u/Xtensive_Enterprises

I am trying to find a photo of my father from 60-70 years ago. I want to be able to put it in his hands before his days are done, to give him back a piece of his youth he barely can remember.

My father that's going on 83 and is in good spirits but rough shape. Recently told me that he once appeared in an indi motorcycle racing magazine called "Cycle Sport Magazine" sometime in the 60's. According to him he was racing at a dirt track in Vermont and there was a photographer from the magazine taking photos of the racers, and his was the one they picked.

He said it was a single photo of him on his favorite motorcycle. He was wearing a leather jacket (thanks for the distinct description Dad, lol) and that both tires of his bike were off the ground. Underneath it was a blurb, but all he can remember was "Verne Adams from ______ Vermont". He can't remember what part of the decade it was, let alone what the exact year. So I'll say between 1958 and 1970. He tells stories about this era being a time before motorcycles were specially built for off-road dirt racing, so that rules out the 1970+ dirtbike era.

I asked Grok and all it found was a few issues on an archive site, but the PDF files were incomplete and cut off. I also reached out to multiple people on Ebay selling issues asking them if they could check their copies and that I would buy the issue if they have it. All that responded told me they didn't find it. The internet archive also didn't yield much for results. I'm hoping maybe someone here is, or knows, a person that collected these magazines and may have the issue with this photo.

I am trying to find a photo of my father from 60-70 years ago. I want to be able to put it in his hands before his days are done, to give him back a piece of his youth he barely can remember.

My father that's going on 83 and is in good spirits but rough shape. Recently told me that he once appeared in an indi motorcycle racing magazine called "Cycle Sport Magazine" sometime in the 60's. According to him he was racing at a dirt track in Vermont and there was a photographer from the magazine taking photos of the racers, and his was the one they picked.

He said it was a single photo of him on his favorite motorcycle. He was wearing a leather jacket (thanks for the distinct description Dad, lol) and that both tires of his bike were off the ground. Underneath it was a blurb, but all he can remember was "Verne Adams from ______ Vermont". He can't remember what part of the decade it was, let alone what the exact year. So I'll say between 1958 and 1970. He tells stories about this era being a time before motorcycles were specially built for off-road dirt racing, so that rules out the 1970+ dirtbike era.

I asked Grok and all it found was a few issues on an archive site, but the PDF files were incomplete and cut off. I also reached out to multiple people on Ebay selling issues asking them if they could check their copies and that I would buy the issue if they have it. All that responded told me they didn't find it. The internet archive also didn't yield much for results. I'm hoping maybe someone here is, or knows, a person that collected these magazines and may have the issue with this photo.

My entire life I have been haunted by a game I played at a friends house in the 80's where either a safe room or a menu screen used the bass line from The Who's Baba O'riley.

I thought it was Goonie's 2, but after getting the game and beating it, nowhere was there the bass line. I wonder if it may have been an Atari game, which is likely because at the time the NES had just came out and there wasn't that many games that could have been available, which rules out obscure NES games. The only Atari games I can remember having access to at the time would have been Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Joust, ET, Adventure, Missile Command, Journey Escape. I know Journey Escape was based on a Journey album, but I wonder if it's possible.

I've talked to both ChatGPT and Grok on this and have spent many occasions surfing search engine results for forum mentions.