I HEAR YOU'VE BEEN TO COLLEGE...

In 1985, I moved off the Michigan State University campus and into a pink and brown house with five other fellas. Unfortunately, none of us were photo buffs, and for years after I only had about a half-dozen pictures from that time. Fortunately, I remembered that Dave Desmet, a friend of ours, had shot a couple rolls of 35 at our house for a photography class. I tracked Dave down a couple years back, and to my great delight, found that he had stored those negatives and was still able to make me some new prints for the site.

I am still in touch with most of the people in these pictures, and have even been back to 118 Beech St. a few times since college. Once, nobody was home, so I just went inside and walked around. To my amazement, the ridiculous fish we found in the basement and hung in the living room with one single nail was still up ten years later.

Sadly, my old girlfriend Dawn Rumford, who you'll see in a couple of these pictures, died in a car wreck in Dearborn, MI on April 7th, 1991.


Picture of me with my first decent guitar--a 1974 Fender Stratocaster.
I remember I loved that shirt, too!

That thing on the desk was called a typewriter. Nice shorts I'm wearin'!

Rich Karp and Rob Beck in Rich's nifty fly yellow Triumph Spitfire.

Rob Beck and his old hair. Dig the Costello poster and digital clock.

Rob Beck seeks treatment on the set of "ER" in 2003.

Rob and his wife Rachel at Cantor's Deli.

"If it wasn't for those meddling kids...".

Foolin' around with the gang.

Dawn Rumford and her incredible hair!
Fortunately, it only looked like this for about a week.

Love this one. Rich Karp looking out his window. He had the best room in the house.

Rich leaning out of another window in Sept. 2003! This time, it is of a building he just bought in downtown Lansing, MI. For more info, go here.

Very fond of this one, for obvious reasons.

Calling for reinforcements...

Pictures of the boys. They grow up so fast, don't they?

The guy who took these pictures looks like this:

...and his dorm room at Phillips Hall looked just like this on Feb. 26, 1985!

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