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My father lost his battle with cancer last week so I've been going through old photo albums, has been rather cathartic Here he is chilling with one of his dobermans, I think there's a speargun in the background...  He worked for CP Rail for quite a long time, these are from 1991 somewhere up in the Sunshine Coast area of BC (I think around Schelt) an avalanche blocked some tracks      He had an old SLR, hoping to find some more pics as we go through all his things.
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neckbeard posted:
Diggin' this shot especially  Sorry to hear about your dad, he certainly had some cool pictures. Also, you should definitely shoot that old SLR yourself.
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Apr 5, 2015 20:38
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Really like the texture on this one.
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ExecuDork posted:Sorry to hear about your dad, he certainly had some cool pictures. Also, you should definitely shoot that old SLR yourself. Seconding this. I inherited my dad's old OM-10 a while back and shooting my kids with the same camera my dad used to shoot us has a nice warm circle of life feel to it.
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Why did it take me so long to click this thread?  This is awesome!
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I think it would shatter my dad's delicate ego if he found out I was looking at photos of other cooler dads on the internet.
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Soopafly posted:I'm not kidding when I say I'd love to see every last one of those you're willing to put online. Thanks for sharing, this stuff is fascinating.
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Having largely exhausted the people/crime/exciting stuff scans I currently have, and being on a semi-hiatus in scanning new ones (warm weather means I'm Doin Thangs), I guess I'll toss up some landscape and streetscape type stuff.      Ladies love a dude with a camera, a case of beer, and a copy of Dark Side of the Moon in his car. 
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May 8, 2015 12:10
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Not mine, but this thread needs some life. Welcome to 1970's Philadelphia. Street Gang Members, August 1973 by The U.S. National Archives, on Flickr
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Soopafly posted:Not mine, but this thread needs some life. Welcome to 1970's Philadelphia. yaaaaaaaaay it's back  That painter picture at the very end is phenomenal
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Hopefully the new boxes have some interesting stuff. The last box, 1992, had...churches. Fuckton of churches. "Hey. Pops." I say. "What's with all the churches?" "Some minister was collecting photos of every church in the county for a book or something, I dunno what. He paid $10 per picture, so yeah why the hell not." I never want to see another church again.  EDIT: Holy gently caress why did I make that so big Rev. Bleech_ fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Aug 13, 2015 |
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Aug 12, 2015 22:05
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loving owns.
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That's like $4000 worth of church pictures.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Hopefully the new boxes have some interesting stuff. The last box, 1992, had...churches. Fuckton of churches. "Hey. Pops." I say. "What's with all the churches?" "Some minister was collecting photos of every church in the county for a book or something, I dunno what. He paid $10 per picture, so yeah why the hell not." Make this into one of those composite images where the big image is made of thousands of little images. Obviously the big image should be either a naked woman's silhouette or Bob Marley, if my time spent walking around inside the mall has taught me anything.
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It reminds me of some of the photo collections the Library of Congress has online. They sent photographers all over the country to record the state of things and there's a lot of "documentary" shots like that.
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ExecuDork posted:Make this into one of those composite images where the big image is made of thousands of little images. Obviously the big image should be either a naked woman's silhouette or Bob Marley, if my time spent walking around inside the mall has taught me anything. Dickbutt
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xzzy posted:It reminds me of some of the photo collections the Library of Congress has online. They sent photographers all over the country to record the state of things and there's a lot of "documentary" shots like that. That's really cool, does anyone still do anything like that? Sounds like a sweet gig, for anyone not independently wealthy.
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VendaGoat posted:Dickbutt Don't be blasphemous, please. Steeplebutt is clearly the logical choice. EDIT: It actually worked better than expected 
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Aug 14, 2015 03:34
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Thank you
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Don't be blasphemous, please. Steeplebutt is clearly the logical choice.  Hail Dad Pics!
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ExecuDork posted:That's really cool, does anyone still do anything like that? Sounds like a sweet gig, for anyone not independently wealthy. I don't know if they still do it, almost all of it is from the 60's and earlier. It was the same sort of program that got us all those depression era shots from Dorothea Lange.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Don't be blasphemous, please. Steeplebutt is clearly the logical choice. holy poo poo hahahahahaha
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Don't be blasphemous, please. Steeplebutt is clearly the logical choice. Yes
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Just found this thread today. Loving everything, especially the NC photos (I grew up not too far from this). Rev Bleech_, I know a history archivist in the Triangle- if you and your dad are interested in donating these I think it would be really a really fascinating collection. Sounds like some but not all are public record already though the newspaper. But seeing them all together like you've been presenting, holy poo poo. Sorry to hear that Neckbeard. My condolences.
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BetterLekNextTime posted:Just found this thread today. Loving everything, especially the NC photos (I grew up not too far from this). Rev Bleech_, I know a history archivist in the Triangle- if you and your dad are interested in donating these I think it would be really a really fascinating collection. Cool...I'll float it by him, but I'm not really sure if the paper technically retains ownership of pre-1996 shots or not. I'll try and find out. Forgive the miserable condition of the negatives, but I found a roll in a box that the old man has mentioned to me several times but thought was lost forever, but it needs a little bit of explanation. See, in the ridiculously wealthy part of the county, just a block from homes that sometimes go for over a million dollars and less than a mile from the site of several prestigous golf tournaments sits a bar. This bar is called The Tater Barn, seen here circa 2014 along with its' single Google review.   Looks like they've classed the place up the last few years with vinyl siding but make no mistake, this place is the diviest dive that ever dived, completely out of character with the surrounding community. Until he steps in the door here, Greg Louganis will not truly know what "dive" means. It's maybe 400-500 square feet and populated by creepy boozehounds. When I say "creepy" I mean creepy in a Lovecraftian sense; there's something so off about them* that you half expect to find an altar to Dagon where the jukebox would be in a normal bar, the yellow-skinned barflies chanting fell passages and tossing offerings of Milwaukee's Best at it. That reviewer? I imagine him walking out of the place the same way Ronette walked down the railroad tracks in Twin Peaks. Dad mentioned these photos from the early 80s after I had delivered pizzas here one night (I had to share my revulsion with someone), but believed them lost. You see, one night a fire broke out next door to the Tater Barn. Unfavorable wind conditions managed to start the back of the Tater Barn itself burning. People usually try to get out of burning buildings.  Not at the Tater Barn; after a few minutes of gawking the dedicated alcoholics went back inside and resumed drinking as the firefighters were working to extinguish the back of the building.    I like to imagine that some fat lazy eyed dude was playing "Nearer My God to Thee" on a mouth harp just out of frame. The Tater Barn still inexplicably stands, in the midst of a community that literally codifies what colors you can paint your front door and forbids visible playground equipment in back yards * - My father knew at least one patron of the place in the 70s and early 80s; a local painter and alcoholic who appeared in the local hardware store the day Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, whereupon he purchased several cans of sterno and told the clerk he was "celebrating". You do the math. Rev. Bleech_ fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Aug 25, 2015 |
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Rev.Bleech_ holy poo poo your pictures are awesome. Here have some cool grandad pics, I'm trying to save the photographic history of my family by scanning old ones I find. Most of our pictures and stuff were lost somewhere during the process of migrating to the US.        
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HNasty posted:Rev.Bleech_ holy poo poo your pictures are awesome. Those are some hella Sikh pics!  (Seriously though, look forward to seeing more)
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Both these latest additions to this thread are totally rad. Best thread in Dorkroom!
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Here are a couple of cool dadpics (technically grandpa-pics, from my mother's family in Ohio)  Babby is drinking a beer that begins DREW--- any idea what brand that would be?
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Whereabouts in Ohio? Guessing that first one's somewhere along Lake Erie. No idea on the beer offhand but I think there were always a number of smaller breweries around Cleveland a ways back.
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Defenestration posted:
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DJExile posted:Whereabouts in Ohio? Guessing that first one's somewhere along Lake Erie. No idea on the beer offhand but I think there were always a number of smaller breweries around Cleveland a ways back. They're from Toledo area but that's not to say they couldn't go on a fishing trip elsewhere.
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Defenestration posted:They're from Toledo area but that's not to say they couldn't go on a fishing trip elsewhere. Ha, born and raised. What part?
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DJExile posted:Ha, born and raised. What part?  Community Corner pizza and hero shop, circa 1967. Very Mookie-esque. Probably in Queens though.  and this one, which really confused me until I figured it out.
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No worries, those are awesome pictures in any event
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I'm glad that even in the 60's people weren't afraid to make jokes about recent tragedies.
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Found some old dadpics over the holidays - here's my dad's 1970-something road trip across the US. More to come from Oklahoma farms when I get them scanned.     
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You should remove the red cast from some of these:
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