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CAMERAS + PHOTOGRAPHERS = PHOTOS

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  My first ever camera was a little Kodak Brownie like this one. One of the first pictures I took with my new Kodak Brownie was this one of my beloved and first ever parakeet, Tipi-Tin. A few years later I wanted a camera that could take flash pictures allowing me to photograph people and things inside as well as out, so I asked Santa for this Kodak Starmite camera.  One summer I decided to try using my Dad’s old bellows camera but I didn’t do well with it.  I kept forgetting to manually advance the film and was taking double – even triple – exposures all the time.  They were interesting, but not exactly what I was hoping for and I didn’t know it was happening until I had the film developed so much of what I thought I was getting preserved on film was not.  That was a ‘too bad’ summer. Following the fiasco with Dad’s bellows camera, I bought myself Kodak’s skinny 110 model which worked much better. Next up was Kodak’s Advantix 2000 which took even better picture...
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B IS FOR BANANA

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  A is for Apples, baked with brown sugar and cinnamon. B is for Bananas, especially paired with peanut butter. C is for Corn on the cob sprinkled with salt & drenched in melted butter. D is for doughnuts - plain cake or old fashioned - dipped in my coffee. My Dad and I both worked across the bay in San Francisco.  Although we commuted to work on different buses, we rode the same bus home - getting off near a local coffee shop where we'd meet my Mom to have coffee and doughnuts before heading home - Mom and Dad to the family home, and me, to my apartment.  It was a special time and a great way to catch up on what was happening with both of them and the rest of my family still living at home. :) E is for eggs - deviled. F is for French fries – crisp, hot, salted & peppered!  No  ketchup. G is for Guacamole! H is for Hawaiian pizza. I is for Irish Cream lattes at Schnoog’s Coffee Shop on Friday  afternoons. J is for Jack cheese, creamy, with peppers....
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THE FIRST AUTOMOBILES

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  Fellows posing in an early version of the automobile. The 1900 Victor automobile The Robinson Gasoline Carriage. The Winton two-seated surrey. A three-seater version of the yet-to-come station wagon? Friends out for a drive in their 1902 automobile My husband’s Graandmother, Lillian Ross Pringle Brasier, driving the family car in the early 1900s. Forerunner of the double-decker bus? Exploring the Grand Canyon in an early vehicle. Some drivers liked to chance death!. The first car allowed into Yosemite National Park was a steam-powered Locomobile driven by Oliver Lippincott in 1900 by way of the Wawona Road.  Cars, however, were not formally permitted in the Park until 1913 when Park Ranger, Forest Townsley, issued the first automobile permit.  Oliver is seen here in his car perched precariously on Overhanging Rock at Glacier Point.  I'm guessing that's his wife standing in the background, keeping free of the vehicle which might have plunged 3000 feet to the Valley ...
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