Saturday July 13, 1985
For those who don't get the distinction of Above and Below The Fold regarding a newspaper, when viewing a newspaper in a vendor box, the main fold hides what is on the lower half of the front page...
so in a vendor box, one only sees the upper half of page one.
Boop!
Click on the thumbnails for a better look at the scanned .jpg photos...
In the 1980s when the British science fiction series
Doctor Who
was at its height of fandom
(the show's "classic" era/s),
a tight circle of friends had been woven in which we each wore very detailed outfits befitting the character we respectively resembled.
My friend
Dave
would be done up as the
Peter Davison
incarnation, while
Dan
would win Best Doctor in costume competition as the
Tom Baker
incarnation, while I had a relatively close resemblence to the late
Roger Delgado,
almost invariably winning Best Villain for my spot-on outfit as the Delgado
incarnation of
The Master.
In July of 1985 most of us went to New Orleans
(NOT the best time of year to go to New Orleans, btw),
for a major convention.
Several of us came across a local reporter for the
New Orleans Times-Picayune
who was doing an article for the convention.
A substantial number of us posed on a stairway landing, and a several photos were taken.
The next day we found the issue and to our surprise, the photo was on the front page!
To Dan and my amusement, the newspaper had judiciously cropped the photo, omitting many of our circle of friends, mostly
she who wanted to Run The Group
rather than let it be a group of friends.
In fact, while a few others remained in the shot
(apart from Dan and myself),
the photo seemed to draw/force one's eye specifically to Dan and to me.
However, the accompanying article was Below The Fold, meaning that while essentially the photo and article looked like this with the paper open and spread out:
The Above The Fold photo, with the Below The Fold accompanying article.
Notice the crease in the middle
(at our waist):
that's the main fold of the front page.
Here the article was Below The Fold, while the photo was visible next to a rather disturbing and wholly unrelated headline:
Seems it might as well caption our photo with "Suspects Sought"...!
How the paper looked Above The Fold...