New Mexico to Kansas to Massachusetts - FOUND FILM

<p>A continuation of the Lenexa post.</p>

<p><a href="http://westfordcomp.com/foundfilm/lenexa/roll78plenachrome/plenachrome.html">HERE</a></p>

<p>Love them.</p>

<p>I hope you know how much one of your posts brightens things up for many of us. Thanks very much.</p>

<p>The truck says New Mexico on it, and the license plate is NM too. I would have thought maybe an old Kodak Jiffy 620, but I can attest that 120 film doesn't just fit into them either.</p>

<p>I did all my first photography with a Jiffy, in fact, and developed the Verichrome in the kitchen at night, and printed the pictures on a contact printer box. So the film also has a fond place in my heart as well.</p>

<p>The truck says Ruidoso, NM. Ruidoso is still a small town, if you discount all the damn Texasans that show up on weekends. I bet the Chamber of Commerce could track down the person on the truck if his family is still there.</p>

<p>They're not.</p>

<p>Great stuff. Reminds me of when my cousins and I got together at my grandparents farm. We<br>

had a ball. I was sitting in my front yard drinking some old grape juice and did not see or<br>

hear any kids playing.</p>

<p>I did some sleuthing too. There is a Raymond Buckner Drive in the town and this maybe one of the children in the photo. The company name failed to turn up anything. Genealogy searching found nothing on John O. Buckner but I may have hit on a family relative in Lincoln county. So I emailed your address for the photos to them. It was a long shot but you never know if that will make the connection.</p>

<p>CHEERS...Mathew</p>

<p>Thanks for these posts, Gene. Like JDMVW, I love these posts and find the pictures fascinating for a variety of reasons.</p>

<p>Nothing wrong with a little pontification, <strong>Gene</strong>...I grew up in a yard like that and I still have the scars to prove it. A nice blend of history and nostalgia, as usual. Thanks for the post.</p>

<p>Please refrain from attempts to contact people after performing amateur detective work on this particular found film.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>Actually, I have no plans to do anything more. It was an interesting exercize and would have taken a lot more research to connect the film to descendants. It was one of the few postings you have done that would have the potential for identifying the people within the images.</p>

<p>While my efforts may have annoyed you, your write-up with the photos did not mention if you had tried to connect to the extended family. At the time I did the work there were no feedback messages at photo.net but I found your statement later that they no longer lived there. This might be potentially true under the man's original name. However the girls might have married and changed their names but still be living in the area.</p>

<p>I do a huge amount of long-term research for publication and am a published author. So using "amateur" in your sentence without you knowing anything about me is insulting. Second to this, you also have no right to forbid me anything along these lines.</p>

<p>Lastly, I do like your work at recovering images from aged film. It is interesting that you are able to connect so many to individual events or areas. This is an interesting hobby for you and entertaining for the rest of us.</p>

<p>Sincerely, Mathew Hargreaves</p>

<p>Please refrain from amateur detective work on this particular found film.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>Gene M</p>

<p>Bikes were never more tangible than this. They remind me of those bike advertisements we used to see in American magazines (in the 1950's UK), Superman, Batman etc. The bikes seemed ridiculously cheap, even in dollars. The little tricycle in front of the truck is lovely.</p>

<p>So now I have to go looking through my box of BHFs to see if there's a BH lurking in there? I know I have the plastic shield for the flash, I wasn't aware of the danger though. I suppose I should have been, because that was my favorite toy as a child and my parents would occasionally buy me film. Come to think of it, they never gave me flashbulbs.</p>