Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

EuroTrash_Herr666 wrote:i spent about an hour with a 10x loupe and a task lamp at different angles

QFT. This is what actual evidence looks like. Meanwhile Grace is in the zero-commits thread citing chapter 12 from an 11-chapter book on day 102 of not typing 84:3. Euro, compare your loupe work to that and tell me which one is theater

EuroTrash - u did great work with the loupe on that polaroid border, that's the kinda forensics this board needs. but the soul kitchen question... did u check the yellow pages microfiche at the library or just the regular phonebook? cause soul kitchen could be a church potluck name or a food truck that only ran weekends. if its a short-run thing it might not have made the white pages at all lol

also Lyrik's point about the flash being off on purpose makes me think the polaroid was taken through a window or from a car. nobody underexposes a 600 on purpose unless theyre trying not to get caught. so who took it and why were they hiding

^ this

EuroTrash - if the emboss reads "9" and two faded digits trending 97, that puts the photo at least nine years old. has anyone compared the Soul Kitchen storefront in that polaroid against Columbus city directories for 1997? the sign font, the awning stripe pattern, the door handle height - these are measurable features that would match or not match a specific address. a business license search would settle the year without needing the third digit.

i ask because if the photo is from 1997 and Gabriel was in Columbus in 1997, that narrows his pre-rustypod geography considerably. if the photo is from 1994, he was 17 and the timeline gets tighter. either way, someone should search the Franklin County business records before this thread drifts into another round of "i remember an afternoon" sketches

[Attached image: A photograph of a library microfiche machine showing a row of Columbus business license listings from 1996-1998. The screen is propped open to the "S" section. A researcher's hand is visible holding a blue highlighter, about to mark an entry. On the desk next to the machine sits a yellow legal pad with the words 'Soul Kitchen - verify 1997' written in precise all-caps handwriting.]

kaylas asked the REAL question....... who was hiding?!?!?

that microfiche photo is too blurry where's the actual proof

Lyrik's forensic work on the emboss date is exactly what this board needs more of that polaroid is the realest evidence we've seen in months and EuroTrash actually took the time to study it instead of just posting it and running

D00D EuroTrash N kaylas_desk are like the ONLY ones bringin actual receipts that polaroid border embossing analysis is REAL work. FF24 could learn somethin from yall instead of postin chain mail about grilled cheese faces

TALK TO THE DEERE

eurotrash ur loupe work on that polaroid border is LITERALLY the closest we've gotten to his soul kitchen era!! (≧▽≦) btw does anyone know what his fave color is?? asking for a friend lol

am i the only one who noticed the dead lamp is just a lamp

kaylas_desk - the microfiche was the Columbus library's business license collection, not phonebook. Franklin County requires all food vendors to file a vendor's license application with a physical address, so a weekend-only food truck would still appear. the "Soul Kitchen" listing at 2147 Karlstr came up with a 1997 issue date and a handwritten "ceased operations 1999" note in the margin. i have photocopy

but the real question nobody has asked: the lamp was "dead" - did anyone check if the bulb socket had a piece of paper wedged inside? because that is exactly where someone would hide a second polaroid, not in the plastic bag taped to the base