Out of the past - wow

[NutmegCT]

Couldn't believe it. I'm thumbing through an old Motor Trend magazine (June 1959), looking for an article about a cross-country drive by the "new" Mercedes-Benz diesel sedan, the 190D.

Something in the article rang a bell. Then I looked closely at a picture at the top of the first page. A man and two boys looking at the car as it stopped on its way across the country.

That man is my father; the boys are me and my brother, age 10 and 8.

What an incredible picture to see. Talk about being gob-smacked. I even remember my dad's coat, and the "ear loppers" we used to wear as kids in cold weather. Dad was personnel manager for Sinclair Oil Company's southwest division in the 1950s-60s. He was "into" cars - especially something a bit different.

There just may be something more to this than at first meets the eye ...

Tom

 

[tony barnhill]

Is an old 190D in your future?

 

[DrEntropy]

WOOHOO!!! That's NEAT Tom!!


More of what dear Horsemits calls: "Pumping Irony."

 

[tony barnhill]

Once our daughter (around 10 at the time) was flipping through some old National Geographic's when she found a similar photo of her mother & me at the Monterrey Jazz Festival when her mom was pregnant with her!

 

[NutmegCT]

Tony - probably not a 190D, especially for a coast-to-coast in 2010. But the "discovery" maybe gives me more ammunition (i.e. AN EXCUSE!) to bring home one of these (220S or 220SE):

 

[vagt6]

THAT is really cool!

Reminds us of how really innovative the M-B geniuses are. No other marque on the planet like 'em,for over 100 years.

Truly amazing.

 

[AngliaGT]

Tom,

That's a really cool Christmas present.
It would be interesting to read that article.I
love the picture taken in Olympia,before there
ever was an I5.

- Doug

 

[Brooklands]

Tom...great to see that photo of you, especially since I just spent the last few weeks scanning old photos for my mom's digital photo frame for Christmas...

 

[tony barnhill]

Neat old photos....

 

[Twosheds]

Too cool, Tom.

It's a sign.

 

[NutmegCT]

John - it's definitely a sign.

- of loss of common sense.

I think I need a Hydrak.

Tom

 

[DrEntropy]

ADENAUER!!!

 

[Basil]

We have an old Brownie camera (my wife's father's) that we think still has some film in it, but we cant get it open! I would love to see if there was film in there still good enough to be developed!

 

[DrEntropy]

If it's B&W, be SURE it's wound all the way to the take-up side before you try determinedly to open it. B&W film holds a latent image a LOOONG time. Likely some priceless pix in there if it indeed has a roll in it.

 

[Basil]

If it's B&W, be SURE it's wound all the way to the take-up side before you try determinedly to open it. B&W film holds a latent image a LOOONG time. Likely some priceless pix in there if it indeed has a roll in it.

Part of the problem (I think) is the winder isn't winding the film, thus the film is staying threaded in the camera, thus preventing it from being opened!

 

[DrEntropy]

eeep... there's a thingie called a "changing bag"... Like a liner'd T-shirt but no 'head hole'. Light tight... but you'll have to find someone who knows that camera, too! May not be so easy now.

What are the I.D. markings on the camera? Mebbe a "three angle" set of pix of it? 620 or 127?

 

[texas_bugeye]

used a bag to open Black and white 35MM motion film wound on reuasable 35mm cans in high school photo class. We bought a roll of motion film lasted the whole class all semester!cheap! Should be cool see what on that film!

 

[Brooklands]

We often had to do emergency film removal on the job. I used many closets, bathrooms, etc to remove film and package it in total darkness. Saved a lot of film over the years. A good photo shop should be able to help with this too.

 

[DrEntropy]

I always kept a bag in my kit. Never know what's gonna happen "out there".

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:] used a bag to open Black and white 35MM motion film wound on reuasable 35mm cans in high school photo class. We bought a roll of motion film lasted the whole class all semester!cheap! Should be cool see what on that film! [/QUOTE]

TRIVIA:
Know how to tell the difference between mo-pic and still 35mm, Chris?

 

[texas_bugeye]

I cant remember it was 30 years ago. ah the sound track strips up the side!