Yellowstone 1954

Jeff Fillmore

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A couple Kodachrome Slides I ran across this afternoon- Taken in 1954 in Yellowstone by my Grandfather with an Argus C4 which I still have. The car is a '54 Pontiac by the way- my dad was inside feeding the bears marshmallows. 🙄

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OMG that brings back memories! We went out to Yellowstone when I was 8 or so and I do remember the bears climbing up on cars like that begging for food. They seemed very tame. Everybody was feeding them even though they told you not to!

I still have (somewhere) some old B&W photos of Old Faithful taken with my Starflash. 🙂

(Yeah, that one looks like a guy in a bear suit, maybe a Letterman stunt.) 🙂 🙂
 
It was absolutely 'nuts' to venture out of the car in a situation like that. Bears are unpredictable and difficult to read. Last time I was in Yellowstone (1991) a tourist had just been attacked by a bear and bitten in the face (they usually do that). When the guy woke up again at the hospital, he had asked; 'do I have any brains left?' according to the local radio.

We have just had two recent fatal bear attacks here in Scandinavia. A hunter with dog in Sweden and a Finish policeman out jogging in Finland.
 
Yea, wonderful old photos alright. A classic example of what not to do with bears, then or now.

Bob
 
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