Susan;
I concur. Great story. Wish it were mine.
And I'm daydreaming that there may be a magazine editor (Life, People, who
knows?) who'd be very interested in this story. 'slice of Americana
rediscovered'. 'pictures revive family memories' there's a little romance
involved, some hanky-panky, all accompanied by great photos shot by the
participants but never developed . and even some historical photos of
relatives dating back to the Civil war... yada yada yada. Just a passing
thought...
George
>Thanks, Susan, for sharing this beautiful story!
>
>Frank van Lindert
>Utrecht Holland.
>
>
>
>On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:19:31 EST, Scj9000@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>Speaking of slide immortality, just wanted to share a story.
>>
>>In 1990 my Grandmother was dying of cancer, leaving me with the proverbial
>>house to clean and sell, etc. In a closet, tucked under the stairs
(literally
>>wedged on the floor where the stair met the floor at an angle) was a large
box
>>of prints dating from 1910 on, tintypes and daggueratypes (sp???) of my
>>relatives from the Civil War,WW1, WW2 etc., and a roll of undeveloped
slide
>>film marked "1947" in my father's handwriting. She told me how my father
loved
>>to run around in 1946-1947 with a 35mm an uncle had brought back from the
war
>>(Leica)...indeed my Dad talked often of it and taught me how to use a 35mm
>>before his early death) and that this must have been one of those rolls.
I
>>didn't recognize the film type, and soon found that i could not find
anyone in
>>that area (Roanoke, Va) who could develop it. Finally I found a large lab
in
>>Winchester, Va (large operation a pro referred me to..sorry i can't
remember
>>name..too long ago) that said they could, so i sent it off.
>>
>> After a week they called me and said that they felt the emulsion had been
>>distroyed as there was a thick layer of nasty green and grey fuzzy mold
>>culture that had grown into the emulsion, and could not guarantee results,
>>yada, yada. I told them forget responsibility and go forth and see what
could
>>be salvaged. Well..
>>
>>You have never seen such brilliant, vibrant colors in your life! My Mom
and
>>Dad eloped in January of their senior year (1947) in high school (bet that
>>made the parents sooo happy??) to Bristol, Va/Tenn. They had to come back
the
>>next day and "face the music". I remember hearing how they really got in
an
>>uproar when they found that, upon arriving down there, they were too late
to
>>get married and had to spend the honeymoon night FIRST and THEN got
married
>>the next morning!! LOL
>>
>> This roll had evidently been started that summer at my
Great-Grandmother's
>>very rural farm, showing her pulling golden biscuits out of a grand old
wood-
>>burning stove, running clothes thru an old wringer washer, painting the
>>outhouse, priming the pump, almost like an American Journal. The end of
the
>>roll proved to be even more priceless to my family, as it shows two
terrified
>>teenagers on the very day they came home to "face the music". Pale,
evidence
>>of my mother's tears, my Father's protective arm around her shoulder, my
>>Grandmother's red nose and unhappy countenance, the groups posing around
the
>>1936 Hudson Terraplane (sp? again..cool car..)
>>
>>Christmas of '90 I had them blown up for my Mother (her first wedding
picture)
>>and my Grandmother (pictures of her Mom who she had not seen for 40
years!)
>>
>>So...what ye click today is not necessarily gonna be gone tomorrow. And
later,
>>someone else will delight in what you have done. So keep on clicking!
>>Susan
>>
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