Great story..
Any chance you would consider sharing these photos online?
Jim W
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From: Scj9000@xxxxxxx <Scj9000@xxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 8:07 AM
Subject: [OM] Kinda OT: 50 Year-old Film
>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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