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
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
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.
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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 ;-)
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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
35 years ago I was just starting in this job, and wondering why the hell I had
left my photojournalism and Marine Corps careers.
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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?
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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:
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
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
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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
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
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
35 years ago ... I remember that's when this thread started.
or something like that.
Sincerely,
Collin Brendemuehl
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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!
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
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
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
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
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
26 in 1976. Active Army first half of the year. Working construction the
second half. Kodak 110 Polaroid 600.
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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.
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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
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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
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,
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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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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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
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
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
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
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Paul's comments on a
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
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.
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
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,
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
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
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
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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
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
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:26:38AM -0400, David J Brooks
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
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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
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
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,
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
At Military High School.
Believing that civilians do not worth a penny; I mean, then ;).
Sure that an order can even cure cancer!
Bulent
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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
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
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
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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,
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.
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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.
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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
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
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,
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
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 ,
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