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 I suppose some of this sort of thing still goes on...but not much I would guess. In 1962, one of the candidates for the US Congress from our local district encouraged folks to come out and meet him by having an old fashioned calliope (steam powered organ, I guess, would be sort of description) on a trailer go from neighborhood to neighborhood and attract attention. This candidate (last name was Robinson) set his calliope up in our driveway for an evening. From the pictures in the album, most of the people in the crowd were far too young to vote, so I'm not sure what the candidate may have gotten out of it other than some local buzz of interest...but in politics sometimes that is all you need anyway. Photographically, my father must have been having technical issues with his camera because all of the shots in this series are double exposed a bit because the film was not advancing (or was not advanced by him) enough between pictures. On the old Welta Weltax that he was using at that time, there was an optional 4.5x6 mask that he may have thought was inserted but instead he was shooting without the mask to 6x6. Just a guess on my part as to why the film was double exposed. Posted by forgingahead | Comment (1) Category: People, Dad's Shots Links: forgingahead Main Site Archives: People (75), Family (77), My Shots (120), Dad's Shots (128), Places I Have Lived (32), Places I Have Visited (64), Archaeology (23) | |
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