"Carlsbad Caverns"
This is an outdoor presentation that gives one the geology of the caverns. Located in New Mexico. June 1967.
Scanned from a Kodachrome transparency.
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"Carlsbad Caverns"
This is an outdoor presentation that gives one the geology of the caverns. Located in New Mexico. June 1967.
Scanned from a Kodachrome transparency.
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This is what I remember mid 1960s adults looking like.
"Grand Canyon National Park"
Located in Arizona. June 1967. Digitally transferred from a Kodachrome transparency.
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In the Early 1980's, my brother worked as an auto mechanic at Parrish Caine in Wilmington, North Carolina. The owner would buy abandoned cars at auctions in South Carolina, and bring them to the shop to fix them for resale.
One such car had several trays of Kodachrome slides
in its trunk. (1/2)
"Sleeping Beauty Castle"
Located in Fantasyland at Disneyland Park. June 1967. Inspired by Neuschwanstein castle in Bavaria.
Digitally scanned from a Kodachrome transparency.
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"Hollywood Bowl"
The Hollywood Bowl is an amphitheater in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. June 1967.
Kodachrome transparency, scanned.
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In the Early 1980's, my brother worked as an auto mechanic at Parrish Caine in Wilmington, North Carolina. The owner would buy abandoned cars at auctions in South Carolina, and bring them to the shop to fix them for resale.
One such car had several trays of Kodachrome slides
in its trunk. (1/2)
"New Orleans Square"
New Orleans Square in Disneyland Park, Anaheim, California. The people look like how I remember people looking from my childhood. June 1967,
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"Grizzly Giant"
The 2,700 year old Grizzly Giant, the largest sequoia in the Mariposa Grove, located in California's Yosemite National Park. June 1967.
Kodachrome slide, scanned.
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"Victoria"
The Empress Hotel and inner harbor in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The #MysteryPhotographer shot this in October, 1968.
Kodachrome slide, scanned to digital.
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"Roll On, Columbia Roll On"
The #MysteryPhotographer shot this photo in the 1950s (guessing from the cardboard sleave). Possibly taken near Wallula Gap.
Scanned from Kodachrome transparency.
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"Tomorrowland, Yesterday"
Walt Disney’s Tomorrowland debuted in 1967, was one of his last major projects at Disneyland. As Walt would put it, “Tomorrow is a heck of thing to keep up with.”
June 1967. 1/x
Kodachrome slide, scanned.
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In the Early 1980's, my brother worked as an auto mechanic at Parrish Caine in Wilmington, North Carolina. The owner would buy abandoned cars at auctions in South Carolina, and bring them to the shop to fix them for resale.
One such car had several trays of Kodachrome slides
in its trunk. (1/2)
throwback to that one time at Carlsbad Caverns (New Mexico)
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"Fog, Sea, and Sky Vista"
The #Mysteryphotographer took this wonderful undated photo in the 1950s to 1960s. There is land (or a mirage?) on the horizon. Is this British Columbia, Canada?
Scanned from a Kodachrome transparency.
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"Curtain Call in San Francisco, 1981"
I remember shooting one this as I prowled the city at night, with camera in hand. Located at 456 Geary.
Shot on Kodachrome transparency slide, and digitally scanned.
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"Yellowstone Canyon"
The Mystery Photographer shot this sometime in the early to mid 1950s, in the geological hot spot, Yellowstone National Park.
Kodachrome slide, scanned.
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In the Early 1980's, my brother worked as an auto mechanic at Parrish Caine in Wilmington, North Carolina. The owner would buy abandoned cars at auctions in South Carolina, and bring them to the shop to fix them for resale.
One such car had several trays of Kodachrome slides
in its trunk. (1/2)
"Creole Cafe"
The Creole Cafe (now Cafe Orleans) in New Orleans Square, Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California. June 1967.
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"Curtain Call in San Francisco, 1981"
A better scan of the same photo.👀
I remember shooting one this as I prowled the city at night, with camera in hand. Located at 456 Geary. Shot on Kodachrome transparency slide, and digitally scanned.
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"Rainbow Over Niagara Falls"
October, 1957.
Kodachrome slide, scanned.
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"It's a Golden Gate Christmas"
I shot this on one of the side streets off Castro on a trip to San Francisco in 1982.
Kodachrome transparency, scanned to digital format.
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"Chateau Lake Louise"
The #MysteryPhotographer shot this photo in October, 1968. The image was severely degraded. I think green fungus was growing on it, and the color was very faded. It took five hours of work to restore.
Scanned from Kodachrome transparency.
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"This Bus Could Take You to Bermuda Benidorm or Bournemouth"😎
I took this photo in Aylesbury (UK) Market Square, in May, 1989.
Scanned from Kodachrome transparency.
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"Niagara Falls"
Who is in this photo, taken in the city of Niagara Falls, in Ontario, Canada? Is it his wife, or someone he met, or a stranger? She looks French Canadian, to me.
October, 1957.
Kodachrome slide, scanned.
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"Above the American Falls"
The Mystery Photographer visited Niagara Falls in October, 1957. This photo reminds me of a 1957 calendar page for October.
Kodachrome slide, scanned.
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My latest Geology of the National Parks Through Pictures is looking at Carlsbad Caverns NP, which we visited 20 years ago. The caverns formed in an ancient (~276 million year old) Permian Reef that formed on the edge of the Delaware Sea.
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Going down the Rockies, I feel like Montana = grizzly, Wyoming = pronghorn, Colorado = bighorn sheep, New Mexico = bat (for Carlsbad Caverns)