Dad’s Slides
I installed my slide scanner for the first time on the “new” laptop I moved to at work last summer, and scanned a few of Dad’s slides. I think these are all from 1950 to 1952. I didn’t bother to clean these up or fix anything, I just wanted to scan a few to show Mom. The first picture is my Dad’s family: (back row) Don, Don’s wife Ruth, Dick (my Dad), Lorna, Irv, (front row) Vern, Arley & Mary (Grandpa & Grandma), and Lowell.
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on January 31, 2008 at 11:01 am Tom wrote:
I love the color — it’s so specific to slides from that period. And without it you can’t fully appreciate those incredible neckties!
on January 31, 2008 at 11:28 am orcmid wrote:
Wow slide rules, drafting triangles, and pencils (probably HB) without erasers on the end. Takes me back. I still have some green quadrilled paper with the engineering blocks on them.
Oh yes, and those Studebakers. Is the car in the foreground the family Oldsmobile?
on January 31, 2008 at 12:36 pm Doug wrote:
I don’t know, Orcmid. But I love that picture — the glare on the lens makes it even better. That one has “Yellowstone, June 14 1952″ written on the slide frame, but the others have a 3-digit number and nothing else. Knowing my Dad, there was a thorough paper log somewhere that told what each of those numbers meant, but I don’t have that. The few in this batch (of about 200) that have dates are all between summer 1950 and summer 1952.
I had to post the picture of the slide rules when I saw it. I’m just old enough to be able to remember wanting a fancy slide rule, around 1970 I think. I had a cheap plastic one, and I remember going to the office supply store at Southcenter and lusting after the bigger and nicer ones with lots of different scales on them, wood construction with real glass sliders. Then a few years later it was calculators, then PCs a few years after that.
Yes, Tom, the colors are great. I especially like that shot of my grandfather with the deer — looks like a painting to me. Regarding the ties, I think it’s cute that Vern and Lowell, who are much younger than their brothers Irv/Dick/Don, have much longer ties. The short ties of the 40s were giving way to the longer ties of the 50s, apparently.
on January 31, 2008 at 5:50 pm Mom wrote:
Doug,
Gee, It has been a long time since I have seen any of those slides. The picnic one I don’t recall ever seeing.
The man on the deer picture with your Grandfather is your Dad’s Uncle Glenn–Arley’s youngest brother.
I am not sure who is with your Dad with the slide rules–but I think it might be his Uncle Walt Watters. (One of Grandma Mahugh’s younger brothers.)
Some of the people on the picnic one I recognize and others I can’t figure out who they are. Your Grandma Mahugh has her back to the photogragher. Mary Jean is on the right –the baby is probably Diane. The girl next to her is Bonita (Wilmer and Rita’s daughter). I think Lorna is just behind your Grandma, and the woman in the grey dress with dark hair is Rita (Wilmer’s wife and Bonita’s Mother). I think that is Arley between Bonita and Rita (although it could be Wilmer) and I think the man on the left is Glenn (but again it could be Wilmer) The young boys I don’t recognize, but suppose they are some of your uncles or Wilmer and Rita’s son.
The bear picture is definitely Yellowstone Park.
Do you have all of your Dad’s slides? I can’t remember if there are some around here or not.
Mom
on February 2, 2008 at 9:25 am Lynn wrote:
I like the woman in the blue dress at the picnic. And the potato chips in a box. Maybe if they still came in boxes there wouldn’t be so many crushed upon opening.