Thanksgiving Day morning in Woburn Mass. was time for the traditional football competition between the adjacent towns of Winchester & Woburn. I remember  that #54′s nickname was “Butch.” I don’t  remember his last name.

The camera was my 4/5″ Speed Graphic with a Graphex shutter and a 4.7 Ektar 127mm Kodak Lens. Yes, Kodak  did make some lenses during wartime. There was no chrome on this camera..all  flat black. It was the  wartime model.

The negative & the original print have disappeared, but I am still here and was able to scan from the first yearbook at our high school which I miraculously still have. I was the photographer…big surprise.

So Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends in the States. I think Woburn won the game.

george

Bourbon Street, New Orleans 1955, published by Les Editions du Passage, Montreal is now available at the MOMA Bookstore in New York, museum bookstores in Montreal, and in the signed book collections offered by my dealers. The text is in English, French, Spanish & Japanese and the printing was supervised on several sleepless nights by myself. The price is $60.