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Sydney Bus Museum's magnificently restored double-decker buses made a nostalgic return to the CBD this long weekend, as part of the Transport Heritage Expo. Aside from the steam train rides and heritage train display on the platforms, these heritage buses performed 30 minute shuttles around the CBD of Sydney, exciting youngsters, and bringing nostalgic memories flooding back for those old enough to have grown up with them during our own childhood.
These images are all taken at Sydney's beautiful "Central" railway station.
Wild stuff can be found deep, deep, deep in the back of my desk drawer.
I might have joined NYMUG in the early 1990s. This was probably the last membership card I had from them.
I think I was using a Mac IIci back then.
admit it, my grandfather is dashing - even with that funny little shadowy mustache that makes me think of a magician or fruit vendor. i see a lot of me and my sister, when we were younger, in dad's little face.
sandi and i became friends on the first day of 4th grade -- we still keep in touch after all these years
Ras Mikey I tweaks a nosebone. Notice he has a cast on his arm.
Mikey was riding for Z Roller back then.
For FGR - Back in the Day
Here I am posing with my old license photo from when I was 16. I really wanted to use my high school ID card or a yearbook photo, but I couldn't find either of those items.
Looks like I've been tagged for the 10 facts game. I don't normally do these things, but since J Wild is cool, I'll oblige.
1. I've been to France and Greece, but I was too young to remember anything about them.
2. I really want to visit the UK, but that will have to wait until a) the British pound disintegrates to nothing or b) I have a lot more money.
3. As a kid, I loved playing with Legos and Lincoln Logs
4. I never had a pet growing up because my dad didn't like animals. My brother managed to convince him to let him get a dachshund when I was in high school.
5. Speaking of high school, I used to be a band nerd. I was in the drumline and I played the snare.
6. Though it is supposed to be "America's favorite pastime," I am not much of a fan of baseball. Nor do I care much for golf.
7. I used to play ice hockey when I was in elementary school. I remember getting on the ice once and being unable to stay standing; I just kept on falling. Shortly after being yelled at by the coach, I realized that I hadn't taken the blade guards off my skates. *doh*
8. I would really like to make photography more than just a hobby.
9. I'm still not entirely sure what I'm going to do after I graduate college.
10. I think it would be really cool to meet my Flickr friends in real life. You guys all seem awesome!
Another vintage 15 year old photo - showing the whacked out Delonghi Trieste combi machine I had rockin' West Broadway.
Dustin, Phil, Curt, Josh, Joel, Ben, Tyler are seated in the background. Erin, Joey, Erin, and Travis are standing. Mark is on the right sitting.
This was the sophomores (class of 2000) doing some sort of skit that involved singing/dancing at Woodland Altars band camp, summer 1997.
What is now an isolated village on the hill, seems to have been a lot more popular back in the day.
This building used to be the Restaurant Huck one day (you can still recognize the original building, it's the yellow one in the new photo), standing right in the middle of fields and green forests. Then it even was a hotel, the hotel Frönsberger Hof. Seems like there was another building added in front of the original building.
There's an aerial photo of the whole building complex here - it must have been a nice place, still surrounded by a lovely landscape, with a great view and even their own swimming pool. Actually, what used to be the swimming pool is still there, but it was filled up and is now part of the playground (right in front of the playground slide, you can't see it from this angle though).
The aerial photo is dated 1972.
While doing some research, I found there had been at least two other restaurants in the village, which have also both closed down years ago. All there is left now is a boring place with some farms and a few houses.
In a bizarre sort of role-reversal, Joe Montana shoulders the camera while videographer Mike "Mondo" McInerney puts on his best Elvis impersonation ever.
Minolta X-700, 50mm f/1.7 MD, Do not remember the film. Circa 1985
I found a print of this "family classic" in one of my files. Here is my brother, and dad, along with our ride back in the day, our "ghetto blaster" the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, white-wall tires, missing hub-cap, and all!
Despite its scars, I was amazed how sweet the print still looks. I took this shot with a Minolta X-700, and 50mm f/1.7 MD lens, my main kit for years. I look back at the prints, and still marvel at the spot-on metering of the X-700, and the fine Minolta optics. Ah, those were the days.
Here's the Team picture after the City Championship that we unfortunately lost 6-5. Our 2 best pitchers were on old school family vacations, so I had to pitch. This was a great team made up of all my buds in the neighborhood. We practiced every day that we didn't have a game. No coach, No parents, just us and very few kids ever missed practice... we had no uniforms but we could play and we had fun.
Front row (L to R) Tim "the Boomer" Brockman, Rob Balge @ 14, Dean Clay, Bruce Sixty, Jerry Brockman, Gary Milke
Back row (L to R) Dave Dowdle, Richard Donaldson, Dennis "Duck" Donaldson, Jeff Wickland, Coach Don Miller, Dean "the Dream" Jones and Derick Adams
To this day I periodically run into everyone but the coach and the Donaldsons. Guess I better look them up on Facebook...Classic shot, huh?
Built in 1910 by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The Norfolk/Southern serves this area now.
Sad to see another part of Vanishing America.
My best friends Daughter, isn't she cute. And fuck you if you even had a perverted though. The only reason she took this pic is because she was bribed with candy. lol
An early selfie from 1992.
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Back in the day, there were not many options for indoor photography lighting..
Sylvania P25 blue dot flashbulbs.
Run Down Building & light pole and Exxon sign are all that remain of this one time service station. From the looks of the condition it has been many years vacant.
Will always be home to Me. And for a few others I know in town! The Griffith State Bank? Too old for Me to remember that. It was a Candy and soda fountain when I was a kid.Shot this same angle (give or take a few degrees) two weeks ago for #frifotos.(green) reshot this week and I think I did better.. minus the clouds..:( Any whooo thanks for looking and all the comments, got Me some great contacts/followers! Back in the Day?