This might be one of my favorite photos. Thanks Dan. Miss y'all.

Portraits of the TMO as a Young Man

I came across a shopping bag full of pictures from my past while fishing for something else in an old a closet today and came across these. I'm sure there are others to come once I get a real chance to go through them all. The one with the Subhumans shirt is probably 1984 or 1985 judging by the stuff in my room and TMO's hair... haahaha. Not sure about the other, but it's a classic TMO grabs your camera and takes a pic of himself moment :-)

Thanks for keeping this sight maintained.

Steve Chadie

TCBTMO

Thanks Steve. Great photo of the man.

Sorry for the delay.

Dan sent me this in March. Sorry, I dont get a chance to sit down at the desktop very often. Look closely. Love this from the front of Dan's vintage Dodge Dart.

Great Pic Steve and Thanks

Took a ride in the hill country on some of me and TMO's favorite roads today and while I was out a friend texted me this picture of Tim from 1984 or 85. It was a weird coincidence that he sent it to me today. I had to smile seeing TMO's "Fuck You We're From Texas" shirt that he loved so much :-) Dig the beads, too, man.

Thanks Dan

Pic of T.Mo skating Ammo, Resting with CJ before skating Ammo, and a random shot of some road trip(?)

Wilkes, Dan. "Free Vespa" , 'The Only Way to Go' Vol. 2, No.4. Dallas, Texas, date? (Reprinted with permission of the author)

(Publisher's note: sorry it took me so long to get around to publishing this on the blog, kudos to Dan for the great story. Also I did not alter the text, it is how it originally appeared)

FREE VESPA

This is a profile on Tim Watson's vespa and the unusual story behind how he got it. Tim Watson a.k.a. TMO (pronounced Tea-Mo) decides that he wants a scooter, and being a friend of mine might have steered him towards a vespa. He purchases a fine red P200E from Randolph Garner, and a helmet, and he's off and running. The scooters great and TMO is happy, then some KOOK (idiot) side swipes him and totals the scoot. TMO's unscathed but his vespa is beyond normal repair, the engine casings were broken. They settled out of court and TMO buys another red vespa P200E from a friend named Eric Dettmar and once again TMO is on the loose. This scooter needed some minor repairs so we fixed it up and it got stolen. O.K. your thinking 3 strikes and your out, well TMO purchases P200E from yet another mutual friend, who originally bought the scooter from me. We refered to it as Frankenstien, because I built it from pieces I had found at junk yards and parts scooters I had bought over the years. TMO's had Frankenstien for awhile now and you would have expected some natural disaster to have befallen him by now, but actually just the opposite. Someone TMO knew asked him if he wanted* a vespa? And he said sure, what kind is it? A silver P200E, alright it's not red! So me and TMO (TMO and I) went to pick-up the scooter and it's in great shape, never been layed down, it just did'nt run. TMO decides to put the engine out of the Frankenstien in the silver body, and does so. He did it all by himself, and I was proud. -DAN *-(for FREE)