me deejaying in my early days. My cell phone at the time did not even have a camera on it. I think my first cell with a camera on it was purchased in 2006. I did have a 3x5' of me in a Tuxedo doing a college formal ball in 2002, but that picture was lost a long time ago.

Here is an old one, and I believe I posted this one before. This was taken at a Sweet 16 party or maybe it was a Batmitzvah. The more I think about it, I think it was a Mitzvah. Not sure what the year was, but I know I was hauling my equipment in the 2007 Cobalt SS at the time. It was either 2007 or 2008/2009. The dancer I hired for that Bat mitzvah to help me took the picture, and I believe it was with a 3.0 or 4.0 Megapixel Digital Camera I had at the time. I remember this party. They brought in a Production Company to handle the lighting back when Totems/Moving Heads at mobile events was a new thing (At least it was a new thing for me). I think they had six 9 ft totems brought in for this. They were tall totem stands.

JBL JRX SPeakers with a QSC RMX1450 amp, and when I was still using CDs with my Numark CD Mix Station. Toshiba Laptop with the new Windows VISTA Operating System. I believe this was the first laptop I was deejaying with! I had Virtual DJ 2.0 installed on it!

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Lol, cell phones, I come from the era of Kodak Instamatic and polaroid cameras. Ask my kids, they say I used stone tablet & chisel. I was very lucky one of my friends/DJ partner for three years was photographer. I think he has all the high school DJ photos. He got me into photography and when I was in college. I picked up a 35mm camera and took some photography classes although there we shot all black & white. We had to develop the film & print/mount the photos. The hardest & most time consuming two classes I took, harder than my engineering classes. I’m in the process of converting over my father color slides from the early 70s’, so many photos nobody’s see before. About 1/2 are done now , another 500 to go.
 
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Lol, cell phones, I come from the era of Kodak Instamatic and polaroid cameras. Ask my kids, they say I used stone tablet & chisel. I was very lucky one of my friends/DJ partner for three years was photographer. I think he has all the high school DJ photos. He got me into photography and when I was in college. I picked up a 35mm camera and took some photography classes although there we shot all black & white. We had to develop the film & print/mount the photos. The hardest & most time consuming two classes I took, harder than my engineering classes. I’m in the process of converting over my father color slides from the early 70s’, so many photos nobody’s see before. About 1/2 are done now , another 500 to go.
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Once my son asked me if I was around when Jesus was born
 
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Here are a few pics post treatment - one mc'ing an anniversary dance a few months before I retired. Big change in appearance. Not surprisingly, my bookings went down after my diagnosis. And I'm ok with that. I had a really good run.
 

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Here is a pic of the radio station I got my start at. I wasn't in the pic so I blocked the face of the person. The pic was actually taken in 1988, 7 years after I left but the gear seems the same. We had the dual Revox B77s tape decks and we did live delays by recording off one machine and playing off the other while looping the tape between them so we had ~7 seconds. It amounted to about a ~4' loop at 7.5 IPS. We did a lot of programming with cart machines and you can see the cart machines and stacks of carts on them and behind the person in the photo. They could be setup to auto-play but unless you were familiar with the station IDs or PSAs, you couldn't always trust that they contained the sub-tone for the auto-start. I'm not sure if those were the tables we used as I can't see enough of them. I just remember the direct-drive motor alone on those things was 10-15lbs. There was no crossfader but you never beat matched on the radio back then anyhow. You would do talk-overs instead. The countdown clock for that was on the other side of the board.

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BTW, Judd Apatow got his start here but he was several years past my time there.
 
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