Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter, I am really enjoying all these images. Thank you for taking the time to scan & show them. Jay On 2/27/2016 6:55 PM, Peter Klein wrote: > More from the "Motherlode," the boxes of Kodachrome slides taken by my > Mom between 1949 and the 1980s. In the summer of 1949, my Mom and her > friend Sue took a train excursion from NYC to the west coast, going > through New Mexico, the Grand Canyon, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Mom > did not have a 35mm camera at the time--she took her father's old > folding camera with leather bellows. The people on the trip had various > cameras, including folders, a TLR and 35mm camera. They all exchanged > photos, so I have pictures from many people. I believe the 35mm > "Kodachrome Duplicate" slides were taken by a woman named Betty. I > believe that these 35mm photos were what inspired my mother to take up > 35mm herself when she returned to New York. She bought her Bolsey B2 > shortly thereafter. > > There are 10 new photos of California in 1949 in this set. Start here: > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at > N04/24691520023/in/dateposted-public/> > > > Be sure to see the last two, which show street scenes of San Francisco > and Chinatown. > > To pick and choose, here is the first page of my flickr feed: > <https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/> > > Enjoy! > --Peter