DocAndersen
My father’s pictures this time Indiana 14 was the folder name. First off, I don’t have 14 folders called Indiana. I have three, 13, 14 and scene 4. It makes me wonder what happened to the others. Dad stored slides in one of three modes. He stored in the carousel used with the projector. He stored them in the boxes, and he stored them in slide trays. He seems to have named all of them differently which tells me over the years he changed his system of storage. Towards the end, the slides were stored in a watertight container and forgotten. I suspect the last time anyone looked at some of the slides was most likely before they moved from the farm in the mid-1990s. I don’t think dad ever show my wife slides so it may even earlier than that.
My wife appeared on the scene in 1990. I do remember a slide show in the 1980’s early on period. We had visitors from Thailand, and mom and dad had a party at the farm. I remember someone asking about slides and dad pulling a few slides out from our time in Thailand. By then, it had been 18 years since we had lived in the Land of Smiles. The images though were as fun later as they were earlier. You can’t go back in time, but you remember what was back in time. I guess that becomes the journey. To wander back in time. Still, so many of this picture are 9ones no one, but my father ever saw (most likely 2 or 3 times in total) once when the images were taken.
Once when he reviewed them after picking them up from the store. And probably one more time when he put them in the box and sealed it with packing tape to make it waterproof. It, the box, with slides were then stored in a place that time forgot. I know I had forgotten the slides. It wasn’t until my father asked me if I could convert some of his father’s (my grandfathers) slides into digital files that I remembered all of dad’s slides. I still have the cameras dad used for some of the slides. At one point he had to change cameras, his camera was stolen while we were in Thailand. But I have the replacement and then the quick camera he bought to take faster pictures (point and shoot film camera). But I sometimes wonder when I look at these pictures what was he thinking, and he snapped the picture?
We are fortunate to have amazing fathers! Cheers!
that is very true and something I am happy to have had in my life
yes, i miss now my father.. i am a father’s girl because i am the youngest.
I understand that, my daughter is very close to me as well!
It is always so exciting to restore precious moments from the past!!! Thank you so much for this amazing post + photos!!!
Thank you so much, you always have wonderful pictures to share so this means a lot!
You can’t go back in time
But you remember what was back in time
You can’t go back in time
But you can remember you were mine
You can’t go back in time
Because it goes by as the clock chime
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If you close your eyes really tight, you can push yourself back to a different time.
These days when I close my eyes, I only see nothingness that makes me wonder the probability of quantum theory. ?
Time, then my friend, to open your eyes
I remember my father used to have pictures in Slides film. you know, shown by a projector.
My dad had more than 30,000 slides. (well some were my grandfather’s).
amazing… i love looking at my father’s slides .. he was a photographer in an advertising agency.
that is amazing, my dad loved taking pictures but he was a college professor.