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I shot this photo circa 1970 with my Polaroid J66 Land camera in Hamden, Connecticut, just off of State Street near the intersection with Ridge Road.
Tsawwassen Legion Annual Car Show BC Canada
For my video; youtu.be/z5Tihd5UoZA,
Beach Grove, Delta, British Columbia
The second generation of the Chevrolet Chevelle was built from 1967 until 1972. This two-door coupe version has a 5.3 litre V8 engine.
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Drivers: Francisco SA CARNEIRO / Joao CANNAS
Car: 1970 CHEVRON B16
Canadian Rockies, summer 1970
After the Grand Tetons in Wyoming, we drove on through Montana (which I don't remember at all) and Idaho (where I do remember passing through Couer d'Alene, if only because the name was so cool), and then on into Canada. We probably camped somewhere in southern Alberta that night, and then continued on to Calgary. From there, we headed a little more west and then a little further north, until we reached the amazingly beautiful region of Banff, Jasper, and Lake Louise.
The scene shown here speaks for itself, but the reason I took this picture was to capture the amazing color of the lake ... which I did not succeed in doing. It's hard to describe: the lake was kind of a robin's-egg blue, much bluer than the color of a typical lake, which is a very dark blue or green, or somewhat brown and muddy. Sometimes the lakes in the Canadian Rockies seem a little milky, which seems to be the case in the middle part of this lake. Anyway, all of this is caused by the bits of granite and rock washed into the lake by the glaciers in the area ... or so I'm told.
We camped somewhere in this area for one night, saw an elk (or maybe it was a moose) wandering peacefully through out campsite area. I took dozens and dozens of photographs, some of which are contained in the larger album for this trip. And then we started driving south and further west, through the town of Kamloops, and eventually all the way to Vancouver in British Columbia.
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It was only when I received a note from p0psharlow (see below) that I realized I had not just photographed some random, anonymous lake in the middle of nowhere, but a well-known place called Peyto Lake , which was apparently named after an early explorer, Ebenezer William Peyto.
p0psharlow also gave me a link to a slide show of roughly 1,000 other photographs of Peyto Lake -- which may or may not include mine. And I think I've found it on the Yahoo Maps reference, so the photograph has now also been geotagged...
Note: this photo was published nearly 40 years after it was first taken, in a Sep 7, 2009 blog titled "Canadian immigration special: Inspiring Photographs of Canada." It was also published in an Oct 2, 2011 Schöne D Q M Photos blog, with the same caption and detailed notes that I had written on this Flickr page.
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"Soccer World Championship"
"Campeonato Mundial de Furbol"
Important pure silver coin
From my collection
Macro
I really enjoyed that World Cup in person
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Bit of an odd one, I thought it was an old SAAB when I first caught a glimpse of it. Old streeview images show this one looking very dirty, so its obviously had a tidy up reasonably recently.
Matra made these for about 6 years, and turned out fewer than 10,000.
I was pleased to see this beast, a full-size luxury muscle car with the bigger 7-litre engine option. I'd happily have taken it home (though not sure where I'd park it!).
It was a relatively short-lived model and apparently just 2,646 1970 X100s were made.
Classic 1970 6.6-litre Pontiac muscle car TUJ435H at Bidford Classic Wings and Wheels on 15th September 2024.
The Allman Brothers were a very popular band during the 1970's pioneers in a musical sub genre called "Southern Rock" which is a blending of country and rock elements. It's been so long ago I can't remember the exact year but I do remember it was at the Capital Theater. This was a very blurred scanned film shot that just sat in my computer drives for years but I ran it through Topaz Sharpen AI and then through KREA AI enhancement and then ran the JPEG image through both programs again to give you all this image brought back from the dead to speck and here is a link to YouTube video of one of their concerts from close to the time I saw them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hb9aNgivdg&ab_channel=Allman...
It's the same in every churchyard you said
These memories of endless love
Etched out in unforgiving stone
But I would rather you told me now
Rather than when I am cold and dead
I thought we would be together
I didn't think I would be here alone
The stones are more for the living
A promise never to forget
A love to go on
I expect you think me ridiculous
Tidying up the flowers and the edges
As if you were still in bed
But I miss you my darling
So I have to be here instead
A section of the churchyard had been restored recently, and some graves and the inscriptions cleaned. This particular grave belonged to a couple who had passed away in the 1970's.
But somebody had come, after the restoration, and left a token in memory.
Wilmington Churchyard, East Sussex, UK.
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I can not tell you why the 1970 Opel calender featured a photo of a downhill soapbox race, nor what Opel imagined to gain with it. I can only see the Opel name on the wheels of the two orange or yellow vehicles. Maybe the sons of an Opel executive participated, Opel sponsored and the boys had to appear in the calander.
What I wonder is, does this kind of racing still exist today? Or has it disappeared althogether because it is not fashionable in our Playstation and X-Box years anymore to participate?