19 posts tagged “papa's slidebox”

Some of Papa's photos mum found in an old album.

Diggers Ball, rural NSW - 1952.

 

 

 

 

So, here are some new tiles I made using Papa's slides.

Not sure if I've posted this one before but I'll post it again anyway because it's one of my favourites.

Golden Gate Bridge 1957

 

 

Chief Yellow Horse. Now I think this is along Route 66, but not sure exactly where. I did know, but I've forgotten. I did a bit of research but I think this has gone and there is a new building in its place. This is one of my favourites as well. It must have been 1957 as well. Because I'm sure they only went to America once. Although that car looks more '65.

 

 

This one was taken in Avoca, Ireland, in 1965

 

 

And this was 1965 as well. Cairo.

 

I've found America.

In the slide box that is.

I'm feeling a bit emotional actually.

This is a photo of my Papa. And that little contraption by his side is the camera he used to take all these photos we look at while he was on his world trip.

 

 

Amazing really. I often think of him and wonder what he would have made of the digital photography era. He developed his own photos, and when he died we cleared out his dark room. We took trailer loads of photos to the tip. Thousands. My father told me once that Papa asked him once if he wanted to go for a drive with him. He said they were gone for hours and hours because Frank (Papa) kept stopping to take photos. Dad said he took hundreds of photos.

After he had died, and Nan moved into a retirement home we cleared out the house. The sun room was full of National Geographic magazines. Thousands of them. He and Nan went on two world trips. One in 1957 and one in 1964. He must have had a real facination with the world.

He died one morning making toast. Nan said she heard the bang when he hit the ground. As you can see, he wasn't a small man. It was the way for someone like him to go.

Not so good for my Nan of course. She was very lonely after that.

I've never thought of them as being dead. I always imagine that they went off on another world trip and are having such a good time that they never came back.

I am absolutely buggered.

Do people say that in other places I wonder or is that another one of those Australian sayings. Because we say it all the time here. And when you think about it, its terribly inappropriate really. If you're tired you say you're buggered, if something breaks, you say its buggered, if you stuff something up you say, bugger, or bugger it. Although I did say it in woodwork once and the teacher freaked out and sent me out of class.

I guess I could say I feel rat shit. But that seems even stranger. How does a rat shit feel. But we seem to say that a lot as well. I feel rat shit, or if something breaks you say it's rat shit. i.e.  Can you fix it mate? Nah, she's rat shit.

Whatever term you want to use. I'm it. Very very tired.

Too many late nights, too much drinking, too many early mornings and early morning runs. Too much dust and too many windy dry days. Too much volunteering and too many tiles to make. And when I saw my brother on the weekend he gave me four more boxes of Papas slides to scan in, and I've done about 500 so far. And papa was a terrible speller and thats tiring as well.  But there are some beauties I must say.

So I'm looking forward to 5pm when I can sit back with a glass of wine and watch antiques roadshow. lol, sad but true. I love that show. I love seeing the look on someones face when they find out the bowl that the dogs been eating out of for the past ten years is worth a few thousand pounds.

So I shall share a few slides that I found and liked. These were taken in Ireland in 1965.

This is Papa. In his harry high pants. I thought you were supposed to kiss the blarney stone.

 

 

And here are some hardy little Galway girls.

 

 

And these ones were taken near galway as well

 

 

 

This would have been taken in the fifties. When Dad first moved to Australia he found work on an orange farm

 

 

Papa took this one in 1957. These were the streamers coming from the cruise ship when it left Melbourne with Nan and Papa on it.

 

 

Hong Kong - 1964

 

 

This I think is in England so would be 1957

 

 

Trinidad - 1957

 

Papas slidebox. Bit of a mix here.

Planes. I really wish they'd stop falling out of the sky. I'm going to have a bugger of a time getting Daz and Kimba to Thailand at the end of the year. She flew to the Whitsundays this morning (poor dear), and sent me a text at 10am saying she was having a wine to calm her nerves.

 

Road trains. All over the roads in Australia. Huge long bloody things that are impossible to overtake.

 

And automobiles. Downtown Los Angeles 1964.

 

castlereagh street sydney 1952 - taken from The Australia Hotel roof

Bobbin Head

Circular Quay Sydney - under heavy smoke.

Bill - been shearing for thirty years - taken in 1952

Australian black and white photos taken by papa in 1952. Last time I saw Mum she gave me one of papa's photo albums she'd found. She said to take them and scan them because they were deteriorating. Some of them had blotchy markings on them and she told me to take them out of the album and give them a good wash under the tap. Well she did work with Papa in his studio so I assumed she knew what she was talking about, even though it sounded frightening. So wash away I did, but not all of them came clean and I did manage to leave a rubber glove print on one. She tells me just to wash it again.

A lot of these were taken on our farm. Which was Papa and his brother Hammy's farm at this time.

a good old australian gum tree

 

nice little kanagaroo face

 

browns cows

 

 

bushmans camp

 

 

a four leaf clover, taken in 1965 in Sweden - as it says - near Linkoping

not sure how near

 

These could be Papas Slidebox, or they could be from my mothers slidebox. I've already given Papa credit for one of mums photos.

So these were taken in Guernsey, in about 1974, by one of them.