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Another Deep Dive

September 19, 2020

Last week I spent about three days scanning three boxes of slides. Paula’s Dad was always taking pictures, mostly as color 35mm slides. This batch was about 350 slides taken (best I can tell taken in the 1950’s and some in the 1970’s

I have decided to post about a dozen or so. These pictures were of Mt Lassen National Park and other mountains in California and the west. Click or tap on each picture to see the detail.

Harold worked as a high school teacher of biology in Long Beach. In the summer, he worked as a park ranger at Mt Lassen National Park. The Stanley family would head north on the day after school closed for the summer in June. There was no one happier than Harold heading north to Lassen in the summer.

Here’s what the area looked like in June. There was much snow left. The cabin was at Summit Lake where they would live for the summer.

Categories: Pictures
Tags: 1950’s, Lassen, National Parks

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Wednesday

April 22, 2020

Here we are on Wednesday. Just another day in paradise. We did our Zoom Senior Bible Study this morning.

Paula received a picture of Mary via email. We haven’t been able to go over to visit. They are on lockdown. Only staff and end of life visitors allowed in.

So the staff did “makeovers” for all the residents. Mary looked outstanding.

Here’s the picture.

Paula found some pictures taken at her graduation from nursing school (c. 1974)

She also found a stash of postcards from her travels back in the day. I will post some of them tomorrow.

That’s all for now. Stay safe.

Joe

Categories: Corona, Pictures
Tags: Harbor-College, Mary, Pictures

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My New Gadget

December 26, 2019

This Christmas I got a new electronic gadget called a “Nixplay”. It is an electronic display for one’s favorite pictures. It connects to your WiFi and you can upload your favorite pictures. Then it cycles through all of your pictures 10 seconds each.

There is an app for your iPhone or other smart device that is used to select pictures to send to the device. You can also adjust setting to your liking. Set the time spent on each picture, for instance. You can set it to shut off at night.

This is the 10” version (measured from corner to corner). It runs about $150 and be had at Amazon and other retailers. There is 13” version that of course costs more money.

It’s pretty easy to setup. Plug it in, connect to your WiFi. Then download the app from the app-store, then pair with your nixplay. Then start selecting photos. Takes about 10 minutes

You can adjust settings to auto off/on, it can display current time on lower right corner.

Categories: Apple, apps, Christmas, iPhone, Pictures, Technology
Tags: Nixplay, Pictures

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1SE for July 2019

August 1, 2019

Here is my 1SE for July.

Categories: 1 Sec Every Day, 1SE, Pictures
Tags: 1SE

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Father’s Day

June 16, 2019

Well tomorrow is Father’s Day. So, I thought I would write about my Dad. My Dad died in early 1968 at the age of 6o something. He died of cardiac arrest.

I have often thought of how far we have come on heart health issues. My dad suffered a heart attack in the mid fifties. Back then, they didn’t have much treatment for heart disease. I don’t know much about what happened seeing as I was 7 or 8.

But I do remember this. My dad asked the doctor how he was going to make upstairs into our home. We lived in two family house in Brighton, MA and we occupied the second floor portion.

So the doctor’s answer was he should take it slow. Say one Hail Mary on each step. That would do it.

So fast forward ten years. He was scheduled for gall bladder surgery. He had excessive bleeding from the surgery and surgeons scheduled him for a return visit to the OR to try to find the source of the bleed. So he arrested on the table in OR. The surgeons revived him but he never regained consciousness and died about eight weeks later. Sigh.

He was a great father and I have always missed him.

In honor of Father’s Day here are a couple of my favorite photos of him.

Dad with his pipe. Sitting in his chair.

Mom and Dad. Berkshires. C 1950

Categories: Family, Pictures
Tags: Dad, Father's Day

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Spring Time in San Pedro

March 9, 2019

I decide that today that I needed to do photo tour of San Pedro to see the Spring wild flower blooms. Paula didn’t need me at home, so I was free for a couple of hours. This is a few of the pictures that I took. My apologies to my friends back east, who are still feeling the effects of Winter.

First set of pictures is of an area called San Pedro Hill near 9th & Western. The ground is not stable enough to support construction, so the wild flowers can grow. By summer time, this area will be a golden brown, but right now it very green.

Then, I continued south-bound on Western and turned right onto 25th Street. This area is subject to many landslides, so the wildflowers grow unbothered. One of the areas that has a park is called Abalone Cove. Here are the pictures:

And finally, I headed east on 25th Street and headed to an overlook on Gaffey street with a great view of LA Harbor. It was a great day for the the sail boats.

Picture taking done. Now to stop the store for some laundry detergent. The Girl Scouts were outside selling their wares. Got a box of cookies. Not on my shopping list.

Finally, got a Venti iced coffee at Starbucks. Day is done. [BTW All picture were taken with my iPhone 8 plus.]

Categories: Pictures, San Pedro
Tags: Pictures

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Annenberg Space for Photography

September 7, 2018

Paula and I had a day off from caring for Mary on Friday. We arranged for a sitter then we headed north to Century City to the Annenberg Space for Photography. Annenberg has been having an display called “Not an Ostrich” that ends this weekend. Admission and parking was free. All we had to pay was our fee to Dawn to take care of Mary.

Dawn took Mary to get her hair done at “The Mane Place”. Then got her her usual chocolate shake. Mary was a happy camper.

So Century City is up near Hollywood. It is home to several TV and movie studios including Fox Studios and Sony Studios. One can tell that it’s a movie studio because it occupies an entire city block and the buildings are about 50 feet high with absolutely no windows. Usually there is a guarded fancy gate near the middle.

So we arrived at noon in the parking garage under the building where we found out that the museum was closed until 2 pm for a private showing. Boo-Hoo! So we stayed anyway and went to have some lunch. There were several lunch places with various cuisines (Mexican, Chinese, Burgers, etc.). So we had a slow quiet lunch and hung out for a while waiting for 2 pm. The area outside the building had lots of chairs and places to sit and watch people go by.

So the museum had a small set of the huge collection at the Library of Congress in Washington DC covering from the Civil War to the present. One can browse the collection online at http://loc.gov/pictures

Here is a sampler (a very small sampler) of some of the pictures. There was a wide variety of American.

1936 Migrant Worker

Queen Liliuokalani (Last Queen of Hawaii)

LA Skyline

Point Fermin Lighthouse, San Pedro

Santa Monica Pier

Rosa Parks

Minuteman Statue. Lexington, MA

Golden Gate Bridge

Needs no explanation

Riverboat on Mississippi

Oil Field Texas

Cotton Gin

Masonic Lodge, Georgetown, TX

Categories: Art, Los Angeles, Pictures
Tags: Annenberg, Pictures

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1 Second Everyday

January 11, 2018

So I discovered a new app (new to me) a few days ago. It’s called “1SecondEveryday“. It’s an app for putting together a photographic timeline of whatever you have been doing. The app is available for both iPhone and Android. Here’s the link to Apple’s app store. Here’s the link for Android.

Where did I go and what did I do. The idea is that you take a couple of pictures every day and add them to the app. So that after a period of time (a week, a year or whatever) you can produce a video of the series of pictures with each one presented for 1 or 2 seconds. This becomes a video diary.

So I’ve started taking pictures of the people and places that I interact with every day from the barista at Starbuck’s to Pastor Jacques at church. So every day I intend to take a couple of pictures and add them to the app. Then from time to time, I will then post on FB a video.

Categories: apps, Pictures
Tags: 1SE, Apps, Video Diary

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Deep Dive #3

March 27, 2017

So I have finished curating the last batch of slides from Harold. The box contained 10 slide trays and each slide tray had up to 100 slides. Some were full some were less than full but never less than 75 slides. The slides were taken from as early as 1974 and as recent as 1980. Most were circa 1977 and 1978. Much of the pictures were of wilderness. There were two trays from a trip to Alaska in 1974.

There were pictures from Harold and Mary’s visit after our first son Mike was born in 1980.

Here are some samples of the better stuff.

Mary Stanley, Paula and Joe

During the visit, I took Harold and Mary for a ride in my airplane. (I don’t know what caused the yellowing of the white areas of the slide.) I first got my private pilot’s license in 1974. By the time this picture was taken I had become IFR (Instrument) rated. Not long after this picture was taken the plane was sold and I stopped flying. Price of fuel was going up and I no longer had the time to spend flying. I once took my mother for a ride in the airplane. She was scared silly. (That wasn’t the word I wanted to use, but this is a family blog.) She couldn’t get on the ground soon enough.

New Dad with Baby Michael

This was the other reason that I stopped flying. In this picture, I think Mike was a couple of weeks old.

Harold in front of US Capitol

This is one of the rare pictures of my father-in-law Harold. Harold was always the one behind the camera. The trip to Washing ton was in 1977. In the load of about 1000 slides there are probably less than 10 pictures with Harold in the picture. We all miss Harold a lot. He was a great guy.

Mary K., Mimi-Mary, Uncle Jack, Aunt Donna (dec) and Maurice/James

This picture was taken in 1977 during one Harold & Mary’s many visits to New Orleans. Mary’s brother Jack lives outside of New Orleans. The family was together that day to tour some antebellum mansion. I don’t know how people could survive living during a summer in one of those mansions. So everyone was in the picture except for Harold.

This picture is the rear of our house at 90 Gray Street in Billerica, MA. We lived here from 1978-1984.

Mary and Paula circa 1978

We’re not quite sure of the provenance of this picture. Perhaps on the ferry to Nantucket or Martha’s Vineyeard or maybe a Boston Harbor cruise. I included it because it was a good picture of Paula and Mary.

That’s enough for now. I will be picking up another box to work on from the storage locker.

TTFN

Joe

Categories: Billerica, Boston, Pictures, Travel

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Deep Dive

March 8, 2017

I just finished scanning about 300 slides that I brought home from the storage locker. I finally got a small scanner for slides. Paula’s Dad, Harold took tons of slide over the course of his life time. Until now, I had no way of scanning, let alone viewing any of the slides.

This batch was in a shoe box. Some were loose, some were in boxes received from the film processor. Some of the slides were dated. Most weren’t. So we have slides from 1952-1954, 1968 and 1979. How the 1979 got in the box is beyond me.

The scanner writes the image to a SD card. Once I completed the scan, I copy the images to my computer. Once done, I throw out the original slide.

Many of the slides are from wilderness areas like Mt Lassen. There are some slides from a parade in the 50’s, maybe Long Beach.

Here are some samples: