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Happenings 20 Years Time Ago: The Night The Yardbirds Played My High School Prom

Tim VonderBrink, One Shot, Winter 1987

IT WAS PROM NIGHT, 1968. Boutonnieres, corsages, tuxedos, the works. Guys shaving their peach-fuzzed faces, adjusting their cummerbunds and climbing into their dads’ cars to pick up their girl friends, or maybe someone they’d only talked to on the phone.

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