Or maybe Amos Jacobs.
Anyway, most people knew him much better as Danny Thomas.
But it was as Amos that he first made a splash as a freshman at Toledo's Woodward High School.
Here's how the 1928 yearbook summed things up:
The same yearbook reports that Amos delivered a fine performance on the stage of my own district high school at least once:
Just more proof that if you're not careful, you'll learn something new almost every day.
Or something 83 years old, anyway.
They did a fine job of Photoshopping that middle boy, considering they didn't have Photoshop to edit the yearbook with.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to say that a person could learn from this that spelling has gotten a lot more uniform through the years, but then I remembered Twitter and cellphone txt-speak.
Oh, and speaking of Marlo Thomas,
I found this on the way to looking up the That Girl theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=fdif5lw0IwI