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I live in the high-desert southern California city of 29 Palms, the home of the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center. Jarheads are therefore a common sight here. The City of 29 Palms puts on a "Pioneer Days" celebration each year, which features a parade, a carnival and a rodeo, and some of these photos were taken there.

Catalog Numbers:
1. 678-15a 2. 678-18a
3. 678-13a 4. 677-10
Three Jarheads show their tattoos at the Pioneer Days carnival beer booth, 22 October 1994. I was waiting there for a friend and snapping pictures of people passing by, and these guys (together) wanted to pose. Who am I to refuse?

Catalog Number: 463-4
Pioneer Days parade, 16 October 1993. Catalog Number: 465-40
Pioneer Days parade, 16 October 1993. I wonder why this guy looks so glum? Catalog Number: 464-25
Pioneer Days parade, 16 October 1993.

Catalog Number: 474-35
Shane Stant, Wyoming cowboy, rodeo bull rider and member of the Corps' rodeo team, with a friend at the Pioneer Days Rodeo, 16 October 1993. Shane wasn't riding that day because he'd injured himself. A color shot or two of Shane riding (and getting knocked ass-over-teakettle) are forthcoming. Catalog Number: 680-36
Four buddies at the Pioneer Days carnival, 22 October 1994. Note: This shot is very grainy and high-contrast, shot with available light on Kodak TMax P3200, pushed two stops to ASA12,500. Catalog Number: 464-4
This is a Telephone shot. 29 Palms has a lot of pay phones, and for good reason: they get used (doh). Even with that large number of phones, it's sometimes difficult to find one free on a summer evening. It follows, then, that if there are Jarheads using telephones, there are photographers shooting Telephone Shots.

Catalog Number: 405-11
Another Telephone Shot, and in my opinion one of the best photographs I've made. This one in fact won Third Prize at a local art show. One wonders who he's talking to, and what s/he's saying. Shot at McDonald's, Adobe Road just north of Highway 62, 21 July 1993. Catalog Number: 392-34a
At the recycling center, Stater Bros. Market ("In the Heartland"), 6 May 1993. Catalog Number: 349-7
At the Union 76 station (it's now the parking lot of our local Denny's), southwest c orner of Adobe Road and Highway 62, 31 January 1993.

Catalog Number: 328-23a
Somewhere in 29 Palms, 15 December 1992. Catalog Number: 327a-33a
24 Decemnber 1992. Catalog Number: 309-26
5 August 1992.

Catalog Number: 397-33a
8 July 1993. Catalog Number: 376-17a
5 April 1993, I believe at the Himalaya Center, on Adobe Road just south of the Marine Base. The Himalaya Center is (among other things) the location of the Department of Motor Vehicles ... I won't speculate on where the name came from. Catalog Number: 410-33a
26 July 1993. Note: The focus in this shot is a tad soft; probably not a good idea to order a 16x20.

Catalog Number: 378-1a
These three are walking across the vacant lot (half of 29 Palms is vacant lots!) across the street from the Post Office, 9 April 1993. Note: This is not a full-frame shot--the negative is fogged on the right side and the shot must be cropped, so your print may not have this exact composition.

Catalog Number: 409-42a
23 July 1993.