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I agree. It also reminds me of the joined up writing in the dripping pen letter. I think it is fairly common that one person was assigned to do the “art direction” and design of these yearbooks. I would love to find out who did it for this particular year.

What do other people think about this?

What year was this from ?

This was from 1956 if I am correct. I’ll double check when I get home. If so, that would make people of this class around 29 in 1968, which makes sense timing wise.

Do you know if these are available online as I can’t find them on classmates.com. Is this from the yearbooks on eBay ??

Peek-a-boo was a very common phrase years ago. That is when people had a vocabulary. That’s when people didn’t say, perfect, 50 or 60 times a day. That is when they did not use the word, like, in every sentence they speak. So it doesn’t mean anything. It means nothing at all. There is no connection to the zodiac with that phrase. My grandfather was born in 1892 so I have a much better understanding of the English language then most anybody else alive.

Peek-a-boo was a very common phrase years ago. That is when people had a vocabulary. That’s when people didn’t say, perfect, 50 or 60 times a day. That is when they did not use the word, like, in every sentence they speak. So it doesn’t mean anything. It means nothing at all. There is no connection to the zodiac with that phrase. My grandfather was born in 1892 so I have a much better understanding of the English language then most anybody else alive.

As I said, it is probably insignificant, however, in a case like this I think it’s good to explore every possible avenue. In this case it doesn’t end there though: I think this handwriting resembles the ‘dripping pen’ letter and it is known that the Zodiac was into creating collage type artworks like this.

I am still of the opinion that it is very likely we can find something valuable in one of these yearbooks; handwriting that matches the Zodiac’s, a picture that matches the sketch etc.

Do you know if these are available online as I can’t find them on classmates.com. Is this from the yearbooks on eBay ??

That’s right, it’s from one of the yearbooks on eBay. Here’s a link:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VALLEJO-JUNI … SwE5lc0Gq1

I would def find out who did the art or art direction for the yearbook.

Z was very into this cut-and-paste / collage style of visual communication.

musicals, diagrams, costumes, gadgets, codes, symbols, etc…

I agree. It also reminds me of the joined up writing in the dripping pen letter. I think it is fairly common that one person was assigned to do the “art direction” and design of these yearbooks. I would love to find out who did it for this particular year.

What do other people think about this?

It does bear a strong resemblance. The fact there’s "peek a boo" on the same page makes it very interesting.

traveller1st,

Do you have more of "s-l1600 (1).jpg", in the upper left corner the writing looks interesting to me "ROOM I… and to take… spoiling the… Good Luck… Gazetta/Lorretta ??? 10 A Pres. ???".

Thanks!

No I don’t unfortunately. I noted that too and checked but that is how the original is cropped. As for the handwriting – it was one of the few styles on that page that caught my eye too but it’s a 2 stroke k. One of the many things that can rule it out.

Looks like usage of the word "peek-a-boo" had a bit of a surge in the 60’s and peaked in about 1968 in literature. It’s actually remained somewhat popular since then. I got that information from Google ngram viewer. As far as I understand it ngram viewer searches for a string (word/words/letters etc) from a big database of printed and digital text sources from the last several hundred years. So basically you type in a word and you get statics on it’s usage frequency over a date range. You can choose from databases of American, or British English and many more.