Pictures from the very first Wash-In Chatham MA 1997!!

[jetcone]

Michale Gonzalez dug deep today and came up with these on his FB page! A record of the beginning!

My very first little Bendix! so like Wallace & Grommit - "A Grand Day Out"

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[jetcone]

#2

Manly washing! And notice how Robert is gripping my Pulsamatic! He eventually dragged it back to Minneapolis!

 

[jetcone]

#3

Studly beefcake
Don Hegarty, Jon Charles, Peter Mays, Robert Seger
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[jetcone]

#4

John will be happy to know that the Kenmore survived!

 

[jetcone]

#5

Don, John LeFever, Robert, Me
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Giddy in the sun
Stephen Whatshisname
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[jetcone]

#7

I always served good food!
( When he arrived, Robert was terrified we'd have 4 eyes and would bite!)
Stephen Whatshisname saw a good thing and knew better.
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[jetcone]

#8

Once Robert saw the Pulsamatic all else was for naught!

 

[jetcone]

Thank you Michael

Take a bow for recording this!
OOXO Jon

 

[combo52]

Frist Wash-In

Gee thanks for posting these pictures Jon I have the originals and have been threatening to blackmail Robert with a few of those for years LOL I guess I will have to think of other ways to fund my retirement now.

 

Yes those were good times out on the Cape, Michael was my first partner of almost 21 years, I talked to him yesterday and he is enjoying retirement. About 6 months ago I pulled out this huge box of pictures and Michael spent weeks going through them and digitizing them. I think that I have a few of you from this time period that could show up here, LOL.

 

[jetcone]

Cant' wait

i am trying to convert the TV show from VHS to DVD so I can post it here too.

Jon

 

[Unimatic1140]

Ugh those pictures lol, I don't think I've ever seen them.  I have posted the ones I have in another thread about our history, oh how I remember that wash in well.  My Boyfriend at the time Stephen and I figured if we got to Boston and Jon Charles was some sort of crazy freak we'd simply find a hotel, well we decided to stay after all!  He seemed like a safe freak

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[gansky1]

Great pictures - washing on the cape looks so familiar, and many more to come!

 

[in2itdood]

Wow!!!

How fun is that! History in the making for sure.

 

[philr]

Are you sure all these pictures are from 1986? The vehicles visible on them seem to be from the mid-nineties!

 

[jetcone]

Someone else may know

better the actual date, I think it must have been after 1992, because the house was resided then and its showing the new shingles. may have to change that date on the title!

 

[Unimatic1140]

1986?  I didn't even notice that. Baileys in the coffee this morning Jon dear?  It was July of 1997.

 

[jetcone]

1986 is when I met

John & Chuck and Tom & Michael

Someone's gonna have BAILEYS alright!!

Baileys in the Butt!

 

[nmassman44]

Not to move this into the Dirty Laundry category....but that pic of that Don guy ummm he is packing some heat there in those shorts.... Not to mention woof!