Archaeology at Home or Jackpot: I found the negatives

And some more scanned from some damaged prints.
Women of the seventies 🙂
 

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These are scanned fro K64 slides .
Taken in Bath Aug/Sept `75.
I never found out why the man was in the plastic bag.
 

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Finally from me again from the `70s ,early 80`s.
I was reading Rolling Stone too much and thought that I was Jim Marshall.
The group packed up shortly afterwards but the chap in the dark jacket is still touring and playing guitar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFzVmAIRBKQ
 

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This one I did take, while on the job in 1963: pumping gas in the San Fernando Valley. It sounds romantic doesn't it, it wasn't:

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Michael, these are great. Jim Marshall didn't have anything on you except for some lucky breaks.
Michael Markey said:
Finally from me again from the `70s ,early 80`s.
I was reading Rolling Stone too much and thought that I was Jim Marshall.
The group packed up shortly afterwards but the chap in the dark jacket is still touring and playing guitar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFzVmAIRBKQ
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And a better memory.
Those first were from a Bob Dylan /Eric Clapton concert at Blackbushe.
The Rolling Stones stuff must be elsewhere together with the 1971 Isle of Wight shots taken with a 1930 Kodak Hawkette.
Why on earth did I take that ?
 
This is all very fascinating and thanks to Rob, Keith, Michael et al. I never realized that someone else's pictures from the past would be so enjoyable. Keep it up, and hope there is a sub-forum for this. I'll try looking for some of mine that date back to 1955.
 
Great stuff. Old photos hold a special place for me. My father had his own makeshift darkroom and a FED w/ 50mm Industar. Only one album of his photos survived, something that I am holding onto dearly. Due to religious views and being raised during communist Russia, my family had trouble with the government and my grandfather spend several years in prison and then prison camp in Siberia. When leaving Russia to immigrate to the US, my family feared that there photos could be viewed as treason or something. They ended up burning everything but one album. Any time this is brought up, both my folks look deeply saddened. Seeing this old album is what made me want to get into photography and makes me stick with film. I visited my dads father two years ago and found that he had several albums of pictures. In one of the, he is holding and really old folding camera. I was so excited. From the looks of the camera, it looked like a medium format 6x9. When I visit next time, I am going to have to ask to borrow their albums so I can get them scanned. His health is failing and I want make sure the memories are preserved.

I hope the mods do create a sub forum.
 
Rob, thank you for sharing this archive. I really like this rediscovery of 'Archeology at home'. The charm of old films is unique, with the memory of 'lost time' ... I also like to see New York in the '80s. I have something similar photos of Paris in the late 80s and I'm always surprised to see how things change or disappear in a few years. I have not lost a lot of films. The only loss that I'm very sorry is a film with nude photos of my first girlfriend in the early 80 🙂 ...

Luigi
 
😀 on the nude photos. I have a few kodachromes. but you won't see them here, as married that girlfriend.

Luigi, I hope you'll share some of those Paris images (and here, all this time I assumed your screen name only meant "yes man" and now I discover your first name is Luigi; silly me).

I think one the fortunate things about Paris is that the city seems less bent on wantonly destroying its architectural heritage, so probably we've had more buildings disappear here than you have.

luiman said:
Rob, thank you for sharing this archive. I really like this rediscovery of 'Archeology at home'. The charm of old films is unique, with the memory of 'lost time' ... I also like to see New York in the '80s. I have something similar photos of Paris in the late 80s and I'm always surprised to see how things change or disappear in a few years. I have not lost a lot of films. The only loss that I'm very sorry is a film with nude photos of my first girlfriend in the early 80 🙂 ...

Luigi
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I will be waiting for these 1955 images with baited breath. Thanks for the kind words.

leica M2 fan said:
This is all very fascinating and thanks to Rob, Keith, Michael et al. I never realized that someone else's pictures from the past would be so enjoyable. Keep it up, and hope there is a sub-forum for this. I'll try looking for some of mine that date back to 1955.
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Pavel, thanks for sharing your story. My grandfather had a brother who lived in Moscow and came to the US just once in the late 1960's. We were told that he was a professional photographer. He gave me a gift of a small Soviet-made slide viewer (which I still have) and some color slides of Moscow (I have no idea where they might be or they still exist). The thing that was odd to me even then (I was about nine years) is that slides were the sort that one buys at a gift shop, professionally printed on the mounts with labels. So, although my great uncle was allegedly a photographer by trade, for whatever reason (perhaps concerns by USSR authorities), he didn't bring any of his own photos.

I do hope that you're able to borrow those albums and share with us.

pevelg said:
Great stuff. Old photos hold a special place for me. My father had his own makeshift darkroom and a FED w/ 50mm Industar. Only one album of his photos survived, something that I am holding onto dearly. Due to religious views and being raised during communist Russia, my family had trouble with the government and my grandfather spend several years in prison and then prison camp in Siberia. When leaving Russia to immigrate to the US, my family feared that there photos could be viewed as treason or something. They ended up burning everything but one album. Any time this is brought up, both my folks look deeply saddened. Seeing this old album is what made me want to get into photography and makes me stick with film. I visited my dads father two years ago and found that he had several albums of pictures. In one of the, he is holding and really old folding camera. I was so excited. From the looks of the camera, it looked like a medium format 6x9. When I visit next time, I am going to have to ask to borrow their albums so I can get them scanned. His health is failing and I want make sure the memories are preserved.

I hope the mods do create a sub forum.
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Keith said:
It amazes me that you don't have to go too far back in time before things start to look very different in photographs.
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You only have to go to the 80's for things to start looking quite different. Once you get back to the 70's, it was much different world. I find it interesting you can tell which decade a lot of photo's from probably the 20's through the 80's were simply by how people were dressed, and how they wore their hair. How true is that today? I can't decide if I simply ignore such things now, or if there really has been that little change the last 20 years.
 
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