I love the colors of the car      gives me a idea to add orange stripes to my winter beater Yukon    Its almost the same pewter color

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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cdnpont wrote:

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Thanks for posting these great images Todd, gives me a new puzzle to find where the pictures were taken on Google Street view.

Lets make it a game. I'll start...

 

 

Highway 3 and 5a junction, Princeton BC...

 

 

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 That is not FAIR.....    I don't know how to do that    

Nice photos.

Cool pics Todd.I knew the Princeton pic,sure has changed.The fifth pick is also hwy 3(crowsnest hwy)going down anarchist mt. heading into osoyoos b.c.,couple others look familiar,can place them though.

-- Edited by 1964Canso on Sunday 19th of January 2014 04:17:36 PM

Great pictures and I bet it was a great trip. Could have been Lefty's brother with that many pictures of his car! Thanks for sharing.

pic 4 looks like hastings st,around Richards ?? looking west.hotel vanc. in background green roof??????

photo 20, where he's parked along the guardrail beside the lake in the mountains looks like "Lac des Arc" just east of Canmore Alberta.  It looks the same today, but is now a divided highway.

That's a bit odd, as it looks like he took highway 3 from Medicine Hat to Vancouver, that's the long way.   It looks shorter on paper but takes a lot longer.   I'd say the Welcome to BC sign is again along highway 3 just west of Crowsnest Pass, the mountains are much smaller there.

1964Canso wrote:

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pic 4 looks like hastings st,around Richards ?? looking west.hotel vanc. in background green roof??????

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X2. Not only that but they are in colour, which was extravagant for the time.

The photos are indeed very good in subject matter, composition and quality. All of the photos from the late 50's 60's and 70's taken in our family are like this so this is not really extravagant to me. My father owned a 35 mm Kodak camera and it took outstanding photos like these. In fact I see the camera box on the trunk of the car in one photo so he used the same camera. My father always developed the film into slides and that is how we viewed them as a family. it was a big deal waiting for the Kodak box to arrive in the mail so we could see them. On occasion glossy prints would be developed from the slides of those special pictures. As wedding gift my dad developed a huge selection of slides into prints and made up albums for me from our family trips and gatherings.

Really special that someone had the foresight, and resources, to capture their trip in so many pictures.
I too remember having to send out our films to be developed and then waiting anxiously for their return.