Rogues’ Gallery

The NYPD Rogues’ Gallery in 1909. Photographer unknown. Photo held at the Library of Congress.

To celebrate the return of the County Championship after its now traditional summer break, here’s the new page I’ve been going on about for almost a month.

I think I should point out that the title of this page is not mine but of a contributor who will remain nameless. I was thinking of calling it Team Photo but went rogue.

Please read all the text here before commenting so we can have a bit of fun.

Below are photos of people when they were kids, up to 18 years old, people who post, or have posted, comments on here from time to time. There may be additions later from people who didn’t get in touch quite in time and I’ll add them as and when they arrive. Some people sent more than one photo and they’re all here. There may also be a special guest appearance.

This all stems from an idea I had during an exchange about a photograph of Olivia Newton-John, Helen Reddy, Minnie Riperton and Linda Ronstadt playing tennis in the early 70s, and Billy said “They look so young”, I replied “I looked young once” and Thamessider replied to me, saying “Just the once?”.

The photos are in a randomish order, without names, and only I know who everyone is. Please don’t admit to being the owner of your own photograph or tell the story behind it for a while, so people can have a few guesses and so on, until I say GO! This may be a couple of days, maybe a week as some people aren’t able to log in every day because of w**k and everything – we’ll see how it goes.

Many many thanks to everyone who sent a photo, and I am very aware (because they told me) there are others who aren’t able to send photos for a very wide variety of reasons.

If anyone wants their photo taking down they only have to tell me. No questions asked.

Here we go. I hope it all comes out all right as I’ve never done most of this formatting stuff before:

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Here, it’s the one on the left.

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Here, it’s also the one on the left.

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Here, it’s the one on the right.

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This time, it’s the one on the left.

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Once more, it’s the one on the right.

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I’ve put these two lovely photos together as it’s obviously the same person, and… it’s the one on the right.

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