Posted on 02/22/2009 6:09:44 PM PST by Dallas59
Yep, that’s the guy. I did not think that he would still be living, but good for him. :)
Also reminds us why it is important to label photos (or put negatives in envelopes or containers that are labeled).
Only problem - with today’s disappearing use of real film in the face of the digital era... such memories will vanish with the people captured...
Too bad it's not really him, or we'd have solved this mystery.
A higher resolution scan would be a big help. Images posted in this format here are generally smaller for quick loading. Unlike shows such as CSI, reality is - you cannot add details that are not captured on film (or in a scan or digital photo). You can interpolate - but that is a crap-shoot based on digital guesses.
Us too. People HAVE to label those old pictures while the people in them are still within living memory. Use a pencil on the back.
The problem is that people take so many pictures that they find it daunting to label and organize them all, and so they don't do any. This has only gotten worse since the advent of digital photography.
My wife has a plastic box as big as an ice chest full of family pix going back to when her parents were children. I tell her that if she doesn't throw 98 out of every 100 away, and put the rest in an album labeled with names and dates, she might as well never have taken any pictures at all.
I've taken something like 20,000 digital pictures since the equipment was invented. I have only kept about five hundred. Easy to archive from one medium to another, easy to organize, easy to label, easy to print out as a picture book for long-term preservation.
-ccm
How about player piano rolls? I've got dozens of them left by my great-grandfather.
Could be S1-223, though! (ess-one, I mean)
Scan them and post them! Somebody may be looking for them!
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if you really think they could be related, you might print out copies the pix and mail them to Aunt Queenie, and ask if she recognizes the people. Then get back to the original twitter poster.
A couple months ago, on a whim, I spent a couple hours driving through the countryside of Louisa and Albemarle counties here in central Virginia, and I stopped to visit a graveyard at a church on a rural highway. [Yes, it was during the day time.] So many names, so many years. Veterans from all wars, civilians, husbands, wives, children, young and old. And, although I never met any of them, I couldn't help but think, "These are Americans. These are the people who made this country what it is today, for better or for worse. And, for that, I am thankful."
Perhaps we should think the same about the folks in these photographs. We don't know who they are, but they are Americans. They are the people who made this country what it is today, for better or for worse. And for that, we are thankful."
[As for that driving habit of mine, the Skyline Drive and Blue Ridge Parkways are twenty minutes drive from Charlottesville, so I head on over there whenever I can.]
Google the plate # 51-223 and flickr has some info.
Check google plate #51-223. It seems to be a Delaware plate that expires 1941 since no 1940 plate was issued.
someone on the Flickr page suggests that the license plate is a Delaware plate.
There is a Skyline drive down the backbone of the San Francisco Penninsula. Obviously, it rarely snows, and when it does, everyone goes up there to experience it. However, the brick houses in the other pictures don’t fit.
Cherry Blossoms are around late March to the middle of April. Yes, a very professional camera. I don’t know about Easter bonnets because everyone wore hats back then but they are very nicely dressed, so good guess.
I believe there is a Skyline Drive in the southern california San Bernardino Mountains, up near either Lake Arrowhead or Big Bear lake. It snows up there regularly, keeping the ski lifts open in the winter.
That one pic by the lake could have been taken at Greenwood Lake in Ringwood NJ. Which is where Skyline Drive is. Skyline Drive runs along Greenwood Lake. Maybe someone in the area would recognize the shoreline even if its back from 1940.
How cool!
I treasure my old family photos. There’s a wedding picture of my Great Grandpa John and his wife (my Great Grandma), Emma. It is HAUNTING because in the photo, Emma looks JUST like me. I mean, you could dress me up, sit me down in the same chair and you couldn’t tell the difference. She died before I was born.
I have a few old Victorian-era shots that I have framed in old silver frames. I have no idea who the women are, but they sure are neat to speculate over...
Hope you can find the family!
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