Andrew wrote:
> there was a wonderful image of an passing express train with a
> drive-in audience in the foreground. Quite remarkable.
The moviegoers, parked in their cars, are watching a sabre-jet streak
across the screen. Really quite a moment in history. I caught just the
tail end of it . . . . the image reminded me of all the Dads on my
street, who came home on hot summer evenings with identical checkerboard
stains on the back of their (always) white shirts: Imprints from the
WWI-era wicker seats on the stifling, Erie Lackawanna trains out of
Hoboken. While overhead, the Boeing 707's would leave Newark with a
terrific, deafening roar. Machinery really held a kid's imagination
back then. My computer seems such a pale substitute now, even though
it's transformed my adult life.
OM content: None, although the part of Link's photo that shows the plane
was added in the darkroom. The projector was no match for his
flashbulbs.
Morgan Sparks
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