Nancy Spungen

[uticaclub]

I have been researching Nancy Spungen's life since i was about 13 years old, i am 30 years old now. The photo i am about to post may disturb some people and i appoligize for that in advance. But i am looking for anyone who has a larger size photo of this, maybe with out the text, this is from someone's icon. I know another copy of this photo is out

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[rocklovegrrl]

I have only seen that picture in one book and it was in my high school's library. It was a thin hardback book in a sieres about crime I think. I scanned it on to a zip drive a long time ago but I don't have access to the zip right now. If I can get it soon I will give it to you. I am a Nancy-head as well and I have two different prints of the book Nancy's mum wrote. There was a hardback first edition of it in the school's library too and I wanted to have it so bad but I never got the chance to snag the bastard. Hah. I haven't seen that pic anywhere else though so hopefully I can get to it for you. Nice to hear you back by the way :) J

[rocklovegrrl]

I totally misspelled series...

[ramona315]

wow! you found it in a crime book in the library? do you remember the name of the book at all? i will take my ass straight to the library tomorrow if you remember, lol

[rocklovegrrl]

After much searching I did find the name it's a Time Life, True Crime Library Book called Death and Celebrity. I think her part in the book is called "Knives and pistols." It has several celebrity murder stories in it. I found three really cheap copies of it on ebay. I searched amazon.com too and found a used copy of D. Spungen's textbook for about $30. I haven't read the Nancy Milford book yet but I do have a book about Zelda & F. Scott that's all about the letters they wrote to each other. I have been lucky enough to catch Susan on a show with Martha they were decorating cakes. I was flippin around and found it, I yelled for Brian to come watch it even though he thinks I'm crazy. It was awesome. I've never known anyone who has met any of her family but I did get to visit her grave when I was coming back from RI on a Greyhound. From down town Philadelphia (the bus stop and Mutter Museum) to King David Cemetery was about a $70 dollar cab ride but damn it was worth it. I took pictures but I have only developed one of the cameras from

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[uticaclub]

i'm gonna have to check those books out, thanks for letting me know!;) I love Zelda and F.Scott Fitzgerald, there's a really good book about their marriage by Kendall Taylor called SOMETIMES MADNESS IS WISDOM (one of my fav zelda quotes!), there's another good book called HER VOICE IN PARADISE by Sally Cline....i just love reading about the fitzgeralds! i loved reading about yr visiting Nancy's grave, if you wanna hear about my trip to her grave let me know, i'd probably have to email it to you, and i'd like to show you photos too, we got stuck in a flood, it was really odd! if you want to hear about it just let me know! not many of my friends understand about nancy, but jodi does, brent does and my mom does too.... ♥

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[rocklovegrrl]

Yeah I would love to hear the story and see your pictures. It was raining when I went but not flooded. There was some water standing in the cemetary and I'm sure you know what it's like to walk around in wet converse. It took me forever to find it and it was getting late so I was getting really sad but I thought alright I'm only gonna go down one last row and if I don't see it I have to leave...and she was there. After I stood and took some pictures and all of that I walked across the street and used the phone book in a Sunoco station to call a cab. I waited there and the girl working the register let me sit and watch Oprah with her. I must have looked weird to her (Leather jacket, RAMONES shirt, wandering around a cemetary in the rain)she asked where I was from, I told her and what not then she asked what I was doing in the cemetary, I don't know why I said it but I just said I was visiting some family. I guess I didn't want to explain the whole story to her, she didn't seem like she wouldn't have the slightest clue who I was talking

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[ramona315]

we didnt even get to her grave, as soon as we got to the cemetary lighting started to strike and it was pouring and we were running around trying to find the grave, it was me, my boyfriend and 2 other friends. they all helped me look, but the rain got so bad! when we left that's when we got stuck in the flood, right after leaving the cemetary! we almost got washed off a bridge, it's hard to explain, im gonna draw a picture so i can show you! i have photos of us in the flood, but after we parked the car on hill. my boyfriend and friend, fred, actually went swimming in a road filled w/water w/some local people, i have funny photos of that! but it wasnt funny when we almost got washed over the bridge, the water was up to the windows of brent's buick and it stalled~his old car was famous for stalling and not restarting but luckily this time we did! there was a huge hill at the intersection we were at, and the water kept rushing down the road and hitting into the side of our car and pushing us towards the edge of the bridge, there was

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[rocklovegrrl]

That sounds so scary! Damn good thing the car started. My e-mail address should be in the info but if not then here: rocklovegrrl@cbgb.net. I love sharing stories with people. One of my other favorite was the time I was in NYC and I walked into CBGB's (the door was open and I just went in) during the day time and Hilly Krystal was on the phone at a desk and he got pissed at me and my friends because they were closed. I got a picture of a Joey Ramone 50TH birthday party poster on the wall but I had no flash so it didn't come out. I asked him if we could take some pics with us but he nenver came out so we just left but I have pics of CBGB's and the Chelsea if you want to see them, since you're sharing some pics with me. Glad you got that book. J

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[ramona315]

cool, thanks for yr email! i will be sending you and email and photos soon! i didnt get to look for my photos this weekend cause i got sick, AGAIN! another bad cold! i'll have to share some of my cbgb's photos with you, they're just ones of the outside that i changed from color to black and white for photo class at college, i liked em much better in b&w than the way i originally took them in color! i love hearing about all yr adventures!:) i will email you asap when i scan in those photos! and i hope we can continue to share more stories w/each other!:) ♥

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[rocklovegrrl]

It cool that you weren'table to look. My Mom keeps getting really bad summer colds. I'd love to see your CBGB photos. I'm glad you like hearing about my travels as much as I like hearing about yours. I'll keep an eye on my e-mail! J