I think it was the summer between my brother Fran’s junior and senior year in high school when my parent’s had had enough. They asked if Peggi and I would take Fran for the summer. We said yes and they drove him out to Bloomington and dropped him off.
He got a part time maintenance job at Peddler’s, the woman’s clothing store that Steve Hoy’s sister ran. I was finishing concrete for a construction company and Peggi was working as a dental assistant. Dave Mahoney was working in the dorms and he lived down the street from us. We all spent a lot of time at the nearby quarries. We didn’t usually wear bathing suits but we did when my parents came back out to pick him up. My father took this shot. You can tell which one of us was more of a rebel rouser by the body language in this shot.
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That is a outstanding shot and brings back great memories. But I guarantee I never jumped fom the top, in fact I don’t think I ever jumped from above the second level. I think I remember actually swimming in more than one of those quarries, including the one with the big tilted rock that was in Breaking Away. There are a bunch of modern-day youtube videos of kid jumping from various spots, including one that is allegedly 95 ft. high.