American Road Trip 1979 on Kodachrome

#USA14-29 Galveston sunrise, Texas, 18 May 1979
(note the previous picture is incorrectly labelled sunset on 17 May)

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DownUnder said:
So you missed New Mexico. A great loss for you. But yes, true, six weeks to see as vast a place as the American West, means some sacrifices had to be made.

Sad to think we both may not get there again. Me, lucky enough to have stayed almost three years over two periods, in northern NM. The culture unlike any I had grown up with in eastern Canada, gave me many formative experiences in my young adulthood. I still miss that state to this day.

Now I may get busy and fill the gap. Tomorrow I'll look for my NM slides from 1979, and set up my scanner, and try to give you a little competition. Or a boost.

Your (as always most excellent) San Antonio images brought back other memories. Especially of The Alamo. As a Canadian-born kid in the 1950s, I grew up with Davy Crockett and the story of the battle of the Alamo. I believe John Wayne made a film of it, and I probably saw it, way back then.
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It would be great to see New Mexico through your eyes back then - and to see what I missed. I'll look forward to your thread.

Cheers,
Lynn
 
#USA14-36 Iberville St New Orleans 18 May 1979
Heading out for a night on the town. Sometime during that night I ended up entering a brothel, quite by accident. I thought it was a fancy hotel, in period style - imposing white verandahs and all. And a well dressed clientele. After the doorman informed me of the nature of the establishment, I turned away in some embarrassment.

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lynnb said:
#USA14-11 Royal Street Crossing, San Antonio, TX, 16 May 1979
San Antonio's River Walk was a delightful surprise.

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San Antonio is still well known for the river walk! They’ve kept with it, and improved it over the years. Lots of nice development, hotels, events are there. It’s truly great. San Antonio is probably one of the more pleasant places in Texas, while still being a big city (my pick remains Houston, for food and diversity reasons). The city, however, does have a fairly bad vehicle theft problem! My brother in law is a mural artist, who has done a lot of work in the city, and his truck has been nearly stolen three times over the course of about a year. It’s truly a little shocking. Not to diminish from the city though, it is a great place in Texas, just one little weird anecdote about it.

DownUnder said:
So you missed New Mexico. A great loss for you. But yes, true, six weeks to see as vast a place as the American West, means some sacrifices had to be made.

Sad to think we both may not get there again. Me, lucky enough to have stayed almost three years over two periods, in northern NM. The culture unlike any I had grown up with in eastern Canada, gave me many formative experiences in my young adulthood. I still miss that state to this day.

Now I may get busy and fill the gap. Tomorrow I'll look for my NM slides from 1979, and set up my scanner, and try to give you a little competition. Or a boost.

Your (as always most excellent) San Antonio images brought back other memories. Especially of The Alamo. As a Canadian-born kid in the 1950s, I grew up with Davy Crockett and the story of the battle of the Alamo. I believe John Wayne made a film of it, and I probably saw it, way back then.
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I grew up a lot in Albuquerque. I lived there off and on in the 80s and early 90s. A lot about it is lost to me, just hazy memories, but I remember the food! The smell of green chilis roasting in huge metal cage tumblers outside the grocery stores, the rich hominy soups, the roast pork tomales my uncle’s mother made every year. It’s a world away from Texas, where I’ve made my home lately.
 
The shots from Johnson Space Center are exactly as I remember the place when I was a kid. Now, if I could only find that long lost Fisher Space Pen my mom bought me on one of those visits . . . . 😀
 
#US14-37 Canal St, New Orleans, 19 May 1979.
An early morning departure from New Orleans, starting with a drive around the old city. The streets were deserted, so these pictures are more of an architectural survey than anything else. This first picture was taken outside the La Salle Hotel where we were staying (the hotel is now closed).

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#US15-03 Bourbon Street, New Orleans, 19 May 1979.
An early morning departure from New Orleans, starting with a drive around the old city

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#US15-09 New Orleans, 19 May 1979.
An early morning departure from New Orleans, starting with a drive around the old city. We drove slowly with the van side door open, to make photographs easier.

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