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from deep in the archives, redone in B/W
this was 3 motor rebuilds, , two transmissions, one rear end, disc brakes all 4 corners, set of tires and rims, new chrome bumpers, front and rear suspension upgrades ago ....oh yeah, also when it had AC
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Wayback Wednsday posting: I havnt done much in Poland, just a short trip in 2012 and 2018 so don't have many photos to show. However a fellow contributors post featuring a former Regional Kolo EP07 made me think of this image. In 2012 I made a short visit to the famous Wolsztyn to take part in the steam driving courses. I ran one trip from Wolsztyn to Poznan and back, then the next day hired a car to chase the morning trip. Afterwards I was dropped at the main station in Poznan where I would make my way back to Berlin then onto Prague. At the station I caught this rather rare trifecta of working (in real service!) steam, diesel and electric. All built for PKP but wearing rather colorful post sectorization schemes of . Today, the diesel and electric have gone on to other duties with EMUs and DMUs taking over, but the regular steam turns continue!
Way Back Machine - September, 1976
Davidson River, Transylvania County, NC
This photo was taken by my mom. A day at the river in the last days of summer... skipping rocks with Dave. I honestly do not remember this day.. but I remember like it was yesterday the fishing trips that he and I would take to this river as adults... twenty years later.
Wayback Machine - 1940's
An exposure of my mom (upper far right) and some other girls outside on the courtyard at Black Mountain High School, taken by one of the two guys in this photo.
And a second exposure of the two guys in front of the school, taken by mom.
Mom explained that when her friend handed the camera back to her, she forgot to advance the film before taking the next shot.
I asked her if ,when she got the prints back, this was a disappointment.. or if they liked the effect. She said that they were disappointed and hated that the photo got "ruined".
It made her smile to know that these mistakes are being enjoyed 60 years later. Then we had a nice talk about time and memories...
Wayback Machine - June 1973
Fort Anderson / Brunswick Town.. on the Cape Fear River in North Carolina.
I'm such a tourist.. Dave and his sister are in the background with my aunt.
I'd like to get back here someday soon... this time with a camera in my hand.
Way Back Machine
This is my dad at age seventeen or eighteen, with his little nephew. That age would make this photo from 1945 or 1946.
Wayback Machine - "A Very Wayback Christmas, Part 1"
My grandfather Justus stands in the background with this work shirt still on, which says so much about the man.
Seated are my great-grandparents, James and Martha Justus. While my grandfather passed away before I was born, I did have the pleasure of knowing both of my great-grandparents, although briefly.
They were married in September of 1900, and were married for 73 years until Martha passed away at the age of 88 years old.
This photo was taken by my mother (she thinks) in the early 1960s at the Justus home.. which still stands today, although it has seen some damage recently.
Wayback Machine - 1959
Photo by Wilma Blankenship
This photo was taken by mom on the front porch of what was her parent's house. The brick building to the right was her dad's garage.
These are the guys who married my mom and her two sisters... a cool group. My dad is in the center... and Dave's dad is the one at the lower right.
Wayback Machine - Summer, 1947
Do the ideals of our youth ever truly disappear through the years? The times where our pure enthusiasm for each day... our longing for adventure... could be quenched by an afternoon spent outdoors, down a dusty mountain road at the shore of a lake, laughing with our friends.
Do they fade away like the twilight?... or do they continue to linger like the light in this photograph?... still shining brightly today, just as the sun burned down through the trees on my mom and her friends on this late summer afternoon so many years ago.
I look at these kids of years gone by.... and I see life's eternal young Americans. I see something that still lives in all of us.
Way Back Machine - Late 1940s
Photo by Wilma Blankenship
This was scanned from a negative. Mom never had prints made from these accidental multiple exposures and overlaps. I showed her the image, and asked her if she had any information on it. Her reply, with a smile, was "lord, what a mess".
She still finds it amusing that these are among my favorite photographs in her archives.
Despite the decades that have past since these shutter clicks... and that fact that I know nothing about the experiences of those who exist only within this image to me... I feel a connection to it. It is as if my part of my own memory found its way into this photo... the swirling, chaotic, exuberant dreams of youth and revelry.
Way Back Machine - 1966
The ladies from my mom's bowling team at the motel where they were staying for a tournament.
Wayback Machine - "A Very Wayback Christmas, Part 2"
Christmas 1971... and I was not terribly impressed with Santa Claus. I don't think that he was too impressed with me, either.
Merry Christmas!