While cleaning out the garage this week (I have the best stay-at-home vacations!), I came across some fun artifacts.
First up: my dad was a professional photographer, and I guess he also shot home movies (pleasedon’tturnouttobeBobCrane):
The item on the left is a Bolex Paillard P3 Zoom Reflex 8mm camera, c. 1963-4. The item on the right is a Flip video camera, c. 2008.
Looking this up online, I find that people still shoot with this Bolex; I should read more to find out how they justify using it instead of our various video and hard-drive based options. Were the lenses that much better then?
More to come . . .
I love your photo of the empty garage at #10 – last time it was that clean was February 24th, 1968 – the day we moved in!!
You mean this one? I really know how to live it up during my vacations, huh?
And Dad tells me he picked it up during a trip you guys took to Switzerland. Any idea when that was? He remembers taking a train to Basel solo to buy it, but I don’t recall where he says you were staying. This would’ve been 1964, I think.
actually early February 1965 – because Nyman died we postponed the wedding until after the “shloshim” (30 days) until Feb.28th so we went to Switzerland for a week instead –
to a place called Braunwald in the mountains, no cars, no engines of any kind, and of course that was even before snowmobiles were created/invented – imagine total quiet –
the hotel sent staff with dog sleds to the train station to haul guests’ luggage up the mountain –
and Andy took a day to return to Basel to make watch/camera purchases –
I don’t know why I said Basel – I meant ZURICH – you take a train from Zurich to a place called Ziegelbrucke, and then a funicular train up the mountain to Braunwald –
and of course Andy went back to Zurich (not Basel) when he went camera/watch shopping and did some banking with the gnomes at the same time –