visiting europe 1950

Daddy was fascinated by the way the traffic was directed - policemen with white gloves who were almost dancing. He took movies of them. German traffic cop German children old couple Mannheim street American GIs with a German girl - the GIs had access to many things unavailable to the...

Heidleberg from castle I think we went to Heidelberg on the way to Mannheim to stay with our friends. My father was on the funicular and was taking movies - he was using up the film leader (when you loaded a film camera, the part of the film in the beginning would be exposed to light so that...

Part of the bridge across the Rhine Ruins along Rhine at a dock where we stopped for a few minutes(Koln-Dusseldorf) Daddy took a lot of single frame 16 mm shots of the castles on the Rhine - as far as I know those shots never had anything done with them. He also took black and white photos...

Ruins - Koln - 1950 Ruins in Koln falling roof and rubble Black market region in Koln As I remember it, we took a cruise on the Rhine - I think we started and ended at Cologne, although we may have been on the boat overnight. Just leaving dock at Koln My mom, my sister and I looking...

There are still frequent ferries across from Denmark, and the trip takes only 20 minutes. According to the website: All the Helsingborg Ferries have been recently modernised to high standards and are equipped with all the latest facilities such as restaurants and bars, spacious lounges, Cafes...

In 1950, my father's expenses were paid to International conferences in Paris and in Oxford. All he had to do was to find a way to fund us. So he worked at two jobs (commuting by train between Baltimore and Philadelphia) for the winter of 1949-1950 Passport photo My mother prepared us for the...