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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 2, 2013 - 11:26pm PT
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Pre-or post-World War II?
If you got it … flaunt it!
[Edit] How's about anything with nostalgic appeal really, say up to late 60s.
From my father's archives, photographs taken by his adoptive parents before he was born:
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2013 - 11:30pm PT
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Older than Donini ! .... & Lauria!!!!
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martygarrison
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Washington DC
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Wow. I am sure my Dad has some from the late 50's but not from 31!
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2013 - 11:33pm PT
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Barely!
Happy Birthday Champ!
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2013 - 11:34pm PT
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Marty:
Late 50s could fly, that be sort of postwar right?
I say slap it down.
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John M
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We drove through the Wawona tunnel tree in the 60s. Is that old enough? :-) I need to ask my mother for pictures. She keeps saying that she will get them digitized. I think I will push her to do that this year.
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donini
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Ouray, Colorado
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Like the car. Hey....Lauria has me by ten years, i'm a mere puppy.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2013 - 11:47pm PT
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John:
Early 60s sure why not.
Maybe cap at the Tet Offensive, 1968?
Charge up your scanners kids, frankly anything that oozes nostalgia should roll nicely.
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Tarbuster
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 2, 2013 - 11:48pm PT
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Lauria has me by ten years, i'm a mere puppy
True Dat.
You holdin'?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Mouse be holdin'.
I'm posting two now, holdin' my good stuff.
These are easily found in Hank Johnston's Yosemite Memories.
The 1931 aerial view of Glacier Point shows the hotel and the terrifying sheer cliff where the Firefall fell.
The first airplane landed in Yosemite Valley in May 1919.
Flu, flew, Flue.
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Chicken Skinner
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Yosemite
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Love the dog bone photo corner holders. And of course, the images too. Thanks Roy.
Ken
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WBraun
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Hey that's illegal .... 36 CFR 2.17 ^^^^^
Those guys in the plane will have to see the judge and be banned from the park.
:-)
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Chicken Skinner
Trad climber
Yosemite
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Landing that thing was probably easier than taking off. Ballsy. Werner, since when did you follow the rules?
Ken
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weezy
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pile of bark for the firefall
these are all from a "yosemite" search on shorpy.com
if you love old photos, definitely check out the whole site.
http://www.shorpy.com/
edit: don't know what's up with the links. i think shorpy doesn't allow embedding photos. just do a yosemite search on the site shorpy.com
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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You want some old pictures of Yosemite?
This one fit's into your time range; it's 1952, somewhere near Tioga Pass. I'm on the picture's left; my siblings Philip and Barbara are next to me.
Not to old, you say? You wanted WAY OLD pictures! OK! I get it!
Sorry about the quality; I've inherited this album from my mother whose grandmother, Hattie Muth McCoy probably took the photos between 1900 and 1907. Since Galen Clark, my Great-Great-Great Uncle, appears in at least two of the pictures, they had to be taken before his death in 1910. (Rebecca McCoy was Galen Clark's wife.)
The photos were in such bad shape that I have been debating about scanning them or just tossing them in the trash! So, Tarbuster, your thread here helped me to decide. However, I didn't scan them; I just snapped pictures of the pictures, then reduced the size of each to something reasonable for computers (about 400 X 600 pixels each). The pages in the album and the attached photos are somewhat wrinkled, and there are some holes that time has eroded into the pages and pictures. A more diligent scanning process might improve them somewhat...
Interesting to see how they were hand-labeled with a real fountain pen...
Interesting how some of the old place-names have fallen into disuse. Anyone been to "Rocky Point," by that name?
Anyone seen a Chuck-Ah before? Even heard of one?
Anyone been up the Eagle Peak Trail?
More to come; it's hard keeping track of these; maybe I'm just getting old!
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Wow. It's like a poker game. I hope nobody wins this one.
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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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Yes, Better! I keep forgetting!
Ahh, summer in the Merced River, not in Merced!
And just where did the trail to Clouds' Rest go?
The left photo above shows my grandmother standing on the rock in the river.
Seems like Agassiz Column, above, is near the 4-Mile Trail, but it's not in Roper's Green Guide. Anyone know about its climbing history?
The above left pic looks like a smiling face. the one on the right has my grandmother standing like a speck on the overhanging rock.
Pretty cool seeing Galen Clark in my family's photo album!
I think the caption refers to the trees, not the men... LOL!
No wonder that old tree fell over!
Anyone seen that "Stable Tree?" Looks like a water trough in there!
And last, but not the least is...
Actually, there is also a newspaper (origin unknown) clipping in the album which is quite interesting:
That's all Folks!
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