Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter - This really is nostalgia time. I've got a a few thousand Kodachromes from that era myself, also shot on a Bosley B2 by two of my uncles. Your photos look so much like mine that it makes me think you Mom and my uncles must have read the same Kodak perfect-moments instruction manual. Regards, Dick off-list comments to r.s.taylor at comcast dot net please. On Nov 4, 2008, at 1:20 AM, Peter Klein wrote: > These are wonderful, Steve, thanks for posting them. I'm pretty > sure saw these photos in a book in our local library a few months > ago. So if anybody wants to have them (plus many more) in print, a > bit of Googling would probably produce the title. > > Since we're in a "memory lane" mood, here are some of my Mom's > pictures from 1951 or so, 12 years after the pictures Steve posted. > Still the original Kodachrome, ASA 10(!), on a Bolsey B2 RF. I came > along two years later. > > On the ferry to the Statue of Liberty. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/Misc1950s/StatLib04GroupBoat.jpg.html > > My mom and her friend Sue with the New York City skyline behind: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/Misc1950s/StatLib04EmNYView.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/Misc1950s/StatLib08SueHersh.jpg.html > > What people wore: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/Misc1950s/03MiltGirls51.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/Misc1950s/StatLib11GroupApt.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/Misc1950s/StatLib13BettyGarden.jpg.html > > My Dad in/with his 1947 Chrysler: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/EmMiltHoneymoon/01MiltAtWheel.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/EmMiltHoneymoon/7MiltCarBoathouse.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/EmMiltHoneymoon/20MiltCar.jpg.html > > Main Street of a small town in Connecticut (?) > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/EmMiltHoneymoon/04EmWillimantic.jpg.html > > Cape Cod or Martha's Vineyard > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/EmMiltHoneymoon/05ManPipe.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/EmMiltHoneymoon/13EmDock.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/EmMiltHoneymoon/17MiltCove.jpg.html > > Gas prices we'll never see again! > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/EmMiltHoneymoon/12FillErUp.jpg.html > > My Mom and her sisters dressing up for a family wedding, the day > after my parents got married. My grandfather designed patterns and > dresses, and often adapted cast-offs from work for his daughters: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/EmMiltWedding/crop0028.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/EmMiltWedding/crop0029.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/EmMiltWedding/crop0030.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/EmMiltWedding/crop0031.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/EmMiltWedding/crop0033.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/family/EmMiltWedding/crop0034.jpg.html > > At 06:19 PM 11/3/2008 -0800, Steve posted: >> http://www.openmyeyeslord.net/ALookBackInHistory.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information