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Missing things

David Braverman — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:15:27 GMT

The slide scanning project is almost done. I'm right now scanning the end of 1998, right around when I switched to digital cameras. Here are three from the mid-1990s showing bits of Chicago that no longer exist.

First, in this view from the Sears Tower, you can see Meigs Field and Soldier Field, both since destroyed:

Vermont, Part 2

David Braverman — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:02:15 GMT

Autumn in the Green Mountain State:

Three more after the jump.

Ghosts of campaigns past

David Braverman — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:59:08 GMT

During the few months I lived in Vermont, Bill Clinton got elected President. He spoke at one big rally that year, up in Burlington, and thanks to a press pass from a friend at a radio station, I got to see him in person:

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Vermont, part 1

David Braverman — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:33:22 GMT

Few people knew before, you know, this blog entry, that I lived in Vermont for a few months in 1992. (I was young, I needed the work.) Actually, it was the most beautiful place I've lived. That said, I grew up in one big city and went to college in another, so the things that made Vermont beautiful were precisely those things that made it difficult for me to live there: wide open spaces, trees, idyllic rural living, etc.

I moved back to Chicago in short order, but not after taking a few hundred photos. These, for example, I took in Middlebury, where I lived at the time:

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Scotland

David Braverman — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:34:25 GMT

More photos from 1992. Taking the Kyle of Lochalsh train from Inverness through the Scottish highlands capped the trip. I took three rolls of film in as many hours. (We didn't have digital cameras back then, so each photo, with processing, cost about 35c—the equivalent of about 70c today—so those three rolls represent about $75 of today's dollars.)

Here are three of those shots:

(You know the rest. This means you, JLF.)

Le sud de France

David Braverman — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:29:49 GMT

The trip I took in 1992 went from West Sussex, England, to Nice, France; Genève, Switzerland; Strasbourg, France; then back to the U.K. As I continue the (excruciatingly slow) process of scanning all these slides, I'll continue to post the better ones. Like these, the first from Nice:

(More, of course, on the original post...)

My first trip to Europe

David Braverman — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:04:22 GMT

Like many Americans, I backpacked through Europe right after graduating from college, in the summer of 1992. I've been scanning all of my slides, gradually, for a couple of years in fact, and I'm now up to that Europe trip. (The trip starts on slide #2362, and I'm just today up to slide #2500.)

Here are two. First, Chichester Cathedral, England:

(As usual, full size and the other photo after the jump.)

Old photos: New York 1984

David Braverman — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:30:48 GMT

I'm still scanning all my old photos, now up to slide #964 of 3,828 (not including the 176 rolls of negatives). In addition to the embarrassing photos of me as a gangly teenager, and embarrassing photos of my family (complete with 1980s hair and clothes), I've also found some of general interest, like these two of New York in July 1984:

Walking the dog

David Braverman — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:50:19 GMT

Reggie (below) gets to walk on or near a beach almost every day. Today I got to tag along.