Fifty Years Ago Today
Sep 30, 2017 08:14:47 #
Autumn 1967 was the beginning of my junior year at Purdue University. On September 30 I took my Instamatic 100 {students didn't have much money back then} and walked to downtown Lafayette IN to see the last passenger train to run on the Monon Railroad.
When I got the pictures back from the developer, I must not have been very happy with this one {I think I was disappointed that I hadn't gotten a better view of the "farewell" signs railroad employees had placed on the side of the locomotive}, because I tossed the print and negative into a shoebox I used to collect material I didn't want to file but wasn't willing to trash. Over the next 42 years that box grew to become quite a large corrugated cardboard box which I moved several times. In 2009 I purchased a Nikon scanner and began the process of digitizing my collection of pictures. On occasion I would pull a few slides / negatives from the big box and either scan or dump {at age 69, I didn't want to bequeath this material to some unlucky person}. A few weeks ago I came across this negative nearly at the bottom of the box, and I had a new appreciation for this image that I hadn't seen in fifty years.
When I got the pictures back from the developer, I must not have been very happy with this one {I think I was disappointed that I hadn't gotten a better view of the "farewell" signs railroad employees had placed on the side of the locomotive}, because I tossed the print and negative into a shoebox I used to collect material I didn't want to file but wasn't willing to trash. Over the next 42 years that box grew to become quite a large corrugated cardboard box which I moved several times. In 2009 I purchased a Nikon scanner and began the process of digitizing my collection of pictures. On occasion I would pull a few slides / negatives from the big box and either scan or dump {at age 69, I didn't want to bequeath this material to some unlucky person}. A few weeks ago I came across this negative nearly at the bottom of the box, and I had a new appreciation for this image that I hadn't seen in fifty years.
Sep 30, 2017 08:24:12 #
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Sep 30, 2017 19:09:09 #
rehess wrote:
Autumn 1967 was the beginning of my junior year at... (show quote)
That's neat, RE ... a real collector ...
Oct 1, 2017 06:46:30 #
You should check to see if there is a historical society in Lafayette. I'm sure they would treasure a copy of your picture.
Oct 1, 2017 07:11:12 #
Oct 1, 2017 07:57:27 #
Oct 1, 2017 15:39:33 #
When I taught for 3 years after retirement, I told the students to save all their photos.. because of no worth now, in ten years they will have a feel for the old days and friends that have disappeared. Students now will look back to 2017 in 2067 and feel the passage of time and appreciate the memory prompting photo.
Oct 1, 2017 19:09:12 #
dpullum wrote:
When I taught for 3 years after retirement, I told the students to save all their photos.. because of no worth now, in ten years they will have a feel for the old days and friends that have disappeared. Students now will look back to 2017 in 2067 and feel the passage of time and appreciate the memory prompting photo.
That's so true, Don..........on another subject the close up lens attachment that you suggested worked great the one time that I've used it, but need to spend more time with it. Many thanks!
Oct 1, 2017 21:38:42 #
Feb 10, 2018 00:32:41 #
repleo wrote:
You should check to see if there is a historical society in Lafayette. I'm sure they would treasure a copy of your picture.
I received notification this past week that the "Collections Committee" of the county historical society has accepted my donation of this image.
Feb 10, 2018 06:12:57 #
rehess wrote:
I received notification this past week that the "Collections Committee" of the county historical society has accepted my donation of this image.
Congratulations. Win/Win. I bet you are thrilled to find a permanent home for your photo and the historical society is thrilled to have preserved a piece of history.
Feb 10, 2018 10:09:00 #
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