Welcome To My Adult Aged Booze Drinkers' and Pot Smokers' Halloween Party Web Site

To any other pro-photographer, at first glance, this photograph may appear to need to be cropped in some at the right side. But if you look at the photograph very closely -- and maybe left click on it to enlarge it -- you will see that the black sweatered young woman standing in the background with her arms folded has no lower body attached to her.

And the lower part of her body, from her folded arms on down, is visible in the lower right edge of the photo.

Do ya' see that little bit of her hand showing?

And how about that small section of her mighty-fine-young thigh showing between her short black skirt and tall black boots?

It's like the old magician's trick of sawing a girl in half, but done with a camera.

Pretty neat photography trick! Ain't it?

But it wasn't done digitally.

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Psychedelicized !

Photography by David Robert Crews

There has been no digital jiggery-pokery used in any of these photographs.

I used an older Canon film camera for this series of photos and did all of the special effects work with that camera. What I did for most of that wild and crazy, helluva' lotta' fun Halloween Night in Baltimore, Maryland's Fells Point Neighborhood business area was I shot most of the photos with the camera's shutter speed set on one second, not 1/60th of second as is normal for that older style camera; and I used a single strobe flash with the camera's aperture set at what was suggested by the flash's aperture guide. I sorta' just "let the whole thing roll" and had it figured right when I believed that this technique would capture the steady ebb and flow of the massive crowd by showing them flowing in the ambient light (street lights, etc.) while a bright blast of light from the flash froze parts of each scene being photographed. It worked about just like I had thought it could.

And I am fukin-aye-right, mighty-well pleased with the results.

In fact.

I declare this to be the absolute best set of Halloween photographs ever produced -- they definitely are for the traditional adult oriented Fells Point Halloween happenings.

If you know of any better Halloween photos anywhere, please let me know about them, because I would most certainly enjoy seeing them too.

Hey Buddy! You Look A Bit Too Comfortable In That Female's Outfit For My Comfort!!

Photography by David Robert Crews

The photographs on this site were taken in Baltimore, Maryland's hip and happening Fells Point Neighborhood business area on Halloween Saturday Night ten years ago in 1998. Then they were all custom, hand printed into 8x10s by me in the Dundalk Community College photo lab.

Little Red Ridng Hood and Teletubbie Girl

Photography by David Robert Crews

I have to tell you. When Little Red Riding Hood and Teletubbie Girl came up to me and asked if I'd take their picture, as a lot of people did that night, I was wishing that I was 20 years younger. Alright, alright -- make that 25 years younger. Those are two healthy, attractive young college women in about the sweetest-sexiest little outfits I ever did see.

ARRROOOOHHHHH!!!

I felt like a Wolfman!!

And how'd I know they were college gals? It was easy to figure out; not just by their good, healthy looks and obvious intelligent and gregarious personalities, but because it being Halloween on a Saturday Night all of the Baltimore area colleges/universities had hired buses to truck their students down to Fells Point. I was informed by a one of the many mellow Baltimore City cops on the scene that this was done because it allowed the students to work on their costumes all day Saturday, then get as drunk as they wanted to on Saturday Night while not having to drive home drunk, and then they had all day Sunday to get over their hangovers. The police officer and I both thought that it was a real good idea for the schools to have done that. Don't you?

With Or Without A Costume On It Is Always A Good Time In Fells Point On Halloween Night

Photography by David Robert Crews

Black Widow Spider Gal -- See The Red Hourglass Marking On Her Belly?

Photography by David Robert Crews

That red hourglass marking shows that she's a Black Widow Spider. She didn't try to bite me, but I'd have liked to 'uv nibbled on her sweet-self for awhile.

Fleet Of Flying Saucers In A "V" Formation Swooping In Low At Treetop Level

Photography by David Robert Crews

It does look like it is a fleet of flying saucers, doesn't it? And what would they be doing to shake up the crowd so much? Did I manage to squeeze off my camera's shutter at the exact split second when creatures from outer space were doing some kind of a "soul swap" or what-have-you with every single person in the crowd? Are the spacemen injecting alien souls into humans? It would be a good time to do it when the people in the crowd were mostly drunk, maybe a little stoned, and won't remember that Halloween Saturday Night so perfectly well anyways.

What do ya' think? What's really happening here?

Faux Panhandling Potheads

Photography by David Robert Crews

The Monk Got Drunk and Mr. Clean Don't Know Just Where To Begin Cleaning Up

Photography by David Robert Crews

This sure-as-hell hasta' depict eggzactely what "the monk's" view of the world was at that moment in time. His head just hadda' been spinnin' sumthin' tu'rrible, and the photo's swirling upper half must look like what "the monk" was seeing when he managed to open up his eyes.

Wild White Crew In Blackface

Photography by David Robert Crews

How I happened to grab this wild shot of a line of several white guys in blackface dancing in line towards me and on by a black guy in whiteface was pure luck.

WARNING!! This Photograph May Be Offensive To Some Catholics and Others

WARNING!!!



This photograph may be offensive



to some Catholics and others.






Father Hugh G. Rection and Two Happy Nuns

Photography by David Robert Crews

All About The Playlist Of Songs, Sound Effects and Comedy Clips Playing As You View This Web Site

The Playlist of songs, sound effects and comedy clips, which you may hearing as you peruse my outstanding photographs on here, is available -- for your use of -- at the bottom of this web page.

You can go to that Playlist down there below and left click on any song, sound effect or comedy clip entry to hear it at your command, leisure and pleasure. You can play an entry that you or someone at a Halloween party wants to hear or you can hit on one that best fits any certain person's costume who is there. Because amongst the Playlist offerings, you will find some mighty useful, for mighty good laughs, Superman, Batman and Spiderman stuff, hillbilly costume songs, a song about Elvis (Riding With The King by John Hiatt), all kinds of monster costume songs and sounds, Star Wars stuff, songs and sounds for any kinda' critters from outer space, there are all kinds of happy-Hippie numbers and comedy bits, so on and so forth.

Every entry on this Playlist has been included because it is either a traditional Halloween song, is a song that has a great Halloween feel to it for Rock n' Rollin' Blues and Rhythm n' Blues types like me, maybe it goes with some Halloween costume we all often see on Halloween, or it is a boozin' and/or reefer rollin' number or just one fukin'-aye-right-on-bad-ass party tune --lotta' good dance tunes for sure.

The one great thing about the TV theme songs on the Playlist is that here we have the opportunity to play them through today's superb stereo speakers; we usually heard or hear them coming from moderate fidelity TV speakers, but playing them through our newer, much higher fidelity stereo speakers provides us with the true quality of most of the theme songs, with their top-notch instrumentals and vocals.

All through the Playlist you can dig on dynamite drum and guitar licks, mighty potent horn arrangements with some outstanding Saxophone solos, solid vocal tracks and serious production standards of even the old TV theme songs and the oldest of Top 40 Radio Halloween standards.

I set the Playlist up with as much of a smooth, well paced partying flow as is possible. And it kick's ass all the way through.

I figure that by the time the gettin' high and drunk tunes appear on anyone's auditory horizon they will have had plenty of time to see the fantastic photos on here and to figure out what is coming up in the music Playlist. That way, anyone who finds the photos on this site or the reefer humor or booze humor not to their liking will be long gone before the first Marijuana humor song comes on.

The rest of you are in for some real good times if you make full use of the Playlist's oft-surprising, sometimes pleasantly shocking, mostly a whole-lotta' fun songs, sound effects and comedy clips along with the often Psychedelic styled, beautiful and funny visuals of the photographs on here.

My Playlist is offered here for you to use as your one source of Halloween songs, sound effects and comedy clips or to add parts of it to yours and your party-mates' own personal mix of songs, sound effects and comedy clips that help make a Halloween party go great.

So look and listen, jump and jive, dance and prance, laugh and joke, maybe sip a drink and/or toke on-a bowl, and ROCK N' ROLL!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Or as they say in The Land of The Mighty-Mighty Webdings HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Here's Me In My Wilder Days

This was at Myrtle Beach State Park Campground, in 1976.

It was my campfire, and I really knew how to build one up
nice and solid back then. I'd git-er going good
on one lit match too.

I knew darn well that the flames would not bother me
if I quickly squatted, smiled for the camera,
yelled "shrink hemorrhoids the natural way "
and stood right back up real fast and smooth.

I had just lit the fire,
and that was my first beer of the day,
so I was just gettin quite lit up me-self.
I was still completely sober at that moment,
an ah knew eggzzactely what I were doin.
There was no danger of me being burnt,
I assure you.

But I sho-nuff did make it look like
I wuz cookin mah mountain oysters!

It was true magic
to the dozen or so other campers
who were watching.

Then we all sat around that fire for hours
and had a mighty fine evening
out in the woods together.

P.S.

I think that the campers from Canada
read a different meaning into my
"Maryland is for crabs"
t-shirt.

The intended message is that steamed,
Old Bay seasoned Maryland Blue Crabs
are delicious.

Seems like they had never heard of eating crabs before.

OH!

Shit!

Now I get it!

They thought it was them kinda crabs I caught
in an Okinawan brothel that time!!

Good thing I didn't realize this back then.

That's embarrassing.

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1968 Era Baltimore and
Northern Maine adventures of
a Rock n’ Roll, Blues loving, Mod kid.

If ya wanna see just how hip and happening Baltimore was back in the 1960s, then David Robert Crews has some interesting and entertaining stories for you about
Baltimore Mods, Beatniks, Ted’s Music Shop,
Sherman’s Book Store, General Music Record Store,
Baltimore’s first head shop The Psychedelic Propeller,
and a teen nightclub called The Bluesette
where Mod kids from in and around little ol’ B-town
enjoyed great, Rock n’ Rolling times together.

On June 5, 1968, David graduated from high school
in the suburbs of Baltimore;
in November of ’68, he moved to Northern Maine,
where he became a bear hunting guide
and wild and woolly country girl’s delight.

David fit right in with the native Mainers way up north,
even though they were about a solid year behind Baltimore in all things hip and happening.

And Baltimore’s teens and young adult Hipsters were
actually about a year and a half behind the
young people of the West Coast and New York City areas.

In Maine, Dave rode snowmobiles like crazy, had stupendous times with the teens in and around Patten, Maine, learned to drive Maine’s rough and tumble backroads and woodsroads ‘like a ringin a bell’, and he tracked wounded bears at night – sometimes all by his lonesome and never with a firearm.

Really cool old photos and well written stories about it all are available for your viewing and reading pleasure and excitement at:
http://katahdinlodge7photos.blogspot.com/

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My Short Stories About Adventures In Maine

Here is a guide to my stories about being a Maine bear hunting guide and country girl's delight up in Patten, Maine at Katahdin Lodge and Camps. I will provide links to each of these stories, where they are published on a Maine web site. Some stories are on several web sites.

Just keep in mind that I need some professional editing help and I also need to do some other 'sprucing up' of them in order for me to be completely satisfied with these written works--but the stories sure as hell are interesting, entertaining, a tad bit educational, and (according to thousands of readers so far) fun to read anyways.

I hope that you enjoy reading one or all of them.

The House Fire is a nice, but scary one (it scared me when it happened, that's for certain). This one is for good gentle and not so gentle folks of all ages.

The Day I Fell In Love With Patten Maine ain't nuthin' like you will expect, and it is a mind blower. It's a real, small town, soap opera scene, and a teenagers' thrill a minute experience.

An Italian Nice Guy is a good bear hunting story that is really a chipmunk story. It is actually good for kids to read. No bears are even shot at in it. It is fictionalized a bit, but mostly true. I expanded on what I knew about Tony and his family, but they had to be real nice people.

Here also are copies of emails exchanged between myself and the Italian Nice Guy's family confirming that I wrote his story well.

The Rocket Scientist is a crazy trip about a genuine Washington, DC Rocket Scientist. It is about one of any hunting guide's worst fears and dangers.

Jungle Dirt is something which stands on its own. It was my first attempt at fictionalizing a true story. It is about a Vietnam Veteran's experience when he went bear hunting in Maine just three days after coming home from fighting hard for a full year 'Nam. It is a good story for all of us Vietnam Era Veterans and others who care about us, and how we were treated in America during and after the Vietnam War. Just about the only fictional parts have to do with the me making some descriptive guesses about the Nam Vet's mother and a small amount was expanded on to the guy's stepfather's description. Boss Hog on the Dukes of Hazard did look exactly like that friggin' jackass of a stepfather though.

Easiest Way To Carry A Dead Bear is a nutty piece, but it does give a damn good hunting tip. It gets right loony, ain't no doubt about it.

Bananastien is about young adults testing the limits in 1969 Patten, ME. Part of it gets real wild on the back roads.

Driving Northern Mainer Style is a basic "how to guide" on driving on those wild and woolly, climbin' and droppin', twisty and hard turning country and backwoods roads up there in Maine. And also how not to drive them roads. Within that written piece, there is also a story about how I nearly 'bought the farm' early one morning up on the Washburn Road, where it goes into the small city of Caribou, Maine. Ya' better tighten y'ur seat belts for this one.

My VW Bug Trip To Maine has a hilarious bear hunting scene in it, it's a hoot, and the rest of it is a wild, funny, and very, very happy story. It was about a trip of mine to Maine while I was on leave from the Army just after I had graduated US Army Photographic Laboratory Technician School, and before I was assigned to duty over on Okinawa. This story goes from Patten, ME down to Dundalk, MD and through a bunch of quite memorable experiences.

Then They Own You takes place in 1979, when I tried to work for my Aunt Martha and Uncle Finley Clarke in Maine one more time. They simply had no appreciation for anything that I did for them. They wanted me to work my entire life for them at Katahdin Lodge without receiving a salary and while they seriously mistreated me. I did have some great times at Katahdin Lodge, but it wasn't worth the emotional abuse that they heaped upon me. Neither my Uncle Fin nor Aunt Marty ever said one good word about the work that I did for them. To this day, they refuse to acknowledge what I did up there, when a Baltimore suburbanite kid went way up into the Great North Woods of Maine and became a bear hunting guide and country girl's delight who never made one serious mistake while living and working there.

Guide To My Other Blogs

My other blogs (actually they are mostly a poor man's free web sites) are:

Northern Maine Adventures Photo Album---1968 Era Baltimore and Northern Maine adventures of a Rock n’ Roll, Blues loving, Mod kid. If ya wanna see just how hip and happening Baltimore was back in the 1960s, then this blog has some interesting and entertaining stories for you about Baltimore Mods, Beatniks, Ted’s Music Shop, Sherman’s Book Store, General Music Record Store, Baltimore’s first head shop The Psychedelic Propeller, and a teen nightclub called The Bluesette where Mod kids from in and around little ol’ B-town enjoyed great, Rock n’ Rolling times together.

On June 5, 1968, I graduated from high school in the suburbs of Baltimore; in November of ’68, I moved to Northern Maine, where I became a bear hunting guide
and wild and woolly country girl’s delight. I fit right in with the native Mainers way up north, even though they were about a solid year behind Baltimore in all things hip and happening. And Baltimore’s teens and young adult Hipsters were actually about a year and a half behind the young people of the West Coast and New York City areas.

In Maine, I rode snowmobiles like crazy, had stupendous times with the teens in and around Patten, Maine, learned to drive Maine’s rough and tumble backroads and woodsroads ‘like a ringin a bell’, and I tracked wounded bears at night – sometimes all by my lonesome and never with a firearm. Really cool old photos and well written stories about it all are available for your viewing and reading pleasure and excitement on this web site.

Northern Maine Adventures ---this has a lot about some not-so-nice aspects of my times in Maine. It features parts of my whole Maine story that are not in my short stories, which are published on several web sites in Maine. It is a well composed, entertaining look into the life of a kid from suburban Dundalk, Maryland who moved up to Patten, Maine and fit right in with the country folks living there, and became a bear hunting guide and country girl's delight. You can have a real good, interesting time on the Internet while viewing the photos and reading the text and stories on this site. It does, though, deal with emotional abuse that I suffered because of the way that my aunt and uncle in Maine treated me. But the very fact that I have written it all out in such an informative yet entertaining way and have had various parts of the whole story published all over the World Wide Web and read by thousands of people is a great triumph for me.

Fells Point Fun Festival 2000---has great photos of Baltimore Maryland's Fells Point Fun Festival in the year 2000.

Blue Skies Over Dundalk Maryland---is about my hometown. A thoroughly misunderstood place, which is the brunt of massive disrespectful misinformation and self-righteous humor by the Maryland media and a million other ignoramuses. It has wonderful photos and truthful text about the real Dundalk.

David R. Crews' Ramblings and Photos---this site features greet photos and text about areas in Eastern Baltimore City and County that I love. Dundalk is in Eastern Baltimore County, but it needs and deserves to have its own site built and maintained by me.

30th Artillery Brigade Okinawa 1970-71 ---is about my time as a US Army photographer assigned to peaceful, but wild and crazy, Okinawa, during the Vietnam War. It starts off with a great set of photographs from back then, most were taken the day the Army donated baseball backstops to Okinawan Schools. Then it deals with a very crappy situation that I was forced to endure, which still affects me to this day. I was illegally assigned as brigade photographer for the 30th Arty Bgde, and the photo lab I worked in was totally, completely, militarily illegal and immoral. This was devastating to me. I have been struggling to prove all this for over three decades, and now I am in a running battle to prove the full facts of my story. This is about fighting for what is right. The fighting is getting way more intense and about to get very interesting. I am battling to have the record set straight.

An American GI On Okinawa 1970-71---this also deals with the crappy situation I suffered through on Okinawa, but it goes into the wild and crazy kinds of times that many of us lower ranking GIs shared over there back then. It also tells of the great friendships we formed amongst ourselves, our music listening pleasures, the way we lived in our barracks, the bar and red light districts, plus true stories about our asinine leaders and our good leaders too. And how we got along with the residents of a foreign land. Fortunately, I have a natural need to write about the good times as well as the bad, this will help you to understand all that my time on Okinawa means to me.

Duckin' and Divin' Techniques of a Recycle Ranger---a blog about gathering up previously owned, currently unwanted items that are still good. I tell you about some of my best and worst finds, how to be safe and sanitary while dumpster diving, and how make the best uses of what you yourself may find discarded in a dumpster, at the curbside or in the alley on trash collection day, or anywhere it may have been discarded. America is very wasteful; take advantage of that sad fact. And enjoy reading the fun stories about Duckin' and Divin' that are on my blog.

The Way That I See It Is...---a blog about anything and everything I want to blog about.

David Robert Crews, His Writings and Photography---this is my very first blog. It is on Maine Outdoors Today web pages. That is the biggest and best set of outdoors activities web sites in the Great State of Maine. It has a variety of my work on it. But working on this blog means using wordpress software, and I cannot seem to learn how to use that program well. This blog has had the most traffic to it of all my blogs.