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This is Nic, anoter LJ crew member... If you read my "about me" section, I told you these guys run thick as thieves. Dont let this macho pic fool you laides, this guy is all geek all day. But he does love some Pie! This is the only time i've ever seen him without a shirt on... actually none of us wore a shirt for 4 days.. it was amazing. In addition to that, Nic and I would just piss ourselves and walk into the rive... why use a port-o-potty, or even whip it out, when you have mother nature right there to cleanse your mind, body, soul, and your swim trunks. Nic eventually tried marking over my spots... not cool Nic. River 09
The Grand Junction hotel is on the right.
Once again, I needed to be a few steps more to the right and a few paces forward, but I'm sure that you can see why I am not!
Attach a camera to a microscope and viola! The intricacies of a tree are amazing! I had entered this into a science photo contest and it won 2nd place.
Again, these are all pictures I shot way back when....over 15 years ago...that all won some type of award or recognition. I found the last time I was at my parents house a couple weeks ago and they brought back SUCH memories. Ah the good ol days - when the word "digital" was unheard of, we all had to be really careful about how many times we clicked because film cost money, we had to know the purpose and function of every button on the camera, nothing was easy, there was no manipulation on a computer, you had to lock yourself in a tiny pitch black hole to get your film on a spinning reel (which was the hardest thing to do - one time it took me a whole hour!), the dark room was the "coolest" place to be, black and white was the way to go because color machines were WAY too expensive, techniques to pictures were done with chemicals, hand manipulations or dark room accidents, sepia was a chemical not a button, there was no need to smoke anyhing because the fumes from the chemicals causes enough giddiness, and there was an assembly line for photo processing in public dark rooms, contact paper was king, matting was hard work and corners always suffered...or your finger suffered, physical presentation mattered just as much as the quality of the photo, .....should I keep going? I hope people are getting nostaligic WITH me....rather than saying - my GOD she is old!!! :-) Anyway, these prints are still in good shape so I thought I would digitally capture them with and without the matting so they stay "alive" forever! HAIL the good ol days - I would bring them back in a heartbeat. I still want a dark room in my basement one day!
Back in the Day
by Christina Aguilera
What we're gonna do right here is go back
Way back, back into time
(Donny Hathaway, Leena Horne)
(Miss Aretha, (The Real Thing) James Brown, Billie Holiday)
(Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, Louis Armstrong)
(Minnie Riperton, Otis Redding, Etta James)
Back in the day, they used to say
Play that song, get it going, and the band played
And still today, you hear us say
Play that song all night long, Mr. DJ
Though times have changed,
It's still the same
We all need a minute to get away
So let it go and feel the flow
If you've got soul, let the world know
We're gonna set the mood (set the mood off right)
Gonna go back to an old school groove (go back to an old school groove)
Gonna rewind to another time
When the originators, innovators were alive, yeah
Here we say now
So break out the Marvin Gaye and Etta James
Your Lady Day, and Coltrane
Turn up your 45's, bring back to life
The sound and vibe of yesterday
Open your mind, enjoy the ride,
Live out tonight and grab that Soul Train
Take it back, take it
Back in the day, back in the day
Oh baby
Back in the day, back in the day
Won't you take me back?
Back in the day, back in the day
I'll do it
Back in the day, back in the day
___________________________________
Wearing Atomic Blythe dress and SqueakyMonkey top hat.
LeS posted hers and I'd just come across the polaroid (no less!) of me from junior prom and had to post, even as I cringe. I look like a bridesmaid.
For those of you who have been surfing the San Onofre area for more than a few decades you might remember this place called Echo Arch which was a walk in campground (on the beach) located just north of Trail 1 at the San O campground.
These are some old photos taken in 1980 that I came across from back in the day while my friends and I camped there.
We would pack our boards, wetsuits, towels, a little food and other "incidentals" for surf trips from our usual stomping grounds like Seal Beach, H.B. and Newport and head down to San Onofre, Oceanside or beyond for the weekend.
That's my friend Craig checking the surf.
I used Photoscape to clean up the shots.
Anniston, Al.
Coca-Cola delivery truck in front of the Coca-Cola Bottling Plant on Noble Street in Anniston.
For those of you who have been surfing the San Onofre area for more than a few decades you might remember this place called Echo Arch which was a walk in campground (on the beach) located just north of Trail 1 at the San O campground.
These are some old photos taken in 1980 that I came across from back in the day while my friends and I camped there.
We would pack our boards, wetsuits, towels, a little food and other "incidentals" for surf trips from our usual stomping grounds like Seal Beach, H.B. and Newport and head down to San Onofre, Oceanside or beyond for the weekend.
I used Photoscape to clean up the shots.
Here is my old homie Tony busting a Crooked Cop at one of your old skate spots circa 1988. Toys R Us (Santa Ana, CA)
Tony had a serious bag of tricks. You can see more of them here: Tony's tricks
Today is my Mom's birthday. It's hard for me to believe sometimes but when my Mom was born we were still in the thick of World War 2.
Above is a photograph of my Mom circa 1978 (I think) taken by her friend Susan Mogul.
The silver / gray '81 Malibu belonged to my buddy Chris O'Shea, he bought it with the original 229 V6 and quickly set about dropping in a built up 350 V8 motor. My '68 Camaro was originally powered by a 327 V8 but I bought it just a few years after a brand new ZZ350 Crate Motor from GM was dropped in. These motors were in their day THE small block of choice for many restorations, hot rods & engine swaps. It produced about 377 horsepower and since my Camaro was gutted to the point it weighed under 3000 lbs. even with ME inside the car was plenty quick & scary!
Cadeby Colliery & the Don Valley viewed from the top of Conisbrough castle, South Yorkshire. The River Dearne joins the River Don behind the colliery to the left. The Don flows from left to right through the scene while the Great Central Railway/LNER Sheffield-Doncaster railway line crosses it on the bridge in the centre of view. The fan of sidings into Cadeby colliery is full of coal wagons.
I took the journey from Thorne to Sheffield many times over the 1967-70 period & I always saw a few NCB industrial steam engines moving about in the yards here, at Denaby colliery or at the small power station off the picture to the left. The colliery closed in 1986.
The Dearne Valley Railway (also closed) cuts across top left to right behind the pit complex - now a walking path. The whole pit area was cleared & became the Earth Centre in the 1990s but even the earth was unsustainable & it closed in 2004.
This is from one of the countless surf / camping trips my friends and I used to make in San Diego County. I'm pretty sure this was at a campground in Leucadia probably 1985-ish. If I remember correctly it was winter and the waves were small and stormy the entire trip. That didn't matter much because we always found something else to do and managed to stay out of trouble most of the time.
On the rock from left to right is Alec, Tony and I don't remember the other guys name. Gary is front man playing air guitar haha.