Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
35 years ago I was five years old and snapping my first photos with this plasticky boxy job with flash cubes. I think the photos are still at my parents's house somewhere. other than that I was pretty much cooling at the playground most of the time... :) 2011/4/29 Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com: Sorry Dave, I glossed over the title and focused on 30 years ago, not 35! It would be a year or so before I got my first 35mm camera, a Pentax ME. Regards, Bob S. On Thursday, April 28, 2011, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: Dave, We were home with a 2 week old baby, our second son Dave. I was happily snapping pictures and suffering sleep deprivation. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com wrote: Ok. You asked for it ;-) I was probably was playing the Beatles way too loud. When I wasn't bothering my parents with loud music, I was out cycling looking for chicks with my labrador. About two months later, I did score. More than enough said ;-) -- MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ 2011/3/18 David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
On 28 Apr 2011 15:55:59 -0700 Stan Halpin wrote: Have you come to an answer yet? stan I am still being asked that same question by my friends who retired from the Corps. I still kick myself for not following up on that offer from the AP. I guess the answer was and still is security for my family. k -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
I was an aircraft electrician in an Assault Helicopter Company, just returned from Basic AIT and about to attend my first Annual Training with the National Guard at Ft. Rucker Alabama. After AT, I got a job with a company that installed serviced fire alarm systems. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
Ok. You asked for it ;-) I was probably was playing the Beatles way too loud. When I wasn't bothering my parents with loud music, I was out cycling looking for chicks with my labrador. About two months later, I did score. More than enough said ;-) -- MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ 2011/3/18 David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
Dave, We were home with a 2 week old baby, our second son Dave. I was happily snapping pictures and suffering sleep deprivation. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com wrote: Ok. You asked for it ;-) I was probably was playing the Beatles way too loud. When I wasn't bothering my parents with loud music, I was out cycling looking for chicks with my labrador. About two months later, I did score. More than enough said ;-) -- MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ 2011/3/18 David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
35 years ago I was just starting in this job, and wondering why the hell I had left my photojournalism and Marine Corps careers. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
On Apr 28, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Keith Mosier wrote: 35 years ago I was just starting in this job, and wondering why the hell I had left my photojournalism and Marine Corps careers. Have you come to an answer yet? stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
Hmm. 35years ago, I'd walked out of college the first time, was working as a mechanic building engines, sold my Nikon F and bought an Olympus OM-1, and went on a motorcycle trip to Mexico in the cold of New York's January... On Thursday, April 28, 2011, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: Dave, We were home with a 2 week old baby, our second son Dave. I was happily snapping pictures and suffering sleep deprivation. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com wrote: Ok. You asked for it ;-) I was probably was playing the Beatles way too loud. When I wasn't bothering my parents with loud music, I was out cycling looking for chicks with my labrador. About two months later, I did score. More than enough said ;-) -- MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ 2011/3/18 David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
Sorry Dave, I glossed over the title and focused on 30 years ago, not 35! It would be a year or so before I got my first 35mm camera, a Pentax ME. Regards, Bob S. On Thursday, April 28, 2011, Bob Sullivan rf.sulli...@gmail.com wrote: Dave, We were home with a 2 week old baby, our second son Dave. I was happily snapping pictures and suffering sleep deprivation. Regards, Bob S. On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Tim Øsleby maritim...@gmail.com wrote: Ok. You asked for it ;-) I was probably was playing the Beatles way too loud. When I wasn't bothering my parents with loud music, I was out cycling looking for chicks with my labrador. About two months later, I did score. More than enough said ;-) -- MaritimTim http://maritimtim.blogspot.com/ 2011/3/18 David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
From: Collin Brendemuehl 35 years ago ... I remember that's when this thread started. or something like that. Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl http://kerygmainstitute.org Is there some standard internet short-hand for groan laugh at the same time? 8-D -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
On Mar 18, 2011, at 06:26 , David J Brooks wrote: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? I wasn't doing a lot of shooting that year, but I did have my black Spotmatic, half a dozen lenses for it, fisheye to 300mm, a Pen FT with four lenses, and a Pen S that I kept in the car. As explained in the rest of this message, I couldn't take a camera anywhere near work, and hardly ever went on a vacation. what I do have is mostly half-frame BW of the pool-parties at our house. Color full frame was reserved for the race track and pictures of our Porsches at Summit Point Raceway in W. Virginia. In March of 1976, I was spending 5 days a week in what was called The Colony in basement office space in Arlington Virginia while various agencies did everything they could to find some dirt on me. Took them ten and a half months before they could pronounce me worthy of a clearance high enough to work on a special project. Probably took that long because of the years I spent in the Haight-Ashbury from 1966~1972 while attending college, following four years in the Navy. By late October I was cleared and read into the project, which turned out to be working at the business end of a bank of 5 watt laser powered used to lay optical data one line at a time being downlinked from a satellite about the size of the Hubble in low earth orbit, but pointing down instead of up. The whole job, as over the next ten years I filled almost every position available, consisted of keeping at least four of these laser image reconstructors (LIRs) ready at all times, loading and downloading the 500 to 1000 feet of film that they output every 45 to 90 minutes, depending on if two birds were imaging, or just one. The film, 9 the first few years, 5 later on as resolution and accuracy ramped up, was run through one of six EK made stainless steel monster 100 FPM processors that were 32 feet long, 10 feet high, and from 2 feet at the stop, fix and wash to 12 feet deep at the dry box. The leader rolls were 1000 feet as well. From there a set of transparent positives were made, then a set of dupe negs from them, on 100 FPM drum contact printers. After those were processed, they were cut, packaged and addressed to be sent all over the world to U.S. intelligence agencies. Our allies were sent either 70mm magnetic tapes of the original downlinked data, but dumb'd down by from 1 to 7 levels of resolution.For the highest resolution, the data was encoded and transmitted back up to a satellite or two and back down to special portable or fixed sites. Google KH-11, Talent, Keyhole, and Itaclese. Spelling may be wrong on that last one, as my laser-engraved walnut commemorative pencil holder is still packed, somewhere. We received from 3 to 5 loaded plain white unmarked semi-trucks a week from various supply depots around the country who had received shipments from Kodak, either trucked in or in some cases flown in for re-delivery to our site. Even our paychecks were cut in Texas and flown in using varying routes. All film, chemicals, and spare parts were delivered this way. All our effluent had to be pristine so our work there was not detectable. It was passed through many layers of filtration, dilution, and a day in our 24 foot diameter rotating biological contactor which was inhabited by bugs that had an appetite for what we wanted to disappear. That was my more than full-time job for 11 years, until I pissed off my supervisor's supervisor one too many times by correcting him when he uttered something incorrect that would have hurt our timeline. It had to be done… :-) P.S. - Don't mention a word of this to anyone! But do read The Falcon and the Snowman if you've time. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com THE SENILITY PRAYER : Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and The eyesight to tell the difference. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing. Paul On Mar 22, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Joseph McAllister wrote: I wasn't doing a lot of shooting that year, but I did have my black Spotmatic, half a dozen lenses for it, fisheye to 300mm, a Pen FT with four lenses, and a Pen S that I kept in the car. As explained in the rest of this message, I couldn't take a camera anywhere near work, and hardly ever went on a vacation. what I do have is mostly half-frame BW of the pool-parties at our house. Color full frame was reserved for the race track and pictures of our Porsches at Summit Point Raceway in W. Virginia. In March of 1976, I was spending 5 days a week in what was called The Colony in basement office space in Arlington Virginia while various agencies did everything they could to find some dirt on me. Took them ten and a half months before they could pronounce me worthy of a clearance high enough to work on a special project. Probably took that long because of the years I spent in the Haight-Ashbury from 1966~1972 while attending college, following four years in the Navy. By late October I was cleared and read into the project, which turned out to be working at the business end of a bank of 5 watt laser powered used to lay optical data one line at a time being downlinked from a satellite about the size of the Hubble in low earth orbit, but pointing down instead of up. The whole job, as over the next ten years I filled almost every position available, consisted of keeping at least four of these laser image reconstructors (LIRs) ready at all times, loading and downloading the 500 to 1000 feet of film that they output every 45 to 90 minutes, depending on if two birds were imaging, or just one. The film, 9 the first few years, 5 later on as resolution and accuracy ramped up, was run through one of six EK made stainless steel monster 100 FPM processors that were 32 feet long, 10 feet high, and from 2 feet at the stop, fix and wash to 12 feet deep at the dry box. The leader rolls were 1000 feet as well. From there a set of transparent positives were made, then a set of dupe negs from them, on 100 FPM drum contact printers. After those were processed, they were cut, packaged and addressed to be sent all over the world to U.S. intelligence agencies. Our allies were sent either 70mm magnetic tapes of the original downlinked data, but dumb'd down by from 1 to 7 levels of resolution.For the highest resolution, the data was encoded and transmitted back up to a satellite or two and back down to special portable or fixed sites. Google KH-11, Talent, Keyhole, and Itaclese. Spelling may be wrong on that last one, as my laser-engraved walnut commemorative pencil holder is still packed, somewhere. We received from 3 to 5 loaded plain white unmarked semi-trucks a week from various supply depots around the country who had received shipments from Kodak, either trucked in or in some cases flown in for re-delivery to our site. Even our paychecks were cut in Texas and flown in using varying routes. All film, chemicals, and spare parts were delivered this way. All our effluent had to be pristine so our work there was not detectable. It was passed through many layers of filtration, dilution, and a day in our 24 foot diameter rotating biological contactor which was inhabited by bugs that had an appetite for what we wanted to disappear. That was my more than full-time job for 11 years, until I pissed off my supervisor's supervisor one too many times by correcting him when he uttered something incorrect that would have hurt our timeline. It had to be done… :-) P.S. - Don't mention a word of this to anyone! But do read The Falcon and the Snowman if you've time. Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com THE SENILITY PRAYER : Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and The eyesight to tell the difference. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
From: Ann Sanfedele John Sessoms wrote: From: John Sessoms 26 in 1976. Active Army first half of the year. Working construction the second half. Kodak 110 Polaroid 600. Oh ... I was also married and had just bought this house. LOL - some afterthought! perhaps not still with that wife??? ann She ran off with another man after about 5 years. Took me another 10 to get a divorce pay off all the bills she left behind, but I did manage to hang on to the house through the process ... even managed to pay the mortgage off early. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
35 years ago ... I remember that's when this thread started. or something like that. Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl http://kerygmainstitute.org He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
John Sessoms wrote: From: Ann Sanfedele John Sessoms wrote: From: John Sessoms 26 in 1976. Active Army first half of the year. Working construction the second half. Kodak 110 Polaroid 600. Oh ... I was also married and had just bought this house. LOL - some afterthought! perhaps not still with that wife??? ann She ran off with another man after about 5 years. Took me another 10 to get a divorce pay off all the bills she left behind, but I did manage to hang on to the house through the process ... even managed to pay the mortgage off early. Oh dear - yes, well, no wonder the order of mention! ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: Oh, and I forgot the photographic bit... I was majoring in sdrr and left-wing politics, the latter mostly in the capacity of working on the student paper (the University of Guelph Ontarion) for which we shot a few rolls of Tri-X every week and processed it in a sweltering-hot darkroom. It was primitive but the enlarger was not terrible. This happened mostly late at night and often under the influence. Ah, youth. -T I lived in Kitchener at that time. One of my best friends was an Aggie. Went to a few football games there with him. I think we may have had a few beers, because I don't remember much after the games. Did you guys have a place called the Bombshelter? Or was that UW? ;-) cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 9:44 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: When Kaufman went under, someone bought the rights to that line. Right now they're the hottest winter boot fashion around, to be seen adorning the feet of all sorts of young hotties and hipsters. I KNEW i was still a hotty and a hipster./:-) You were ahead of your time, is all... ;-) cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
16 in 1976. Just finishing junior year in high school having made the cut in the school paper as a photographer (using a Canon Datematic). Summer would be spent building up a darkroom and learning to process my own BW film. My dad would finally allow me to use the Spotmatic by the end of the year. On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:26 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Bong Manayon http://www.bong.uni.cc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
16 in 1976. I was studying electrotechnics at technical institute in Ravenna. Not yet interested in photogaphy at the time, I was rather caught by astronomy (which would quickly drive me towards photography), by motor races and by girls (the latter being the field of my lesser success, by far). All my (scarce) money at the time was put into building and improving my own telescope: a 200mm-diameter, 1500mm-focal length portable Newtonian reflector, then to be followed by a much more refined 250mm-diameter, 1250/5000mm-focal length Newton-Cassegrain telescope in a purposedly-built observatory. At that later time (1982-1983), I was the proud owner of both an MX and an ME Super, dealing with planetary photography around 30,000mm-equivalent focal length, obtained by a Cassegrain configuration plus eyepiece projection on film plane. Cheers, -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:26 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada So, 1976. I finished my PhD in 1970, so by spring of '76 I was 4 years into my second job, 3 years into my second marriage, and one year or so into my rock climbing and mountaineering phase. I had a Nikkormat and a couple of lenses, had built a darkroom in a walk-in closet in my condo apartment where I occasionally developed/printed BW, but most of my now-and-then photography was in slides. At about that time I was also doing wood working; the desk at which I sit I built a few months ago, re-purposing oak that I had first used for a couch back then. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
26 in 1976. Active Army first half of the year. Working construction the second half. Kodak 110 Polaroid 600. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
From: John Sessoms 26 in 1976. Active Army first half of the year. Working construction the second half. Kodak 110 Polaroid 600. Oh ... I was also married and had just bought this house. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
John Sessoms wrote: From: John Sessoms 26 in 1976. Active Army first half of the year. Working construction the second half. Kodak 110 Polaroid 600. Oh ... I was also married and had just bought this house. LOL - some afterthought! perhaps not still with that wife??? ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:26 -0400, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. 1976? Planning sewage treatment plants for the Sydney Water Board and shooting with a Ricoh XR2 - a short-lived divergence from Pentax but I couldn't afford a MX and the ME and K1000 were too limiting). Cheers Brian ++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
35 years ago I was eating, sleeping, probably making lots of noise and filing a nappy a few times a day. Unless I die young, 35 years from now I'll probably be doing all of that again. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
RE: OT Thirty Five years ago.
From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of David Mann 35 years ago I was eating, sleeping, probably making lots of noise and filing a nappy a few times a day. Unless I die young, 35 years from now I'll probably be doing all of that again. why wait? http://www.dailydiapers.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 10:46 AM, frank theriault knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:26 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: snip What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? snip Hmmm... Among other things, Kaufman made Sorel winter boots - at that time they were very unfashionable snowmobile and work boots for subzero temps. I bet Dave wore them whilst surveying up north! I sure did. When Kaufman went under, someone bought the rights to that line. Right now they're the hottest winter boot fashion around, to be seen adorning the feet of all sorts of young hotties and hipsters. I KNEW i was still a hotty and a hipster./:-) Dave cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: OT Thirty Five years ago.
Thanks for reminding me J.C.O.. Patricia, my soon to be wife and I had gone and watched the Washington D.C. Bicentennial Fireworks from the top of the hill in Arlington National Cemetery. A fantastic evening, culminating in a party during which the Colonel in charge of The Colony asked my bride to be to serve as his assistant. Which ultimately allowed her to leave home and move to Frederickburg, then marry me later that same year! On Mar 18, 2011, at 11:43 , J.C. O'Connell wrote: All I remember about '76 was going to see a great July 4 fireworks display at Ft Lauderdale beach for the bicentennial celebration. They had barges achored out on the water launching them off. Joseph McAllister Lots of gear, not much time http://gallery.me.com/jomac -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 18/3/11, David J Brooks, discombobulated, unleashed: What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? I was 16 and living in the south bay area, California. I was a sophomore at Lynbrook High School and deeply in love with a Junior who knew not one jot of my existence. A bunch of us hung out in the back of a pick-up truck and wherever it went, we went. There was about 8 or 9 of us. In the summer they all came to see me off at the airport when my family repatriated. I'm still in touch with some of them. -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche -- http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Mar 18, 2011, at 6:26 AM, David J Brooks wrote: What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Thinking about this question made me feel old. Some of the answers made me feel young, some made me feel even older. A few years previously we had moved from 2-3 miles from where it turns out a kid named Steve Cottrell was raising ruckus, to the place I'm currently buying from my mom, near Santa Cruz. A couple of people mentioned VW bugs, It was about this time of year that I got my learner's permit, and Dad and I would occasionally head to the parking lot at the school where I'd try to learn to drive a clutch, in a VW Thing. I was a sophomore in high school, and was active in the Brotherhood of Natural Philosophers, Chemistry and Physics Affiliated, and would hang out at the house of the club advisor, on P.Q. Boomer, who for a couple decades had let the kids come up to his place, have water fights, build a castle, towers and a pipe organ that I was eventually involved in converting from electro-mechanical operation to pure tracker action. http://home.comcast.net/~pqboom/tour/tour.html Photographically, I was spending a fair chunk of time in Dad's and my darkroom. My photographic kit consisted of a Minolta SRT-101 with a 58/1.4 lens, a 2x teleconverter and a polarizer. I'd occasionally borrow my dads Spotty II. I didn't like his camera as much as mine, since mine could meter without stopping down the lens. I did, however, like his Vivitar Series I, 70-210. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:26 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: snip What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? snip Hmmm... At this time in 1976 I would have been working in accounts receivable for (the now long since closed down) Kaufman Footwear in Kitchener, Ontario. It was my year off between high school and university; by the next year I had embarked on a rather longish post-secondary career (long, not due to lots of degrees, but due to lots of - e - diversions). Among other things, Kaufman made Sorel winter boots - at that time they were very unfashionable snowmobile and work boots for subzero temps. I bet Dave wore them whilst surveying up north! When Kaufman went under, someone bought the rights to that line. Right now they're the hottest winter boot fashion around, to be seen adorning the feet of all sorts of young hotties and hipsters. Of course they're made in China now, and they don't say Sorels by Kaufman like they used to, they're just Sorels. Actually, now that I think of it, I worked in the Kaufman factory as a summer job when I was at university and was on the Sorel assembly line. Worst job I ever did, grinding down the soles so they'd be flush with the upper. Got rubber bits all over me and in my clothing. Yuck! But that was later. 35 years ago it was in the office, for my year after high school. Pretty much didn't take any pix to speak of, except a few forays to Mosport Raceway for CanAms and F1 races with my trusty Praktica SLR. cheers, frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I remember my wife and our two dogs watching those firewarks on the Mall from our den in Pt. Mugu and 6:00 PM local time while it was still bright daylight outside! Walt On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:53 AM, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote: Thanks for reminding me J.C.O.. Patricia, my soon to be wife and I had gone and watched the Washington D.C. Bicentennial Fireworks from the top of the hill in Arlington National Cemetery. A fantastic evening, culminating in a party during which the Colonel in charge of The Colony asked my bride to be to serve as his assistant. Which ultimately allowed her to leave home and move to Frederickburg, then marry me later that same year! On Mar 18, 2011, at 11:43 , J.C. O'Connell wrote: All I remember about '76 was going to see a great July 4 fireworks display at Ft Lauderdale beach for the bicentennial celebration. They had barges achored out on the water launching them off. Joseph McAllister Lots of gear, not much time http://gallery.me.com/jomac -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Oh, and I forgot the photographic bit... I was majoring in sdrr and left-wing politics, the latter mostly in the capacity of working on the student paper (the University of Guelph Ontarion) for which we shot a few rolls of Tri-X every week and processed it in a sweltering-hot darkroom. It was primitive but the enlarger was not terrible. This happened mostly late at night and often under the influence. Ah, youth. -T On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote: Thanks for reminding me J.C.O.. Patricia, my soon to be wife and I had gone and watched the Washington D.C. Bicentennial Fireworks from the top of the hill in Arlington National Cemetery. A fantastic evening, culminating in a party during which the Colonel in charge of The Colony asked my bride to be to serve as his assistant. Which ultimately allowed her to leave home and move to Frederickburg, then marry me later that same year! On Mar 18, 2011, at 11:43 , J.C. O'Connell wrote: All I remember about '76 was going to see a great July 4 fireworks display at Ft Lauderdale beach for the bicentennial celebration. They had barges achored out on the water launching them off. Joseph McAllister Lots of gear, not much time http://gallery.me.com/jomac -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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In February 1976 I was hit by a car while riding my 10-speed bike home from my part time job at the Miracle Food Mart. I was in my first year the the University of Western Ontario, and because of the accident was forced to withdraw for that term. I had a badly broken leg and was in a cast and crutches for the next nine months. But...every cloud has a silver lining...as I discovered that a cast and crutches were girl magnets! Woo-hoo! My male friends with fully functional legs could not believe the way the babes flocked to me! Alas, eventually I had to return to two-legged transport and things returned to normal. Oh well. Photography was done with my father's Instamatic camera. However, I did sue the guy who ran me over and with the settlement bought my first SLR: a Miranda dx-3. At 10:28 AM -0700 3/19/11, Tim Bray wrote: Oh, and I forgot the photographic bit... I was majoring in sdrr and left-wing politics, the latter mostly in the capacity of working on the student paper (the University of Guelph Ontarion) for which we shot a few rolls of Tri-X every week and processed it in a sweltering-hot darkroom. It was primitive but the enlarger was not terrible. This happened mostly late at night and often under the influence. Ah, youth. -T On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Joseph McAllister pentax...@mac.com wrote: Thanks for reminding me J.C.O.. Patricia, my soon to be wife and I had gone and watched the Washington D.C. Bicentennial Fireworks from the top of the hill in Arlington National Cemetery. A fantastic evening, culminating in a party during which the Colonel in charge of The Colony asked my bride to be to serve as his assistant. Which ultimately allowed her to leave home and move to Frederickburg, then marry me later that same year! -- Steve Sharpe d...@eastlink.ca http://earth.delith.com/photo_gallery.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Seems a long way from here... 35 years ago I had just started working for an engineering company in the Midlands in England. Just bought a house in a pleasant village about 20 miles from work, settled my 15-year old daughter and 6-year old son into their new schools, and loved the environment. Played badminton in the village hall once a week, and walked the dog every Sunday: once for five miles in fresh snow and before that I didn't know how good that could be! Owned a crap car, a 1967 Ford Escort which had definitely seen better days, but at least it kept going. Photographically, I was still shell-shocked at the theft of my Pentax kit from my car, complete with photos of a concert by Ella Fitzgerald and the Count Basie band at London's Festival Hall the year before. I had filled the gap with a Fujica st605n (or 705n), which was good and took K-mount lens. I'd also joined a photo club locally, and was having a great time once a month shooting real live girls in various stages of undress! One of them eventually went on to become a Page 3 girl, so the quality (of the girls, not necessarily my photos) was pretty high. Happy days John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of David J Brooks Sent: Friday, 18 March 2011 11:27 PM To: Pentax Discuss Subject: OT Thirty Five years ago. Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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In 1976 we were living in Lewisburg, WV, where I was an agent for Piedmont Airlines. Our daughter was 3 years old and our son was 2 years away from being born. Things were much simpler back then Bill -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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David asks: What were you doing 35 years ago? Well, 35 years ago, I was really discovering photography for the first time. Not with a camera, but by being invited to help out in the BW darkroom of my High School's yearbook (annual) staff, which was all-students - led by a faculty advisor. They had a Spotmatic and it was my first experience with an SLR. I remember taking some really disappointing stuff at some volleyball games. Honestly, I don't remember much of anything decent that I produced with the camera, but I was bitten by the darkroom bug and set up my own at home in a closet under our basement stairs. I also naturally fell in with the photography nerds at school. One kid was determined to get an Olympus OM-1 system and eventually did. I remember helping him do his first Cibachromes in his home darkroom, which was my first exposure to color darkroom. I was subscribed to Popular Photography and Peterson's Photographic and even Camera 35 for a year or so. The nearest real photo store was Snow's Camera in Fremont, NE, about 35 miles away and every time I went there I had to wander around and drool, though mostly I left only with darkroom chemistry or a Peterson's compilation book. When I graduated High School, I took my gift money and purchased a Canon AE-1, which was a decent camera in 1977. It wasn't long after that, that the father-in-law of a cousin had a fatal heart attack and I inherited his wedding cameras, a pair of Mamiya C33s. That led to working for the local portrait studio, starting with negative retouching (now there's something nobody misses) and eventually all of his darkroom work (BW and color) doing prints in a basket processor. Ah heck... I'll stop now. Thanks for indulging the little trip down memory lane. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Let's see - that would be 1976...I was teaching students how to fly airplanes in the Aeronautical Technology department of Gateway Technical College in southeast Wisconsin -p On 3/18/2011 8:26 AM, David J Brooks wrote: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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That was 1976, so it was the last year I wrenched a funny car. At this time of year, we had just built a second Corvette fflopper, and were getting ready for its first event at the old dragstrip near Detroit. Our shop was on 67th and Pulaski in Chicago, and it was a nice setup: a 1500 square foot warehouse surrounded by ten foot fencing with razor wire on top. The Corvette was hard to drive because it didn't create a lot of downforce, but it was sleek, and we set some mph records. A 237 mph clocking at NY National was our best. In those screaming dragstrip commercials that used to play on the radio, it was billed as the world's fastest Corvette, which it may well have been at the time, albeit with a nitro-burning supercharged Chrysler engine. On weekdays, I worked on the race car primarily at night, and taught school during the day at Percy Julian High on 103rd and Vincennes in Chicago. I had a couple of Honors English 3 classes, a humanities class, and a job program that I administered. My kids were great. Ninety percent young women in the Honors English classes; a hundred percent boys in the job program. It wasn't easy keeping the ladies quiet, but they were good students, and we made a lot of progress. I was just getting my feet wet writing for car magazines and shooting some races. I started shooting my own photos after complaining about how little I was paid to write. The editor told me he had to save some of the money for the photographer. I can do that, I said. I had tinkered with cameras for many years, so I had some hint of how to take decent photos and eventually figured it out. I knew the drag racing thing couldn't go on forever, given my other responsibilities, so the journalism and photography gave me a way to stay close to the car biz. By 1980, I would quit teaching, move to NY and become a full-time writer and photographer. In March of '76, lived with my wife and infant son in a Chicago bungalow at 10637 S. Bell, in Chicago's Beverly Hills neighborhood. I had purchased that house for $20,000 in 1972. In the fall of '76 I sold the bungalow for 33K and bought a 1920s colonial with a spanish tile roof and copper gutters for 43 K. It was less than a mile south of the bungalow in an old Chicago neighborhood called Morgan Park. There were some tough times that year. The race car went backwards into the guard rail at 200 mph in July, and, while the driver suffered only a concussion and a lot of bruises, our operation never recovered from the financial hit. My second born, a daughter, was born with pyloricstinosis in December and nearly died before an 86 year old pediatrician figured out what was wrong. She survived and now has a daughter named Grace. A few rough spots, but all things considered, 1976 was a good year. Hadn't thought about any of this in many moons. It's good to reflect. Paul On Mar 18, 2011, at 9:26 AM, David J Brooks wrote: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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In '76, I was living and working in Racine, Wisconsin, the town Paul Sorenson was teaching in. We had bought a house and I had bought my first 35mm camera, the Pentax ME. Regards, Bob S. On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Paul Sorenson allarou...@earthlink.net wrote: Let's see - that would be 1976...I was teaching students how to fly airplanes in the Aeronautical Technology department of Gateway Technical College in southeast Wisconsin -p On 3/18/2011 8:26 AM, David J Brooks wrote: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:26:38 -0400 From: David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com To: Pentax Discuss pdml@pdml.net Subject: OT Thirty Five years ago. Message-ID: aanlktikfjswpzgg2mhgr684ufqh5plvc024vmlhc8...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave Thirty-five years ago was Spring of 1976. I was living in Omaha, on the north side (16 Lake), working for World Impact, an inner-city ministry. It was an enlightening experience and a chance to serve. Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl http://kerygmainstitute.org He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:26 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? I spent most of '76 in my mother's uterus, which was warm but a bit cramped, especially toward the end. The last three months of the year were nice. I think I had yellow pajamas and got to ride around in an orange VW Super Beetle. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 19 March 2011 02:35, Matthew Hunt m...@pobox.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:26 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? I spent most of '76 in my mother's uterus, which was warm but a bit cramped, especially toward the end. The last three months of the year were nice. I think I had yellow pajamas and got to ride around in an orange VW Super Beetle. I was in year 5 in primary school and we drove around in a white '72 Beetle, the 15,000,090th off the line. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I was a senior in high school working in my uncle's drugstore. And dating my wife. On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:26 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Living in naval housing in Virginia Beach, setting fire to the shrubs while playing with matches, painting picnic tables bright purple with some discarded paint I'd stumbled upon, and generally causing about as much trouble as a seven-year-old can cause. -- Walt On 3/18/2011 8:26 AM, David J Brooks wrote: What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:26:38AM -0400, David J Brooks wrote: What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? I was setting out on the path I've been following since then; 1976 was when I bought my first K-mount; the MX that can still be found languishing in my cupboard. I was also firmly established with my girlfriend of the time, although I wouldn't actually marry her for another two years. She's still around, too. On the work front, I was working for Digital Equipment Corp. (on DecSystem-10 Algol) in Reading. DEC would eventually relocate me to the USA (via New Zealand), but that, too, was a couple of years in the future. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:49 PM, John Francis jo...@panix.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:26:38AM -0400, David J Brooks wrote: What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? I should add, that 1976 was another busy out of town year. Besides doing TransCanada Pipe ;line work, i also spent the summer in Thunder Bay, Northern Ontario doing base line photo mapping for the newly created town from the remains of Fort McWilliams and Port Arther(my favorite of the two). I was also into year 3 of shooting my SP500 Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:05 PM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: of Fort McWilliams and Port Arther(my favorite of the two). I was also into year 3 of shooting my SP500 Dave Sorry that should be Fort William and Port Arthur. Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 3/18/2011 3:26 PM, David J Brooks wrote: What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? I was spending my time being 4 years old. I don't remember exactly if it was when I was 4 or 5 that my parents took me for the first time from Moscow to Kiev in overnight train... But I think it was in September. Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I was in my second year of medical school in Rochester, NY, and working two evenings a week and one weekend a month answering the phone at a large group medical practice on the north end of the city. My then-girlfriend, now-wife was in her senior year at the U of R. All of my other recreational interests (particularly choral singing and photography) were in suspended animation. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Fri, 3/18/11, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: From: David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com Subject: OT Thirty Five years ago. To: Pentax Discuss pdml@pdml.net Date: Friday, March 18, 2011, 9:26 AM Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:49:32 -0400 From: John Francis jo...@panix.com To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT Thirty Five years ago. Message-ID: 20110318164932.ga...@panix.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:26:38AM -0400, David J Brooks wrote: What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? I was setting out on the path I've been following since then; 1976 was when I bought my first K-mount; the MX that can still be found languishing in my cupboard. I was also firmly established with my girlfriend of the time, although I wouldn't actually marry her for another two years. She's still around, too. On the work front, I was working for Digital Equipment Corp. (on DecSystem-10 Algol) in Reading. DEC would eventually relocate me to the USA (via New Zealand), but that, too, was a couple of years in the future. Well, John, at least you weren't working on a Datapoint. Sincerely, Collin Brendemuehl http://kerygmainstitute.org He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 11-03-18 9:26 AM, David J Brooks wrote: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave I was in my second of three semesters at college taking Electronics Technology. I was then doing a co-op term at Barringer Research in Toronto, building prototype analog circuitry (lots of precision op-amps) for a proton precession magnetometer used in aerial mapping for finding oil. My soundtrack was progressive rock and I dismissively eschewed all else. I was about 2 years away from meeting my wife, who would introduce me to Pentax (I had a lowly Praktica LTL at the time). She had a pre-Spotmatic, may it rest in piece. -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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All I remember about '76 was going to see a great July 4 fireworks display at Ft Lauderdale beach for the bicentennial celebration. They had barges achored out on the water launching them off. -- J.C. O'Connell (mailto:hifis...@gate.net) Join the CD PLAYER DISC Discussions : http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdplayers/ http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/cdsound/ -Original Message- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 2:18 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT Thirty Five years ago. On 11-03-18 9:26 AM, David J Brooks wrote: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave I was in my second of three semesters at college taking Electronics Technology. I was then doing a co-op term at Barringer Research in Toronto, building prototype analog circuitry (lots of precision op-amps) for a proton precession magnetometer used in aerial mapping for finding oil. My soundtrack was progressive rock and I dismissively eschewed all else. I was about 2 years away from meeting my wife, who would introduce me to Pentax (I had a lowly Praktica LTL at the time). She had a pre-Spotmatic, may it rest in piece. -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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[...] What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. I was a 2nd year student. In the summer of 1976, which was the hottest and driest forever, I worked on a building site just outside Bordeaux with a fellow French student. We got sacked because we skived off too often, hitchiking all over the South and to Spain and back. Had a great time. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Professionally, 35 years ago I was working as a mechanical engineer in Ford Motor Light Truck Development, developing brakes for all Ford Light trucks. Actually worked on the forerunner of ABS (anti-lock brakes) among alot of other things. Personally, I had just sold a 71 Capri that I had succeeded in making almost un streetable, but pretty decent in autocrossing - it was prepped to run in B sedan SCCA. Bought a new Hobie Cat 16' catamaran began learning a new skill in sailing. Photographically, I had an Asahi Spotmatic, a few Pentax lenses and some Tamron lenses, shot exclusively Kodak slide film and got a keeper or two every once and a while. Cross country skied a bunch and started getting into backpacking. Kenneth Waller http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller - Original Message - From: David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com Subject: OT Thirty Five years ago. Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I was in college, majoring in Sex and Drugs and Rockroll, with a sideline in left-wing politics. -T On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: [...] What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. I was a 2nd year student. In the summer of 1976, which was the hottest and driest forever, I worked on a building site just outside Bordeaux with a fellow French student. We got sacked because we skived off too often, hitchiking all over the South and to Spain and back. Had a great time. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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David J Brooks wrote: What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Welll - in March of 1976 I was playing in the New York City Scrabble Championship and photographing it as well. The year before I had acquired two Pentax Kx's , a 28 mm lens, a 50 f1.7 and a 135. PReviously I had had a Ricoh and a Mamiya-Sekor which I was fond of calling my mamiya. I was just starting to do my own developing and processing about that time too. I was also hanging out shooting pool and playing Scrabble and listening to music at a bar/cafe in the village called Broadway Charly's where , in 1978, I had my first photo exhibit. I was working as a senior project director in the tab end of Consumer research for a little company called MG Data. We were sharing offices with Simmons Research and their mainframe then. I was writing specs on large sheets of lined and blocked paper and getting them key-punched. The company was like a family - lots of hard work and lots of laughter. Using a program from Donovan Data systems for our specs. One of the systems guys taught me how to develop and print slides with Cibachrome. That was before I took the plunge to do black and white processing myself.. a bit backwards, there but I had so feared that my klutziness would result in disaster when trying to load film. That June I took my first travel vacation all by myself to the Pacific Northwest and the Canadian Rockies (I had been divorced about 4 years) Flew to Seattle where I got to stay with the parents of one of my clients for a night or two on each end of the two weeks - took the ferry to Vancouver , the train east to the Bamff and Lake Louise - bussed it back to Vancouver. I had gone in quest of the Burges Shale, in a way - still a bit of a rock hound then. It was a spectacular trip .. met all kinds of interesting people, hiked, took photos, ate yummy food and came back refreshed but wasn't able to get up to the trilobites on Mt Burgess due to a late spring snow on top of the not yet melted winter cover. ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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At Military High School. Believing that civilians do not worth a penny; I mean, then ;). Sure that an order can even cure cancer! Bulent - http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/bulentcelasun 2011/3/18 David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Bulent, I see you've matured a bit since then. :-) Regards, Bob S. On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Bulent Celasun bulent.cela...@gmail.com wrote: At Military High School. Believing that civilians do not worth a penny; I mean, then ;). Sure that an order can even cure cancer! Bulent - http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/bulentcelasun 2011/3/18 David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I was in the US Navy stationed in Pt. Mugu, CA, where we deployed each year to New Zealand and then on to Antarctica. That was my second year in the squadron and was the year we pulled three planes out of the frozen ice. Two had crashed on the same day the year before and the third was from numerous year earlier. I remember leaving New Zealand in late March the following year thinking I was leaving the worst tour of duty I had experienced in over 20 years service at that time. Now that I look back on the experiences and friends I made, especially in New Zealand, it is one of my bright spots! My heart has been especially heavy these past few months with the quakes in New Zealand and Japan. Christchurch was our main base for staging operations to Antarctica. I had spent several years in and out of Japan in the late 60's, and my wife and I had spent several mini vacations there from Guam. My pictures from New Zealand and Antarctica can be viewed at http://www.walthamler.smugmug.com Walt On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:26 AM, David J Brooks pentko...@gmail.com wrote: Paul's comments on a photo he did 35 years ago an new adjustments got me thinking. I use to do a way back when column for my companies Newsletter, jobs we had done 30 years ago, so i just thought i would put this out there. What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Me i was doing my first of many Trans Canada Pipeline jobs, providing precise elevations on a series of bench marks North of Toronto. Dave -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I wish I had more remaining unchanged from that period, though ;) I mean; knees, vertebrae and eyes, to say the least!. Bulent The Mature One - http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/bulentcelasun -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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My first year in school and also the year I met one of my best friends still. Don't remember much of that year but I know I was a happy kid all in all =) Ecke 2011/3/18 Bulent Celasun bulent.cela...@gmail.com: I wish I had more remaining unchanged from that period, though ;) I mean; knees, vertebrae and eyes, to say the least!. Bulent The Mature One - http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/bulentcelasun -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 18/03/2011 7:26 AM, David J Brooks wrote: What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? Working as head cook at the Royal International Hotel in Regina, and trying both desperately and unsuccessfully to lose my virginity. -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Working as head cook at the Royal International Hotel in Regina, and trying both desperately and unsuccessfully to lose my virginity. if you stop cooking heads women might take more interest in you. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 18/03/2011 5:34 PM, Bob W wrote: Working as head cook at the Royal International Hotel in Regina, and trying both desperately and unsuccessfully to lose my virginity. if you stop cooking heads women might take more interest in you. B I only cooked the heads of the ones who turned me down -- William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 2011-03-18 07:26 , David J Brooks wrote: What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? on thinking back the first thing that came up was i thought i was infatuated with Amanda, whom i had not yet met, but who called me from the next town on nights she babysat for my lascivious high school chemistry teacher (who set the whole thing up); we spent hours on the phone but when we finally met it was awful this may have been the one winter the Kennebec River froze so smoothly for a few weeks that i had done a ten-mile skate around Swan's island; i built an ice boat only to find fresh snow on the river the first morning it was ready to sail i hadn't even touched a computer yet but i was soon to subscribe to Byte Magazine and devour details of the S-100 bus, dip switch programming, Commodore PET ... photography was only a blip -- in 76 my father was retired from the street photography i wouldn't appreciate until 82, and my stepfather had given me a camera (i think it was a K-1000) but i had no budget for film so nothing happened and he asked the next year if he could give it to a student of his -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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Hey Steve Did you go to U of M Orono by any chance? ann steve harley wrote: On 2011-03-18 07:26 , David J Brooks wrote: What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.?? on thinking back the first thing that came up was i thought i was infatuated with Amanda, whom i had not yet met, but who called me from the next town on nights she babysat for my lascivious high school chemistry teacher (who set the whole thing up); we spent hours on the phone but when we finally met it was awful this may have been the one winter the Kennebec River froze so smoothly for a few weeks that i had done a ten-mile skate around Swan's island; i built an ice boat only to find fresh snow on the river the first morning it was ready to sail i hadn't even touched a computer yet but i was soon to subscribe to Byte Magazine and devour details of the S-100 bus, dip switch programming, Commodore PET ... photography was only a blip -- in 76 my father was retired from the street photography i wouldn't appreciate until 82, and my stepfather had given me a camera (i think it was a K-1000) but i had no budget for film so nothing happened and he asked the next year if he could give it to a student of his -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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On 2011-03-18 20:09 , Ann Sanfedele wrote: Hey Steve Did you go to U of M Orono by any chance? nope -- visited the campus a couple times; my brother went to U of M Bangor for a while circa 1990 (eventually graduated from Pratt), and my stepfather taught part-time at U of M Portland/Gorham (and also at Bowdoin) late 70s to mid-80s -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
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I worked at U of M while my second husband was studying Forestry there... lived in Orono from the fall of 1960 to fall of 1963. But went back to visit in the 70's - still close to a couple of friends I met there students and teachers. ann steve harley wrote: On 2011-03-18 20:09 , Ann Sanfedele wrote: Hey Steve Did you go to U of M Orono by any chance? nope -- visited the campus a couple times; my brother went to U of M Bangor for a while circa 1990 (eventually graduated from Pratt), and my stepfather taught part-time at U of M Portland/Gorham (and also at Bowdoin) late 70s to mid-80s -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
