[Argenticien]

Great piece of history, Rob. It's nice when you can actually track down a place like that to which you have a personal historical tie.
--Dave

[RobG]

Great piece of history, Rob. It's nice when you can actually track down a place like that to which you have a personal historical tie.
--Dave

Thanks Dave! It was very cool. I also got to see the train station where my grandfather probably grew up, working with his grandfather on the lines and signals.

[G and T]

Glenn, great historical record from what I am guessing (simplistically, as a non-Australian but a student of history) may be considered Australia's finest hour. I don't mean to glorify battle, but it seems rather noble or generous to volunteer for obviously massively dangerous service half a world away, and lose 60,000 dead fighting what could easily have been considered someone else's war. It would have been natural for Australians to say "not our problem" when there was all that ocean between you and the war. In U.S. at least, we have a hell of a time rallying public opinion behind that kind of intervention when we have not been directly attacked. (I know, for Australians at the time, it depended too on how you defined "we," given the Empire/Commonwealth construct.)

Well said, Dave, and thank you. At the time it was largely a case that because the UK was under threat, Australia was at war. Australia's losses in WW1 were huge in proportion to the population. I'm proud to say that Australians were instrumental in turning the tide in France through the use of the combination of tanks and troops.

Out of a population at the time of just over 4,000,000 more than 331,000 enlisted and by 1918 were the only all volunteer army on the western front. Yes most Australians are very proud of what these men achieved but with the huge losses and wounded there weren't many families not affected by this war including my own.
Glenn

[arnold]

I took these shots with my KX during Expo ’86 in Vancouver.

A good record of Expo '86. I went to the Omni theatre before the main opening, but never went to Expo itself, as I find crowds a detraction. Vancouver really changed after Expo, and the world saw what a great place it was. The population seems to have doubled.

[gofour3]

A good record of Expo '86. I went to the Omni theatre before the main opening, but never went to Expo itself, as I find crowds a detraction. Vancouver really changed after Expo, and the world saw what a great place it was. The population seems to have doubled.

Thanks. Yeah the world discovered Vancouver during Expo ’86 and it changed the city forever, not necessarily in a good way. I miss the “small town” Vancouver of the ‘70s with less people and a cheaper cost of living.

Phil.

[arnold]

Matriculation at Pretoria Boys' High (South Africa) December 1960. (Seated on far right if you are interested) I believe the boys still stand when a master walks into the class.

[gofour3]

These were taken in 1972 on my first trip to Europe, with my first camera a Kodak Instamatic. I was shooting the older K-12 processed Kodachrome-X 126 format.


Trafalgar Square, London:



Somewhere in France:



Somewhere in Switzerland:



Phil.

[gofour3]

These were taken in NYC in October '79 with my KX shooting Kodachrome 64.







Phil.

[Jacquot]

A month before I moved to NYC, looks very familiar.

[LarsW]

My parents and my older brother. Me behind the camera, 8 or 9 years old. On vacation in Stockholm in early 80's.

[gofour3]

A few from the January 1978 Vancouver Auto Show. I ended up buying a metallic green 1978 Z28 later that year as my first car.

(KX shooting Ektachrome 64 Tungsten film)







Phil.

[arnold]

A few from the January 1978 Vancouver Auto Show. I ended up buying a metallic green 1978 Z28 later that year as my first car

Good shots. For a first car, that is doing well. The 280Z was a step in the wrong direction. They kept putting on weight after this. People with flares and long hair also give this away as from the seventies.
Your NY pictures are also an excellent record of the time. Could you ever have imagined those towers being gone?

[gofour3]

Good shots. For a first car, that is doing well. The 280Z was a step in the wrong direction. They kept putting on weight after this. People with flares and long hair also give this away as from the seventies.
Your NY pictures are also an excellent record of the time. Could you ever have imagined those towers being gone?

Thanks Arnold. Yeah pictures of NYC with the twin towers are now instantly dated!
I sold the Z28 after a year as the monthly loan payments were too much. I ended up buying a used ‘69 Pontiac Beaumont for around $700 instead.

Phil.

[Blue]

Ketners Mill taken mid 1980s, built 1832

[Blue]

Taken with a Universal Press camera on 120 B&W film ~1980. Just for reference, #41 was 5' 10" and a sophomore.