Heimskringla 1988

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The Heimskringla 1988 is the first yearbook I’ve seen that has a price on the cover. It cost $20. Now a yearbook will cost, a minimum, twice that. I do see one school that wanted $95 for their 2025 yearbook.

This yearbook is for Pittsford Mendon HS. Every student got their picture in this yearbook but the underclasses pictures are very small. Some of the seniors also have a picture that looks like they were from kindergarten. It looks like about 220 seniors graduated in 1988.

I made a editorial decision to get rid of the writing on the end papers and fly leafs. They were completely covered with writing. There is still a lot of writing on the title page, sports header page, and a few other pages.

See pages 26 – 27 for a review of the events of 1987. One thing noted is that the world population in 1987 was 5 billion people. It is now over 8 billion.

There are 19 pages of ads. 1988 doesn’t seem that long ago but a lot of the businesses from that time no longer exist.

 

 

Hit Songs of 1975 – #24

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Linda Ronstadt had her second hit in 1975 with an old song, “When Will I Be Loved.” The song was written by Phil Everly. The Everly Brothers had a Top 10 hit with the song in 1960. Linda would make the song her own with her great delivery.

“When Will I Be Loved” got up to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks (June 15 -28). It got up to the top spot on the Cash Box Top 100 chart for the week of June 15 – 21.

Linda would release her version of “Heat Wave ” later in 1975. It managed to get up to #5 on the Billboard chart.

Linda’s rock-and-roll image was as famous as her music as she appeared six times on the cover of Rolling Stone and on the covers of Newsweek and Time. Linda was said to be the “highest-paid woman in rock” in the late 1970s. In the early 1980s she did a stint as the lead of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance plus release more successful albums.

Linda retired in 2011 and in 2013 she revealed she had Parkinson’s disease and could “no longer sing a note.”

New Online Newspapers

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NYS Historic Newspapers has added some new newspapers to their online collection.

Jewish Tidings was published weekly from Feb. 5, 1887 to Jan. 12 1894 for a total of 354 issues.

Jewish Ledger is available online from Sept. 27, 1924 to Dec. 23, 1993 (3406 issues). This is also a weekly newspaper. Sources online say this newspaper is still being published.  But it appears that it ceased being published in either 2019 or 2020.

These two publication will be very helpful to members of the Rochester area Jewish community.  The online versions were created from microfilms in the NY State Library.

Also now available are these very early Rochester newspapers:

You can search these titles by entering a term in the search box of that newspaper’s web page. Or you can search all newspapers from the NYS Historic Newspapers home page.

Those issues of the Democrat from 1840 to 1847 have been available on Fulton History but not the earlier issues. Again these were digitized from microfilms at the NY State Library.

Sutherland 2006 Yearbook

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I scanned Sutherland Street 2006 yearbook from Pittsford Sutherland High School. But I put it on the Internet Archive because it is so large. It ended up being 52 megabytes. All but 5 pages are in color and color pages are on average 3 times larger than black & white (technically gray scale) pages. So it ended up being a very large file. You can view it on the Internet Archive or even download it.

This was a difficult yearbook to do. First, I had to correct the scans to make the pages the correct colors. That wasn’t too hard. I like to scan pages that have a margins all around. But the pages in this yearbook went all the way into the spine without a margin. So some pages have portions with words or names cut off on the spine side (right for even number pages and left for odd numbered pages).

Another problem is that pages 104 and 105 are headers for Underclasses but then the next 6 pages are faculty pictures. The underclass students start on page 112. All students have a picture except those absent on picture day.

The names under the seniors are in a hand-written font. OCR has a hard time with that style font. Also most senior photos have a dark background. Tell those studio photographers that some of the people get lost in their dark backgrounds. Much better to have light colored backgrounds. Only about half on the guys are wearing ties in their senior pictures. A plus is that a good share of the seniors have baby pictures included.

The seniors in this yearbook would be about 37 today. I wonder how many are already grandparents?