Monday, August 1, 2011

It was 30 year ago today...

Photo credit:  Janusch Family Archives, copyright 1981

A rousing, rollicking mariachi band serenades those fortunate enough
 to be in attendance at the Marion-Dominguez wedding reception,
 August 1, 1981.  Note Richard Gump in background, staring
 starry-eyed into the horizon, wishing that he, too, had been born
 Mexican, so that he, too, could have become a mariachi man and
 have performed at weddings and wakes and birthdays and
 anniveraries like this lucky quintet.  

It was just moments after this photo was shot that he snapped
suddenly out of his reverie, ran over and grabbed Mary Ella,
 and dragged her to the driveway-dance  floor.  There,
 the two of them put on a wild disco-dancing display to the oddly
  compatable Mexican music concert behind them, the likes of
which nobody who witnessed it would ever see again....



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