# Did you know Graham? Add to the archive

URL: https://www.grahamnicholson.com/contribute

Last updated: 2026-10-16T00:02:29.702Z

> Thirty years of the Cadillac Ranch Restaurant are missing from this archive, and a dozen photographs are unlabelled. If you were there, you know what we do not.

## Add to the archive

## Thirty years of the Ranch, and a dozen unlabelled faces

In August 2026 Graham sat down and went through this site, and a batch of photographs came with him. In September he sent four typed pages of his own. Between them they closed most of what this page used to ask for: Starstruck has its hearse, the Airstream has Lake Compounce and a date, Japan has the Kyocera plaque and the award behind it, the police years have the cruiser, the paisley Telecaster has its whole story, the boats have their names, the academy has a name — Pennsylvania Military College — and Bonnie is here, in crew whites in the wheelhouse.

What is still missing is the Cadillac Ranch Restaurant's own thirty years. One photograph of Mike Ditka, and nothing else. No opening night in 1997, no headline act, no full dance floor, no Old Thunder, no bar stool racing, nothing from the fifteen months dark or the reopening.

And a good number of photographs here are still unlabelled. We do not know which figure in the band frames is Graham, which of them are the Chevrons and which the Magnums, or which room is the Music Box. Every one of those is captioned as unconfirmed because nobody has told us otherwise.

There are also things that ought to have a picture and do not. His first guitar was a Magnavox and there is no photograph of it here. Nor of the bedroom in Litchfield where he taught himself to play, nor of the 22-foot Penn Yan that ran the Great Northern Route in 1973, nor the Lady of the Sea, nor the Trojan.

If you sang at Starstruck, danced at the Ranch, worked a shift, played a set, crewed a charter, rode in a patrol car with him, or have a shoebox in a cupboard, then you have something this record does not.

## What do you remember?