I've been scanning slides today, because the weather is kind of iffy and I'm done with my morning tennis match. These are from the middle 1970's, a time I well remember, but a few years before the birth of Unky Herb and the Prairie Princess. I scanned about twenty slides onto the SD memory card and transferred them to my Apple laptop. I also sent a few to my niece, Nicole, who was the requester of the original photos. Thanks, Nicole, for the inspiration.
This is the Boyd family from 1976, I think in Fort Wayne, Indiana - John, Sylvi, Johnny and Nancy. All have changed in the 34 years since the photo, but the slide is still in good shape. Photos are a kind of cheap time machine.
And Santini from the same trip - 1976. I didn't remember the photo, but I remember the person and a bit about the trip. I think it was Thanksgiving.
This is a slightly older photo. The date on the slide said October, 1973. Gino was coaching a kid's football team and I was trying to help out. I took some photos and I think I may have a super 8 mm film from the time, probably somewhere in my basement.
The scanner did a passable job with the scan, but it was necessary to tweak the images, using some of the features of Apple's iPhoto software. I had to lighten the exposure and mess with the color a bit, but I'm reasonably satisfied with the results.
The morning tennis at Wooddale did not go my way today. Bob and I lost two sets to Jerry and Pat, 6-7, 5-7. It was pretty good tennis and even, but I was a little off my game and a little fatigued from tennis four of the last five days. Pat and Jerry took it to us. And what they say is true. You cannot win them all.
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Wow. Still, my math says that in 1976 OSLO was 11 and Johnny was 9 -- they don't look that old in that photo. (TJ is currently 11.) That was our back yard at Hope Farm Road, though. Johnny Bench's brother lived next door.
Great photos. I've looked at the ones that Nicole has put on Facebook for her project -- I remembered all 65 of those.
By Thanksgiving on 1976 we were in DeKalb. There is one tree in the background without leaves, a sign of fall. Other than that it looks warm -- still leaves on one tree behind us, and the rose bushes.
Wow, How the years have changed the people in those photos. Not only have the looks greatly changed, but people have come and gone in that time, and the next generations to follow my brother and I, have not only enriched our lives, but have brought joy to all us.
OSLO
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