Although this isn't Poncho related the photos are great. These photos document a fellow from Ste Rose, Quebec who drove his 1958 Dodge Mayfair across Canada and the US in 1961. He must have been a car guy as (like me) he managed to get the Dodge in every shot! The quality of the photos is quite good. Here are some of the highlights:
Dig the pennants taped to the bumper. No way this car guy is going to stick on a bumper sticker!
The Mayfair is a Canadian built Dodge. It consisted of a Dodge front clip and a Plymouth Body. The side trim was Plymouth. It's similar to the 58 Plymouth Belvedere Sport Sedan that I used to own:
The American 58 Dodge looked like this:
-- Edited by Canadian Poncho on Sunday 19th of January 2014 04:13:53 PM
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
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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.
Also note the center dividing line is white, where as the shoulder lines are yellow. I remember that as a kid, they changed in the lat 60's to yellow center dividing line, and white shoulders.
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.