I'm not sure who these are. Highway patrol perhaps? BTW, you'll see in most of these pics that the center of the pic is the most in focus, and the fringes (usually the sides, but sometimes the top and bottom) are out-of-focus. This is deliberate. My dad was playing around with a "pan effect" in these photos. I'm not sure how he did that.
5 comments:
This looks like the same general area looking toward 3rd and State kind of SW toward what was most recently Dollar General. But it looks like the marchers are going the opposite direction of other pictures. Maybe this group did an about face in drills?? But the flags are out in front of a band. Who knows? mick........
Hi Mick. You're right about the marchers; this pic smacks of being reversed. Since the original is a pic and not a slide, I know I got it right. Its possible my Dad was already developing his own photos by this time, and for some reason got this one switched around.
Star Date : Epilog. I'm now pretty sure I'm worng about the "pan effect" being something my Dad was deliberately doing. For some reason, lots of pictures from this time period (and by other photographers) have this phenomenon. I'm thinking now its just something inherent in 1930's camera technology.
Again from my Item research, there was a parade (June 30, 1930) that actually passed 3rd & State three times in one day! They were really into parades back then. This one was to celebrate the inauguration of Hamburg's new American Legion Post, so this may have been a drum & bugle corps.
Janet
Oh wow! I love it when a precise date can be put on an event in the distant past. Thanks to Google and the Internet, I've managed to do that with a couple of concerts (Pink Floyd and Bruce Springsteen) that I saw way way back in 1972.
Post a Comment