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    Posted 3 years ago

    Jazzres
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    Is it Buddy Holly? I purchased this for a few dollars. The online dealer simply advertised this as a photo booth photo. I however had a strong intuition that it is none other than Buddy Holly. The slicked rock and roll hair the iconic glasses. The trajectories of his face. Even the mohair sweater seems spot on. Except the back of the photo has a date something something 65’. Ummmm. That doesnt work out correct. Unless this is a mandela effected article and the assange trump time travels have mucked up the timeline so that the day rock and roll died never happened. Lol what do you all think?

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    1. keramikos, 3 years ago
      Jazzres, I don't think those photo booth pictures of the guy wearing a fuzzy sweater are Buddy Holly.

      The hair looks quite straight, which I suppose could be hair products, or the weather. Holly's hair was always wavy.

      Futher, the nose is simply wrong. It has a slightly concave curve to its profile, whereas Holly's had a slightly convex curve:

      https://www.npr.org/2011/09/07/140246806/buddy-holly-at-75-a-tribute-to-an-unlikely-star
    2. Jazzres Jazzres, 3 years ago
      Well the nose is thing of gaze trajectory as the photobooth subject has his chin up. If it isnt buddy holly i would say the kid macks on his style rather well. It could be a younger buddy holly putting much effort at a slicked pompe dior hair style. One thing i know is that things arent what they seem. Its good to be skeptical while keeping an open mind,
    3. Jazzres Jazzres, 3 years ago
      It would of been a different world if Buddy hadnt of died. But then again the vacuum of his abscence prob was essential for the beatles, hendrix to occur. Mandela effect has it where subtle seemingly inconsequential things get altered in consensual timeline reality due to time travel manipulation from a few individuals. John Trumps lift of Nikoli Teslas papers after his passing. Look it up. A rabbit hole of epic proportions.
    4. Jazzres Jazzres, 3 years ago
      Wow. Just read this. Far out indeed, https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/buddy-holly-waylon-jennings-photobooth/
    5. Jazzres Jazzres, 3 years ago
      My guess now is that it is someones bizarre tribute to Holly.
    6. Gillian, 3 years ago
      The third photo is the same as the one in keramikos' link.
    7. Jazzres Jazzres, 3 years ago
      Just the first one is the one i discovered.
    8. keramikos, 3 years ago
      Gillian, D'oh! That was not intentional on my part. >8-0

      I was just trying to cough up a good picture of Holly for comparison purposes, and failed to notice that it was the same.
    9. keramikos, 3 years ago
      Jazzres, I suppose it could be a tribute, but it also seems possible that it was just a young man having his picture taken in one of those photo booths, because that's what young people did back then.

      He does seem a bit square-looking for 1965, but some young people in 1965 did look square, depending on their background.

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