Streets Loc: Euless, TX.

All were taken from Sentinel Dome.
#1. Half Dome
#2. Nevada(top) and Vernal Falls, Fed by the Merced River
#3. Royal Arches. Note the Rockfall accumulation at the base of cliff.

All were copied from Kodachrome slides.

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theoldman

Great old photos. I am a little surprised that you got that much color shift. I am a young fellow compared to you (only 80) but my slides from the 60's have survived well.

No matter, still great photos. Makes me want to pull some of mine. I have a movie of the folks building the fire for the fire fall I need to copy.

Dave

photoam Loc: Fergus Falls, MN

Fantastic.
As.a boy back in the 50s my family used to camp every summer in Yosemite. That was back when they still did the firefall ?from Half Dome? And we’d gather to watch the bears in the nearby garbage dump
What amazed me about Yosemite and the High Sierra was the sheer faces of granite everywhere. ?2-4,000 feet tall?
And driving some of the less used, more rugged passes like Monitor and Ebbetts Passes! Wow! And the altitude markers, often every 500 or 1000 feet of change. Those are pretty much gone. But then our cars no longer get vapor locks or boil over. Even today’s modern cars as you leave the Central Valley and head west into the cooler, foggy SFBay Area near Livermore will cough and wheeze a little.
At our Camp Curry campground I used to find friends. we would gather on the well demarcated sidewalk on the bridge over the Merced River. One of us would slap the rear fender of a car, the roll on the ground in agony. The rangers thought ill of our fun.
Old Guy

Streets Loc: Euless, TX.

Here's one I missed. Yosemite falls as seen from Glacier Point. Camera used was an Alpa 6b

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cameraf4 Loc: Delaware

Yep, they kinda have that Kodachrome feel, colorful but a tad cool. I just finally visited Yosemite last year. Thanks for posting these old memories.

steve49 Loc: massachusetts

Great shots... Love them.
I have been digging through old slides and photos with the scanner lately also.
My earliest is from 1971...

mal949 Loc: Tucson, AZ

I hiked the John Muir Trail, from the valley floor to Glacier Point, many times during the 1950's and 60's. These photos stir memories! My collection of Yosemite photos (most were B&W) were destroyed in an unfortunate event. Thank you for sharing these great images and giving me recall regarding how Yosemite use to be. :)

dreff Loc: Bow, WA

great shooting locations....surprised I haven't seen more from these

John from gpwmi Loc: Michigan

Great old photos from the high-ground. Especially like the second one and the one you originally missed. Only from up there can you get that wide view of the valley. Thanks very much for sharing, Streets.

Photocraig

Much of that blue cast is caused by less atmospheric filtering of the sunlight at higher elevation AND a large amount of blue skylight reflection coming from the schist in the Granite. This isn't a Kodachrome only phenomenon, but all of the Chrome and Negative color films recorded this area with a blue cast. It is a Sierra Nevada granite Mountain range photo-phenomenon. Today, we'd change it in Post. Then, many used a Amber colored Daylight filter (49G???). Great compositions, a very special place.
C

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

Very nice photos, A point of view I've never seen before, thanks for sharing!!