Hey gang,
Did you notice the bus schedule that Jeff Clark/Peter Bradford was reading today? It was a list of NYC area locations. I know that Jeff/Peter told Vicky that he was going to NYC, but I really think that the upscale, suburban community of Tarrytown, NY was Jeff's true destination.
Jeff wanted to travel to this town just north of the Big Apple because he knew that the great house of Collinwood/Lyndhurst was located there. Jeff could start all over there with a new persona. Instead of being Jeff Clark/Peter Bradford, a guy who didn't know who he is/was, he's now Jeff Clark, aspiring and promising artist with a bright future.
Instead of having a fiancee named Vicky Winters (who doesn't even know her own family background), Jeff's fiancee is now the lovely Maggie Evans (a level-headed young woman, with a definite family background).
I think that Jeff/Peter may best be described as the "Zelig of Dark Shadows," a man who wants to transform himself from a whining, hair-grabbing schlump to a self-assured, neurotic-free artist. A brand new life, isn't that something that we all would like to have at some point in our lives?
Bob the Bartender, who immensely enjoyed Tony Curtis' performance as the wonderfully nonconformist Ralph DeMara in "the Great Impostor."