Prompted by CC's "Faded but Still Vibrant" post

[Blue_In_AK]

I've finally done something I've been meaning to do for some time -- had these photos scanned so I can share them with you all.

These are pictures that my dad took and developed in his little darkroom about 60 years ago.

This is my brother Kenny who was killed in a hunting accident in 1954 when he was 15.


My brother Marvin putting on his roller skates


Little Blue_in_AK :)


And this one is my favorite. I had it professionally restored a few years ago. It doesn't have quite the drama of the original, but it had deteriorated quite a bit. I just love this picture of my two big brothers. This was probably taken before I was born or when I was an infant. This is the farm I lived on in southern Ohio until I was seven.

[Mz Pip]

1. Wonderful old pics

and that last one is quite dramatic as it is.

I have a small suitcase of old family photos - some over a hundred years old. This inspires me to dig them out and crank up the scanner.

... you were a very cute little kid. :-)

Mz Pip

[Celebration]

2. These are outstanding

Nice to see Little Blue and siblings............

I think I am going to ask my sister for our old family pictures and slides. They aren't doing anything with them.

My dad did not live long enough. He would have loved digital photography. He was one of those people that actually asked friends over to look at slides from our vacations.

:rofl:

[Mira]

3. I bet you posted these with a stitch of sorrow and a bunch of pride.

Your favorite is simply heart rending.
They are all so memorable, and you were as cute as can be.
I had a thought that this will turn into many of us digging out old photos, and sure enough both the other comments say just that, so I won't.
I'll just do it.
:)

[CC]

4. Love the photos and you were

so cute, no wonder you have such adorable grandsons. That last one is one of those photos that could be bought and hung on anyone's wall as an art piece but means even more when it is your siblings and taken by your dad. Now burn those scans to CD and send one to each of your kids and any niece's or nephews. Cheap enough to do, they will love having them and is a great way to keep copies spread around just in case of disaster.

[Sheepshank]

5. I loved those

....without any captions they have "Americana" written all over them.

I'm not originally from the US and it's how each of those pictures affected me.

[elleng]

6. Great pics and stories, Blue,

Have just come upon some old family pics.

WHERE in S. Ohio? (Attended college in Oxford, and in-laws from Dayton.)

[Blue_In_AK]

7. Between Wilmington and Xenia.

Outside Gurneyville, if that little berg is even still there.

[Johnny Noshoes]

8. That last one...

wow - just wow.

[JeffR]

9. Glimpses of a lost world.

Your dad had one hell of an eye. That last one is classic Americana, really splendid.

How nice to know that adorable little girl grew up to grace us all with her own photography.

[alfredo]

10. I see where you got your "eye."