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A friend of mine and I "enjoy" 3-D on television in 1982, when there was a boomlet of local stations showing 3-D films such as "Creature from the Black Lagoon" using the anaglyph method, which used red and blue lenses to separate the images rather than the polarized system originally used in the theaters thirty years earlier. I say "enjoy" because the effect was problematic. If you had your color adjusted correctly it was possible to get a moderate dimensional effect out of the blur. With my never-rectified amblyopia, I could get it mostly when things were flying at the camera.

We're watching it on my Advent VideoBeam, no longer in the basement of my folks' house, but in my new digs in Petaluma. Fans of the yellow lamp will notice that it's already starting to deteriorate, the hinge holding the middle shade being secured with duct tape. Another indication of the absence of parental caregiving is the burst cushion of my red chair. Other necessary video room adjuncts visible are Ritz Crackers, a TV Guide (is that Farrah Fawcett?) and shelves full of Betamax tapes. Oh, and under my chair a metal file box storing my card catalog of said tapes. The blue binder contains a hand-typed list of just the cartoons. Computerization of the collection was still four years in the future.

Scanned from a print from a friend's 110 camera. View full size.

Main Street in Downtown Racine, Wisconsin about 1905. Scanned from the original glass negative in my possession. City Hall is the building with a clock and bell tower. View full size.

This Picture was Taken on Walnut Street, East Liverpool, Ohio in the Early 1950's. The fellow on the far right is Chuck Kennedy, and to the left of him is my father, Ed Bowyer.

The car business is not the same today as it was then. I remember the secrecy involved with the new car showings every year, and how we, as kids growing up in the fifties, had so much fun seeing the new models. View full size.

My Grandparents in Germany, 1924, two years before they married. This was not long after they met, she was 18 and he was 26.

My Mother (middle) at her confirmation in West Germany, 1953. View full size.

Grandpa Frank Hallack is in the middle here with his local bowling league during the late 1940's in Los Angeles. I don't know which one was his team, likely though not PMS. View full size.

I think the dapper fellow on the far right is/was my father, Jessie C. Hayes, b. 1909. He left the farm for Chicago as soon as he could, then came back to this area about the time of this photo before meeting and marrying our mother. View full size.