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I was hoping to find a Manter croquet tournament in the slide archives, but it hasn't emerged yet. In the meantime, here's Grandpa and Stanley in our back yard (I think it wasn't at Gurleyville, but it's possible) playing Jarts. It was never the same as croquet, but Grandpa loved his lawn games!This picture came through Cory; he took a digital camera picture of a slide shown on the screen and given all the mediation it went through, it's not that bad. Carlye now owns a gizmo that goes directly from slide to create a jpeg file, but she can't find this slide. It's a slow process, but I'm grateful that they are doing this. When married to Steve for 15 years, everything was on slides and that means all of our family gatherings and kids growing are unavailable to me!
It is strange to imagine those days; slides were cheaper than developing a whole roll of film and then we could make prints of only the good ones. This was more in ideal than in practice - we almost never actually took slides in to make prints! As a result I have very few pictures from that time and I love to see them. I thought some of you might enjoy seeing Grandpa and my dad too.
Ahhhh....great shot of grandpa and Uncle Stanley. I bet JT had slides as well. Someday I'll have to look throught them....
ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic idea! I bet that a lot of us did the same thing in the 70's -- didn't EVERYONE own a carosel projector? Actually, that reminds me, that (a new projector) was dad's retirement gift from his department when he was 63!! Maybe we should have a slide show from the past sometime.
ReplyDeleteJust so you know...Greg has a machie that converts slides to jpeg!
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