| Posted by Nismo |
7/14/2004 7:47 PM | remove |
Judging by the hair styles this photo is from around 88-92.
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| Posted by INeedAttention.com |
7/14/2004 7:48 PM | remove |
I think it's actually a little bit older than that, and I only say that because I'm pretty sure that his wife died in the early/mid 80s. Later this week I'm going to meet with my girlfriends grandmother, who saw Fred every day when he'd come over and ask for apples to feed his horse. I'll let you know what she has to say.
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| Posted by Nismo |
7/14/2004 8:17 PM | remove |
How did his wife die, and where did his daughter go to?
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| Posted by vmashun |
7/14/2004 8:36 PM | remove |
How inexplicitly tragic. Christ. :( RIP Fred.
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| Posted by INeedAttention.com |
7/14/2004 8:40 PM | remove |
Just an update, I was able to obtain a copy of his obituary, and I will be in touch with my girlfriends grandmother to find out more. I am going to move the discussion of his death and living situation in general to a thread.
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| Posted by 'Dukes |
7/16/2004 5:31 AM | remove |
Holy christ this is no old man! In this photo the guy is tops 50 years old! Add 20 years to that and he was seventy if he died last year. I thought this was some crazy old hermit in his eighties. Wow!
I thank God for what I have now because this could be me.
You know you said something about dying with money. I worry about money every day. But some folks never worry about it and die lonely anyway.
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| Posted by INeedAttention.com |
7/16/2004 6:32 AM | remove |
I may have to find out more about his military service now because my calculations would have made him over 80. Some of my specifics are inconsistent, and I apologize but most of what I know is word-of-mouth. The obituary will clear most of this up hopefully, and then I will modify what I had previously written where appropriate.
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| Posted by drinking_sand |
7/16/2004 10:09 PM | remove |
Are we entirely sure the the person shown sitting in the front of this portriat is female? Perhaps this could be the mystery son. It is hard to tell from the clothes. I do know that there was boys in my school in the 80's that had hairstyles not too far off from that "mullet" type look. I could be wrong though....?
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| Posted by ParanoidGirl |
7/16/2004 10:31 PM | remove |
We think you could be right there, isn't that an adams apple ???
The clothes would fit right in with the "Miami Vice" era (pinks and blues) and the hair style is definately like a "mullet"
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
7/16/2004 10:53 PM | remove |
Man that is freaky.
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| Posted by INeedAttention.com |
7/16/2004 11:49 PM | remove |
I'll take a look at the photo again up close, and look for more photos again the next time I visit. In all honesty, I really doubt that this is a boy pictured here. In the earlier photo located in the bathroom, of what appears to be the same child, one can observe that the infant had long hair and wore a sundress. I would presume that only a girl would be raised in such a manner from such a young age. As always, the investigation continues...
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| Posted by 'Dukes |
7/17/2004 5:20 AM | remove |
The woman on the left looks too young to be his wife; perhaps a younger sister with her two daughters ore daughter and androgenous other daughter / son?
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| Posted by Nismo |
7/17/2004 8:59 PM | remove |
Take hte picture and show it to the neighbours.
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
7/18/2004 2:30 AM | remove |
Good Call Nismo.
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| Posted by earthworm |
7/24/2004 12:05 AM | remove |
You know, that's exactly what I imagined him looking like.
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| Posted by agent-x |
8/17/2004 7:10 PM | remove |
are you sure this is actually Fred? any chance it could be perhaps a younger brother or some other relative
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
8/17/2004 7:43 PM | remove |
This could be... Steve ?
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| Posted by 'Dukes |
8/18/2004 12:26 AM | remove |
Maybe he's "Geoff"? Frigging Scots!
HEHE.
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| Posted by greywolf45 |
9/1/2004 4:59 AM | remove |
The girls in the photograph could be his granddaughters.
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| Posted by SnakeCorp |
9/22/2004 7:59 PM | remove |
Yep, I say Father, Daughter and 2 Granddaughters.
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| Posted by 'Dukes |
9/23/2004 1:23 AM | remove |
Yeah that dude is too young too be Fred.
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| Posted by metalwitch40 |
9/29/2004 10:47 PM | remove |
R.I.P. FRED!!
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| Posted by sisterblue |
10/1/2004 9:28 PM | remove |
I shed a tear.
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| Posted by Homestar Runner |
10/8/2004 2:23 PM | remove |
Damn... his photo reminds me so much of a teacher/coach in 8th Grade... suck, man.
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| Posted by godrulz |
11/10/2004 11:43 PM | remove |
Sorry to be coming in so late to this, but had to say this IS the best posting I have seen. Exquisite prose and the photos are very well done. My prayers to the family (those that are left) and those who knew Mr. Salomon. And if you ever find those who trespassed and trashed the house, perform grievous harm upon them in the form of karma for this violation.
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| Posted by EVFilms |
12/1/2004 4:01 AM | remove |
I think this pic is definatley dated from the early 90's. it really can't be earlier than that. This was also the tone that was widely used in Fuji stock, in the earlier 90's, giving it that greenish tint to the film. The picture of the picture is obviously digital; and has a warm tint to it, which means more than likely, this didn't effect the picture of Fred and family. What do you think? I'd say he could definatly be in his 60's (early of course) aging well?
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| Posted by INeedAttention.com |
12/1/2004 7:34 AM | remove |
Well this photo couldn't have dated past the mid-80s since his wife is pictured. Digital photography wasn't really prevalent then, nor was it in the early 90s.
Looking at this photo again though, clearly the girl sitting front and center is an older version of the girl in the portrait earlier in the gallery. Good eye. Still no idea who she could be, though.
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| Posted by 'Dukes |
12/2/2004 2:03 AM | remove |
Almost definitely not digital, as it's clearly a studio shot.
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| Posted by Murd0c |
12/7/2004 5:28 AM | remove |
Wow. Putting a face with all this madness really brings down to Earth. How sad.
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| Posted by Voidoid |
2/4/2005 10:55 AM | remove |
Wow. Looking through these photos while listening to Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the end of Time" has got me supremely bummed out. Nobody knows how many people we think are doing well are secretly living their lives like this.
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| Posted by ArmyMan |
2/13/2005 7:41 AM | remove |
Your galery is nice , but I think all of this , posting the life of an old man that probably didnt have a great life after is wife death , is a kind of disrescpect for im ... Yeah I know , he's dead right now , i just dont know all of this , but its also a great disrecpect for all is family .... that just MY opinion ...
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| Posted by MatC |
2/13/2005 9:13 PM | remove |
As has been posted in the thread associated with this location, there is no disrespect intended here. I think INA was trying to document the man's life and see that his story (sad as it may be) lived on through technology, something that Fred seemed to spend a lot of life involved with.
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| Posted by ArmyMan |
2/20/2005 8:50 PM | remove |
hummm , maby after my death , i will probably dont want every body to come in my house and post picture of it on the net ... but I just read the post that you are telling : every body forget Fred , but maby the UE comunity will remember her ... that thrue ...
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
3/26/2005 8:10 PM | remove |
i agree with you army man, i personally find this entry repulsive, i vouldnt want my life posted like this
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
3/27/2005 3:35 AM | remove |
Then don't leave it behind for all to see.
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| Posted by sleek |
3/29/2005 3:27 PM | remove |
Ordinary lives deserve remembrance. This man mourned his wife and son. Then there was no one else. now ther are lots of us who will think of them sometimes. Death is the inevatible end to life but no one should have to see their children die! Fred and family I salute you RIP. LordSleek
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| Posted by The Bean |
7/7/2005 11:52 AM | remove |
Excellent collection, thanks for sharing.
To me, this is the saddest photo of all of them.
RIP.
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| Posted by Jonsered |
1/3/2006 11:45 PM | remove |
What a terribly sad location. You've got to feel for this man who lost so much. Thanks for sharing this one.
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| Posted by Watcher |
1/11/2006 3:15 PM | remove |
Could this maybe be the son, his wife, and granddaughter. Everything INA has found makes the guy seem like he should be older than this.
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| Posted by Mutt |
1/11/2006 3:42 PM | remove |
The pictured gentleman looks to be in his late 50's. With the hair and clothing style on the rest screaming early 1980's Miami Vice, Fred would be in his late 70's which hewas hen he died at 79. The younger one in the pink an blue is a male, and is familial to the big haired female, same facial structures and measurements. The older female shares facial features with none right off the first look. Who they are I dont know. Perhaps son and niece? They both share features to Fred. Drooping outer eye fold, upper hard nose bridges and brow ridges, and general ovoid faces. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, I just came out of a course in facial reconstruction.
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| Posted by INeedAttention.com |
1/12/2006 3:16 AM | remove |
Mutt, you point out a lot that I agree with, but also consider that if they were not in Fred's nuclear family, they very well may have been in his extended family.
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| Posted by Caine In The Underdark |
4/25/2006 2:13 PM | remove |
This has been quite an extensive look into one mans life. You've got one hell of a gallery here, and it's a shame this place is to be destroyed.
It's also a pity that this man had to wither away like that, and slip into what appears to be total madness. May he find peace in death.
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| Posted by eidolon |
9/20/2007 11:03 PM | remove |
What an interesting gallery... It's rare that you get such a detailed story from the contents of a place. Thanks for posting it!
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| Posted by Esoterik |
9/2/2008 5:17 PM | remove |
overly dramatic pity bandwagon.
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| Posted by Samurai |
9/4/2008 5:43 AM | remove |
i'm glad it only took you a year to formulate that comment.
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| Posted by Mutt |
9/4/2008 2:16 PM | remove |
Give him a break, those were big words.
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| Posted by fokaz |
12/27/2008 10:51 AM | remove |
This is probably the best UE on this site. This should be showcased on the sites front page for peat sakes. Cause it has the most ties to human kind.
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| Posted by fokaz |
12/27/2008 10:53 AM | remove |
P.S. You could spell 'alone' right too. Did your girlfriend make big bank on that property by the way?
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| Posted by Andyrew |
8/30/2009 2:03 AM | remove |
I guess those were happier times :(
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| Posted by ThePhonedude |
12/30/2010 12:49 AM | remove |
Thanks for sharing! R.I.P. Fred.
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| Posted by courtney |
7/21/2013 7:26 PM | remove |
This is one of the only photo galleries that have haunted me since I first saw it so many years ago.
FWIW, this has got to be some other family/friend. According to SSDI, Gertrude A Salomon (last known residence Old Tappan) died March 10, 1992 at the age of 75, born in April 1916. She was older than Fred by ~8 years - he was born in January 1924.
There is no way the woman in the picture is over 60 and the perm on the girl on the right looks like what every other girl in my class had in 1987-1989ish.
Fred died 2 days before his 80th birthday.
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| Posted by ParanoidGirl |
7/24/2013 7:20 PM | remove |
I also wanted to chip in! This is one of my fave locations but the emotions and thoughts it stirs up are of immense sadness and anger. Why did the good citizens of the town look after this old chap? Why did he die alone and in squalor?
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