Old photographs

[Haole Girl]

Recently got some old photos, scanned, from my Dad.

Here are a few:


The mine where my Grandfather worked (he was in the plaid shirt)



My mother was 2nd from the right



My parent's wedding day

I hope you'll share some pics, too.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Those are wonderful pics, my dear Haole Girl!

I only have a few "old" pictures, alas...

I need to scan a bunch one of these days. Here's one from my wedding, 45 years ago. I hope that's old enough!

[Haole Girl]

2. Thanks :)

Love that pic... and I have a new appreciation for how well preserved your photo is!

[Tobin S.]

3. Great photos, Haole Girl

Here's the oldest one I have available. It's my graduating class from trucking school taken in 1996. I'm in the front row, second from the right in the blue and black flannel with the white t-shirt poking out of the top.

[Haole Girl]

4. Hi Tobin

You've come a long way!

Welcome to TX, btw. We might get severe weather tomorrow p.m., so hopefully you won't get caught in it. :hi:

[Tobin S.]

5. I got caught in some bad weather earlier today here in the pan handle

on my way to Amarillo. Heavy rain, high winds, and lightening. I was in Oklahoma ealier today and it was 82 degrees. As I approached that cold front bringing across the storm the temperature started falling. It was 53 degrees when I parked my truck at 5pm.

[begin_within]

6. Here's a bunch for ya...

I am the keeper of most of my family's old photos and home movies.
I recently scanned a bunch for my Mom's 92nd birthday party on Sept. 24th.
I scanned over 100 old slides and prints. Here are some of them...


My Mom in 1918, Fredericksburg, VA


My Mom in 1922, not sure where.


My Mom and her father (both active U.S. Marines) in 1943, San Diego


My Mom, U.S. Marine, 1944


My Dad, his mother, my Mom, my Dad's father, 1945


My Mom and Dad (both U.S. Marines) on their wedding day, May 3, 1945, San Diego


My Dad's mother, my Mom, I think Easter 1951, not sure where


My Dad took many pictures in Korea on his tour of duty there 1953-1954


My Mom's mother, my oldest sister, my Mom, Halloween 1954, San Diego


My oldest sister, her friend, Knott's Berry Farm, 1955


My other sister with my Mom, Sept. 1956, Santa Ana, CA


Disneyland, August 27, 1956. My oldest sister in blue dress.


Disneyland, August 27, 1956. My sister in teacup.


Disneyland, August 27, 1956


My other sister and my Mom, 1957, not sure where


Barrett family, neighbors in Fredericksburg, VA, 1957. They remind me of the Waltons. My sister in center, redhead to the right of her is Bobbie Barrett; we still keep in touch with her. She is active in Dem politics in VA. Sadly I think 4 or 5 of these kids have already passed away.


My only aunt and uncle (both now deceased), my sister, my Mom, and my cousin Todd, Estes Park, Colorado, 1958.


My Mom in her Buick, not sure of the year, I think 1958.


My Mom in about 1958 or so, I don't know where.


My Mom in about 1959, not sure but I think in Florida


My Mom with her cousin Tom Jim Mullaly, I think Spencerport, NY, 1959


My Mom in Pensacola, Florida, 1960


My Mom at our house in Orange, California, Easter Sunday 1964


Me at Disneyland, 1964


My Dad and Mom, at some fancy dinner event, I think about 1967

[Tobin S.]

7. Awesome, begin-within

I'm especially impressed when I see old color photos. I see so many black and whites from the 40s and 50s and while those are cool, to see color photos from back then is not as common.

[begin_within]

11. I have thousands of Kodachrome slides,

going back to when Kodachrome first came out, I think in 1939, and my grandfather started using it. Both him and my Dad were shutterbugs and I have a good collection of them, featuring Rocky Mountain National Park in the 1950s and quite a bit from the Marine Corps during the same time. The colors are still rich and bright and they look like they were taken yesterday - Kodak really knew what they were doing when they made Kodachrome. Slides from other brands have faded or have color shifts.

[Haole Girl]

12. Wow, begin_within!

Those are fantastic!! You've done a great job preserving them, too! Is it just me, or is there a resemblance between our mothers in a couple of those?! Weird. :crazy:

[begin_within]

17. I noticed that too!

In fact that's what inspired me to post my pictures. I did a double-take when I saw your Mom - she looks so much like my Mom. Maybe we are long-lost half siblings! However your parents were married in February 1957 and mine were married in May 1945 so there's quite a gap between the 2. My Mom is now 92. But yes, I was amazed at the resemblance. Both are beautiful.

[realisticphish]

19. You really should upload those to Shorpy

www.shorpy.com

They always take user-uploads, and there's a great community there. My favorite place for desktop images...

[begin_within]

20. Thanks,

although I don't think my photos have much historic value outside our family. There is a huge collection of slides of Rocky Mountain National Park which my grandfather took in the 1950s, and I am thinking of going there again someday and taking the same photos today, to compare "then and now." Might make an interesting book. And probably the documentation of the Korean Conflict that my Dad took would be a good illustration of military life in that era. Possibly another book. But I don't know how widespread the interest would really be. Almost all the slides are in excellent condition, having been stored in dark metal boxes all these years. The colors are still rich and bright and most are relatively low in dust and scratches. The 16 or so Disneyland photos I have uploaded to my Flickr account and also posted on a couple of Disney-related fan sites, with a lot of raves about them from Disneyland buffs. Many photos from the 1950s Disneyland are in black and white. The complete set of those, if you're interested, can be seen at http://davelandblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/bob-ws-family-goes-to-disneyland-august.html and http://davelandblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/bob-ws-family-goes-to-disneyland-august_27.html

[realisticphish]

21. oh, it's not all historic stuff

they love family photos, especially from 40s-70s, and they go nuts for Kodachrome

[begin_within]

22. Ok, I'll look for the best ones I have and upload them

Thanks

[BuelahWitch]

25. These are great!

Belated Happy Birthday to your Mom! :hi:

[begin_within]

28. Thanks. We had 2 parties for her

One for friends and neighbors and a smaller one for the family. They both were big successes and my Mom is ready to party on. She's still a party animal.

[proteus_lives]

8. Nice! I love old family photos.

:thumbsup:

[Haole Girl]

13. Thanks

I'm glad to have some of them. My step mother destroyed most of my father's old photos.

[csziggy]

9. The first picture - what kind of mining?

I know those draglines so well from the phosphate mines around Bartow where I grew up. The bucket your family is in is a little smaller than the one that worked three blocks from our house for about a year. That dragline was known as the Super Duper Scooper and was the largest in Florida at the time. They could drive a small dump truck into the bucket.

[Haole Girl]

14. Yep, you nailed it

He worked in the sulphur mines in Florida.

[csziggy]

34. Cool - my family was very involved in phosphate mining

So I grew up not just in the area, but getting to go along on guided tours of the facilities, with Dad being the guide.

[csziggy]

10. Some of my family

My grandmother with Mom and her two brothers, about 1928. This is my favorite photo of my grandmother.




My mother's father, about 1905. Quite a handsome young man!




The earliest known photo of Mom, with her Dad, 1921.




My other grandmother, with my uncle on the left and Dad on the right, about 1928.




My father's father, about 1919, in his Army uniform.




Mom & Dad on their wedding day, 1946. He was fresh off a sub, she had just shipped back from Hawaii with some patients (she was a Navy Nurse).




And here are the four of us girls - I'm the round faced, funny looking kid with the ugly glasses. Definitely not the beauty of the family. Our oldest sister got the beauty and the brains.

[Haole Girl]

15. Aww...you look so adorable in that pic!!

I love the top one, of your grandmother, too. Thank you for sharing those. :hug:

[driver8]

23. Love your photos...

My father was career Navy and my Mom is a retired RN (not a Navy nurse,however.).

Great photos -- thanks for sharing them.

[snagglepuss]

31. Fantastic photos. Thanks for posting. I love the one of your grandmom.

[Rosie1223]

16. My Dad and Grandparents

in the log house Dad grew up in. The house is still standing, one of my second cousins lives in it.

[driver8]

18. My father in the Navy in Iceland -- mid fifties...

My parents out on the town in Scotland...

[Aristus]

24. Good morning, HG. Here are some of my old family photos:

My Dad standing in front of the "Taj Mahal" building on Randolph AFB, ca. 1958.



A family portrait taken to commemorate our return from Germany. My brother, sister, my mother, I'm in the lederhosen (GAWD!), with my grandparents and my great-aunt in the second row. Montgomery, Alabama, 1971.



A pic taken the same day. My sister is no doubt responding to an instruction to "kiss your little brother, now..."



Halloween, 1972. San Antonio, Texas. With me as a sad Humpty-Dumpty. My mother made all the costumes by hand, and mine won a prize at school.

[Brother Buzz]

26. Grandpa (1), Charter Oak Ave Home Guards, St Helena, California, 1898

Jingoism and Yellow journalism worked well back in those days, too.

[SoCalDem]

27. a few oldies from my family

1954 in Panama ..I'm on the right


Naptime with Toby


1955 1st day of kindergarten


My grandfather(PapaJoe), as a baby with his twin sister 1899

[Skittles]

29. I'm the little blonde in the backseat

[Xithras]

30. A serious suggestion to everyone here.

Digitize, create duplicates for your albums, and store the originals somewhere safe and fireproof.

These photos are all great, but looking through them saddens me a bit. My mom had a housefire in the mid-90's that destroyed more than a century's worth of family photos. My baby pictures, photos of my parents generation growing up, family shots back through the decades, and the only extant photo of my great^x grandfather in his Civil War uniform (he served with a Maine infantry regiment). I grew up looking at those old photos, and they were gone in a flash. Today, I only have a couple photos of my own childhood, mostly school pictures, that had been given to other relatives. I have a single photo of my mom, taken when she was 16, that my uncle had in one of his albums.

I don't mean to be depressing, but this isn't a subject that gets discussed a lot. Our family albums are an incredibly special and irreplaceable look into our own histories, but we tend to take them for granted until they're gone.

Keep them safe, so your kids, grandkids, and great grandkids can experience them too.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

32. Here are a couple of really old ones:

This picture of my 3X great-grandfather was taken in Belfast some time before 1847 (the year he died). He was born in 1785 -- it's kind of cool to have a photo of someone who was born more than 200 years ago.



These are three of my great-great uncles in their Civil War uniforms. The one in the middle wrote a fascinating diary of his war experiences. Unfortunately he was shot by a sniper during the battle for Atlanta.

[applegrove]

33. Great shots!