Housguy mentioned his fathers beautiful Japanese garden. I love it, would like the photo several times over.
Got me thinking about my dad...
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This was my dad on a gun dating 1524 in Germany
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No date this monument was erected but is standing no more
Pretty cool though, a leading knight was shot trying to cross over a wall.
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FDR bridge ceremony April 21, 1945
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General Patton, I know that name...sorry missed the caption left pic, Patton again, 2nd from left.
Dad was a photographer, mortar man, and radio man in WWll. I think the radios weighed 80# IIRC
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Tank deterrents
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Dentist office
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My dad and grandfather built a processing lab in the 50's on our property. I was there the day the semi delivered the colour developing upgrade and dryer.
We did school pics, weddings, Santa even parachuted in on opening day after Thanksgiving one year. Also did restoration work.
Oddest request was to come to the morgue and take picture of a lady's husband in the casket (3am!!!) and make a picture of him as normal.
Take different sized pictures and collage together as normal, one from a biker (that had died) on his bike, and add it to a picture of his wife
since no pictures of them together could be found. Folks were scared to change from B&W when he pioneered colour into our tri-state area.
He was on bicycle at that time single speed 3:1 ratio Schwinn lots of hills around here, few tornadoes.
Dads 1st camera was a shoe box, with a pin hole for the aperture, and photographic paper taped to the back of the box.
Me, I know very little about cameras and developing except dad saved all his silver byproduct in a trash can on top of the roof...