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It was an MG with a Datsun engine. It was basically a piece of junk but it ran. Bought it for $300 cash American and filled the tank up for $2.90...Of course the gas gauge didn't work - that's another story and when it rained outside it drizzled inside but...I drove it one summer ('78) then I sold it for $350 back to the same guy that I bought it from - it was one of my Sister's X's - my former brother - in - law. Speaking of formers, this classic shot was taken by my former - HS sweetheart.
mom was never good at doing my hair, but i didn't care. to this day i still want someone to play with my hair.
....is now all grown up!
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!