Route 66, 2007 - Photo Presentation

[doug grosjean]

Hi all,

 

I'm giving a presentation on Route 66, at the Pemberville Public Library tomorrow

night. More info below my sig.

 

Most of the photos were taken with a 1950s 35mm Widelux, and a 1900s Kodak

Panoram; which made me debate a bit about whether I should post in this forum

or in the Classic Camera forum.

 

Would enjoy seeing some of you there. The photos are good, trust me... :):)

 

The speaker ain't bad, either. ;);)

 

Best,

Doug Grosjean

Pemberville, Ohio

 

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From:

http://www.presspublications.com/pages/entertainment04.asp

 

On May 6 at 7 p.m., Pemberville Library will host local

author/photographer, Doug Grosjean, who will discuss travelling the

full length of Route 66 last July in a Jeep with his 12-year old son,

Jean-Luc.

 

Along the way, the duo visited sites made famous in the movie "Cars,"

followed several abandoned segments and former alignments of Route 66

in each state that the route passed through and bonded as fathers and

sons do on big adventures.

 

The presentation will include over 120 photos taken by Grosjean of

well-known Route 66 icons, over half with antique panoramic cameras; a

discussion of maps and guidebooks used and a question-and-answer

session afterward.

 

The library is located at 375 E Front Street; call 419-287-4012 for more

information.

[steve_levine]

If I weren't 700 miles away I'd show myself. How about scanning and posting some shots?

[doug grosjean]

Steve,

 

A few are posted, at URL below, but just a few:

 

http://s60.photobucket.com/albums/h33/DougGrosjean/Route%2066%20-%202007/

 

Time is the reason. Too many other irons in the fire to spend time putting the entire 120-image slide show online.

[david_m]

I'm far from Ohio in Arizona, what is the point of posting a notice like that here?

[doug grosjean]

David M: Several reasons:

 

1. Many of the shots were taken with cameras from 50-100 y/o.

2. When I've posted some of those shots over in Classic Camera, people have wanted to see more.

3. By posting, local P'netters could come on by and have a look.

4. I've seen other shows posted here that are too far for me to attend....

 

Now that I look at the subject line, I realize that a better way would have been to include my location in Ohio so I didn't waste people's time. I'm sorry for that, an oversight on my part. Normally I would have included the location in the subject, but I was in a hurry.

[david_henderson]

Did you find Elmer's bottle-tree farm between Barstow and Victorville?

[nancy s.]

Yeah Steve, we have been to most of these places he shows and have the images to prove it..

[doug grosjean]

David: We saw the bottle-tree farm, but did not stop there. By then we'd been on the road about 18 days, been on TV in Oklahoma City (Google KOCO 5, Route 66 Center if interested), done quite a bit of hiking along the way, and had traveled at least 100 miles on dirt roads.

 

Nancy: Not having the pics online doesn't mean they don't exist. A handful have been posted here already, in the Classic Camera forum, since they were shot with swing-lens panos that are quite a bit older than I am.

 

Here's a smattering of images that I had handy, neither the best nor the worst pics from the trip, and just a sliver. The other 110 or so I'll show are pretty consistent with these in terms of quality. Yes, the lens on the 105 y/o Panoram is a tiny bit soft. Shrug. I prefer it over the 50 y/o Widelux FV when the light is right:

 

Meteor Crater, Arizona; a full 360-degree shot:

 

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h33/DougGrosjean/Route%2066%20-%202007/CRATER-MERGED-10OCT07.jpg

 

IIRC, Geronimo's Trading Post in eastern Arizona, near Petrified

Forest, with a 100 y/o Kodak:

 

 

Western terminus of Route 66, same wooden Kodak:

 

 

On the return, here's our Jeep and campsite at the top of "Hole in the Rock", the fabled Mormon wagon trail to Bluff via the Canyonlands, wooden Kodak - about 60 miles offroad here:

 

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h3...g?t=1197768830

 

We took a Jeep, my 12 y/o son and I, and then followed the oldest (sometimes fully abandoned) alignments where we could, such as following the Jericho Gap (TX) as far as we could, and heading up La Bajada Hill in NM, on the pre-1932 Santa Fe alignment. Hiked down the steep trail from Acoma Pueblo, hiked part of the rim of the Meteor Crater, hiked into the Grand Canyon a couple miles, took the (dirt) Senator Hwy. 70 miles into Phoenix from Prescott.

[doug grosjean]

Crap - the method I've used elsewhere to post an image via /img tags doesn't work here. And two of the addys were truncated.

 

Here's a better selection, from an older thread, if curious. I think all of these are swing-lens images:

 

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00O1Dl