Then and Now

[JohnPD]

Jamestown - my dad's photo on the left- except for the statue of Pocahontas

Silver Cliff, Colorado - right summer 1948, left winter 1964 In 1948, I was 10 and my sister was 8 - main street and the house my dad grew up in.

More great photos, Rosalie. I admire how you kept a record of what, when, where and who of your dad's and your own photographs.

 

[greatgrandma]

More great photos, Rosalie. I admire how you kept a record of what, when, where and who of your dad's and your own photographs.

Sometime around 1963 my parents joined a camera club. This was a social club of about 8-10 couples. They didn't discuss f/stops. They met each month at someone's house for dessert, and each couple could show about 20 slides on the topic of the month-the topic set by the host. I could be something like "A Woman's Work Is Never Done." Or to illustrate a poem. And they discussed and complimented each other. It was fun. If someone took a trip, they were allowed to show slides of their trip instead of the topic. When we shows a slide to the camera club, we clipped the corner of the slide so we wouldn't repeat.

It was important to be able to find slides to illustrate the topics, so my mother and I numbered the slides consecutively, and wrote on the slide and in an account book the number and subject of the slide and rated it (E, VG, G, F, P). And we also had file cards with subjects - churches, rainbows, cows, etc. So that if we wanted a slide of a cow, we had the numbers on the card and we could look at those slides and pick one. My dad started taking slides in 1942, and by 1970 we were up over 12K slides. And I did the same with my slides starting in 1958. I got up to 8K in the book but I didn't do the file cards because I could mostly remember what I took pictures of. We only did slides- not prints

 

[JohnPD]

Sometime around 1963 my parents joined a camera club. This was a social club of about 8-10 couples. They didn't discuss f/stops. They met each month at someone's house for dessert, and each couple could show about 20 slides on the topic of the month-the topic set by the host. I could be something like "A Woman's Work Is Never Done." Or to illustrate a poem. And they discussed and complimented each other. It was fun. If someone took a trip, they were allowed to show slides of their trip instead of the topic. When we shows a slide to the camera club, we clipped the corner of the slide so we wouldn't repeat.

It was important to be able to find slides to illustrate the topics, so my mother and I numbered the slides consecutively, and wrote on the slide and in an account book the number and subject of the slide and rated it (E, VG, G, F, P). And we also had file cards with subjects - churches, rainbows, cows, etc. So that if we wanted a slide of a cow, we had the numbers on the card and we could look at those slides and pick one. My dad started taking slides in 1942, and by 1970 we were up over 12K slides. And I did the same with my slides starting in 1958. I got up to 8K in the book but I didn't do the file cards because I could mostly remember what I took pictures of. We only did slides- not prints

Sounds like a great filing system. And kudos to you for keeping it up!

 

[greatgrandma]

Sounds like a great filing system. And kudos to you for keeping it up!

I didn't do it anymore after I went to digital

Looking down between buildings -Now 2008 at the top and Then 1972


and Mystic's is a replica of the Brant Point Lighthouse which was built on Nantucket in 1966. It is open daily from 9-5.

Then (left 1972) and Now-2008


The first Brant Point Light was built in 1746. It was the second operative lighthouse in New England (the first being Boston Light dating from 1716). The wooden tower, built in 1900 is the lowest lighthouse in New England with its light only 26 feet above sea level. Like the original on Nantucket, the Mystic Brant Point Lighthouse replica contains a fourth-order Fresnel lens which has a 1,300 candlepower electric light and is visible for ten miles.

Inside the lighthouse is a handicapped accessible multimedia exhibition recounting the history and diversity of lighthouses from around the country. Outside the lighthouse at 4:30 pm Talemakers present "Keeping the Light," a new 30-minute program depicting stories of New England lighthouses and the keepers who maintained them.

 

[greatgrandma]

Charles W. Morgan at Mystic Seaport

Her first voyage was in 1841, and she served from then until December 1941 when she came to Mystic Seaport. The ship was declared a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966, In 1968 she went through a major restoration and preservation.

Now and Then - Charles W. Morgan Whaling Ship

Charles W. Morgan - Then 1972 and Now 2008

 

[JohnPD]

Sounds like a great filing system. And kudos to you for keeping it up!

I didn't do it anymore after I went to digital

With digital I reckon there’s no need for it anymore.

 

[greatgrandma]

With digital I reckon there’s no need for it anymore.

Well after my dad died in 1973, my mom went back to taking mostly print pictures. I got a job in 1986 where I needed both prints and slides and I was sending my film to Seattle Filmworks where I could get both from the same photo. I didn't get into digital for the first time until late 2000 and I was still taking film pictures for a year or three after that. But I wasn't getting slides.

 

[PhotoNut]

Very much enjoying this thread and the photos!

 

[greatgrandma]

Avignon - wall and Pope's palace

 

[greatgrandma]

Bridge at Avignon - top 1964 Bottom and middle - 2019

Sur le pont d'Avignon, L'on y danse, l'on y danse,


In English: Under the bridge of Avignon, One dances there, one dances there,

It was under the arches of the bridge on the Ile de la Barthelasse that dancing was once held. The song was popularised by Adolphe Adam who included it within his operetta "Le Sourd ou l’Auberge pleine" (1853). The above photo, which I took in 1964, still shows some of the little islands under the bridge.

According to legend, this bridge belongs to St. Benezet. As a young goatherd, Benezet heard a heavenly voice ordering him to go to Avignon. He crossed the Rhone by ferry, and in midstream announced that he was going to build a bridge. This was distressing news for the ferryman, who, bent on eliminating unfair competition, tried to toss Benezet overboard.

Undaunted, he marched in to the Avignon cathedral and again announced in a voice loud enough to be heard over the Mass, his intention of building a bridge. He was ejected.

He waited outside, repeating his story to the faithful, until the bishop, determined to prove that Benezet was an evil lying child, pointed to a huge rock, and asked the boy to pick it up. Benezet did so - lifting it as if it were a pebble.

Convinced of the truth of the miracle, the city built the bridge. Over its second pier is the little Romanesque and Gothic chapel dedicated to St. Benezet, who later became a priest.

Bridge from Promenade du Rocher de Doms in 1964

The bridge was built between 1171 and 1185 (first in wood and then in stone). It was finally put out of use by a catastrophic flood in 1668. It was not destroyed by either one of the World Wars.