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Bob Dylan album returned 48 years late
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) After nearly five decades of blowin’ in the wind, a double Bob Dylan album finally has a direction home: A man living in San Francisco has mailed the vinyl back to an Ohio library 48 years after it was supposed to be returned.
Howard Simon recently sent the album along with a letter to Heights Libraries apologizing for his tardiness, according to a news release from the library system outside Cleveland.
Simon checked out Dylan’s “Self Portrait” album in 1973 as an eighth-grader at a University Heights middle school. Simon says he found it between two other Dylan albums in his personal vinyl collection.
The record was a good 17,480 days overdue but he s quite sorry
Photo: Howard Simon
Published Jun 03, 2021
Back in 1973, an eighth-grader named Howard Simon borrowed a Bob Dylan record from the University Heights Public Library in Ohio. Now, 48 years later, Simon has finally returned the library s copy of Dylan s
Self Portrait, along with an apology and a donation to make up for the thousands of days worth of late fees.
Chalking up his mega-tardy return to his nomadic lifestyle over the years, Simon, now 62 years old, shipped the original vinyl, along with a letter, back to Ohio from San Francisco, where he now lives.