My best kid picture...
Mar 7, 2021 20:24:56 #
This is our oldest, at eight months, while I was still in engineering school. He's 51 today and while I would have been thrilled if he'd decided to be an engineer, instead he's worked his entire career, except for four year in the Army, for basically the same company, starting out as a grill cook in a seafood restaurant while in high school, working up to an executive chef at one of their flagship restaurants on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, to where he's now the corporate executive responsible for that same concept, except now for the entire country:
John
John
November 1971 - Minolta SRT-101 - 135mm
Mar 7, 2021 20:35:13 #
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Mar 7, 2021 20:42:40 #
Sidwalkastronomy wrote:
how many people can identify what he's holding? Slide rule
and the nickname...Mar 7, 2021 21:00:07 #
Great Portrait!
I still have my Post Versilog slipstick. Occasionally take it to remind myself I can still use it.
I still have my Post Versilog slipstick. Occasionally take it to remind myself I can still use it.
Mar 7, 2021 21:02:16 #
Sidwalkastronomy wrote:
how many people can identify what he's holding? Slide rule
I'd be more impressed by how many can use it correctly and accurately.
Mar 7, 2021 21:15:04 #
PhotogHobbyist wrote:
I'd be more impressed by how many can use it correctly and accurately.
We had one instructor that said some of us had calibrated eyelashes.
Mar 7, 2021 21:29:55 #
Mar 7, 2021 21:38:42 #
The slide rule in the picture wasn't mine. I was taking senior pictures in our apartment (I charged $5 for a single 5x7 B&W print for the yearbook whereas the only studio in town charged a minimum of $25. It put a lot of food on the table that year.) and one of my classmate's handed their 'silpstick' to our son and since the camera was already set-up, I was able to quickly get the shot that I did. I subsequently entered that picture in a photo contest that the school held in the spring, and took something like 3rd place (which put a bit more food on the table).
I just noticed that the date on the picture is not correct. It was taken in November 1970.
Note that I used a Pickett slide rule, which was made out of Aluminum, because I wanted it to last a lifetime, and it has.
John
I just noticed that the date on the picture is not correct. It was taken in November 1970.
Note that I used a Pickett slide rule, which was made out of Aluminum, because I wanted it to last a lifetime, and it has.
John
Mar 7, 2021 22:25:51 #
Mar 7, 2021 22:36:15 #
fjdarling
Loc: Mesa, Arizona, USA
I don't remember what brand my slide rule was, but it was plastic and fairly cheap. My Dad had a beautiful one with a wooden core and what looked like ivory overlay, metal end braces and a metal window (forgot the correct name of that part) with real glass. I don't remember what the brand name was on it. I tried to find out what happened to it after he passed but nobody knows. The one in the photo looks like good quality, too. Love the photo!
Mar 8, 2021 06:16:16 #
Thought he would have migrated by now to a calculator - but great capture.
Mar 8, 2021 07:28:28 #
OldCADuser wrote:
This is our oldest, at eight months, while I was s... (show quote)
Cute portrait!!!!
Mar 8, 2021 10:40:32 #
Who would have thought that the slipstick, a scientific tool, could also be used to solve culinary equations. You sure captured a great memory with this cute shot! 
Mar 8, 2021 11:30:12 #
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