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- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
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Christmas 1959
In 1959, my engineer father was, as his expression shows, not happy that a part to my brother's new magic set was not working by late Christmas morning. This was my second picture with the Argus C-Twenty camera I received that day so long ago. For $29.95, the camera kit came with one 20-exposure roll of Kodachrome daylight, six No. 5 blue flashbulbs, plug-in flash gun, and a slide previewer. My parents spent an extra $4.79 for the top-grain leather case. For some reason, they never discarded the Fall-Winter 1959 Montgomery-Ward catalog in which the camera was featured. The catalog is now in my home. The camera served me well through high school, college and beyond. View full size.
Lead tinsel!
Great stuff! Toxic and beautiful. Our cats specialized in gobbling it down, and then it would reappear a day or two later . . .
Binocularity
My dad came back from Japan with a pair of binoculars, and they are still in that same case on my bookcase. They have "Made in Occupied Japan" stamped on them.
What a great dad!
God bless him.
$29.95 in 1959 is serious money.
And God bless the doggie hoping for scraps, with at least a slice of Christmas ham.
The dog...
seems to be more interested in the magic on the plate of whoever is sitting at the table.
An Argus C20
My parents bought the same camera in 1958 or '59. My dad used it once - the pictures didn't come out and the camera was put away until I found it in 1974. I took it with us when we visited my mom's family in Chicago. Only a handful of the pictures survive today, but I still have the camera, flash & manual in storage.
Ornamentalist
You can mostly make out your shape in the reflection in the ornament. Awesome!
And the catalog...
The catalog! What would it take to get you to scan and publish that?
Double Vision
Looks like somebody got a pair of binoculars for Christmas. I got a pair for Christmas when I was eleven, and I still use them, almost 40 years later.
Are we related??
Gosh, your dad and mine could have been brothers! And he was very handy too. What a great photo! Do you have more from this special roll?
The kitchen
The dog sitting at the table is great! Some things will never change.
Forward Into the Past
Hope we'll see many more of the pictures from that Argus that served you so well!
I know how he feels
Being a parent, I think I was usually more upset than my son if something I bought for him did not work right.
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