chapter 391

7/12/2015

Nelson Slides

slip sliding away

link to my Nelson Slides folder (20pics)

Sometimes the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, as in this case. The ensemble might appear more interesting than when you actually look at an individual picture. Uncle Nelson took many 35mm slides over 30+ years. Needless to say many of those 1500 shots suffered from a multitude of photographic short comings, but I edited a few that do capture some interesting slices of time from a family perspective. There are also some questionable indexing date issues.

This is a decent family Thanksgiving shot dated Nov 1962. Shown are a variety of personalities from whimsical to possible anger issues. GMa Nana Knochenhauer Schmidt on the wall (which Sis has absconded with currently). I was to graduate Virgil High School in the Spring and Dale I guess was about to enter the Army? 

The original Ektachrome slide color balance was way off. The bulb flash had over exposed the foreground with background very dark. Many dust blotches on the slide. Software cleanup the best I could do here. Not that this is a great photo recovery, but if you want good results you need to scan and edit carefully one at a time. If you want the quick mass scanning approach the results will suffer.

I'll just hit a few highlights. This was one on the earliest Virgil Christmas 1953 at Grandma's just next door. These holiday family gatherings were warmly looked forward to and memorable highlights of that period.

Slides were not dated from the developer. The TV seems to date to 1954. 1954 is written on a prior Xmas slide where clearly Lyle is a year older.

Dale and I proudly displaying what seems to be our Johnny Eagle Red Rider cap rifles being careful not to shoot our eyes out. I can see the hammer on Dale's rifle so it wasn't the Daisy BB guns we got later. Cuz Gail loved her dolls (specific model names- who cares). Bill and Lyle all dressed up (not to be an ongoing tradition). TV might have been an RCA CT100 early color model. Only program in color was Bonanza starting in 1959.

Baby Sis 1953, Mom at a young 28. I think there was a purposeful reason to have Mom sit in this chair with Dad's homemade arrows in the background. I remember he had some sort of lathe type device so we could hand turn the arrows painting them and fletching- shaping the turkey feathers by burning them on a hot wire (still remember that smell), hot glue the points and notches on. He let us do some. Closet door not yet built. 

1950's Kenmore E6354 Sewing machine in background cabinet which I still have now. Had to go to the cellar to make sure it was really  there. Lamp seems to be an electric conversion on an actual kerosene lamp.

Historically speaking, not many people have a picture of Snow Crest on Page Green Road. This from April 1, 1956. A toilet is in the lower center orange building (outhouse w/o running water). Skier rides the rope tow. Not much else there. 1956 Newspaper spoke of this site as well as the soon to be built Greek Peak. 

A lost site.

Virgil resident heads ski patrol.

Takeaway: You can recover bits of lost history if you have a mind to. But beware of the dreaded "Boring Family Snapshots" and be selective when presenting only a choice few. I just googled that and it yielded my Chapter 22 . Interesting?

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