Archive for the ‘Frank Hardy Photography’ Category
California Bungalow …
I have found some more negatives recently from one of my father’s trips out to California in the 1940’s and 50’s to visit his sister, Lucille. I have no idea about the history behind these two images, other than the fact that they were made somewhere in California … could be Los Angeles, maybe Modesto … who knows. But it looks like the type of place that you would find Humphrey Bogart walking out of after received a call in the middle of the night from an unknown stranger that said he would find a blond hair starlet lying dead across the bed if he went to this bungalow off of Sunset Boulevard. I guess that I have read too many detective novels or have seen too many black and white films form the 1950’s. Here is one more view …
Maybe someone out there might recognize where this is … I have really been surprised of all of the people from Modesto California that have viewed this site and commented about certain areas in the past. This place just looks like a generic photo of a California motel / apartment from the 1950’s, so I do know really expect much. I is just fun to speculate and imagine some story behind these old photographs. Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
Romana Street in the 1950’s …
This panorama was made in the 1950’s, not sure of the exact year. This is looking west on Romana Street toward downtown Pensacola. On the left side of the street you see a Pittsburgh Paint Shop and then you have the Pensacola News Journal Building which takes you to the end of the block. Across the street is the Morrison Cafeteria building. I have some posts earlier where I show some interior shots of the kitchen and the table areas. Then I had several exterior viewsof Morrison’s before they renovated later. Local businessman Quint Studer has just purchased the Pensacola News Journal building and is planning to tear it down. I believe an article in the local PNJ in the last week or so said that he plans on constructing housing in it’s place and possibly some offices. Pensacola is really going to be going through some new changes in the next few years … we will just have to wait and see how all of this pans out. I am still not convinced that what was done to the end of Palafox Street was worth tearing down the old Municipal Auditorium. Most of the buildings that they built at the end seem vacant, however they are very nice and attractive. Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
First Methdist Musicians …
This is a group of musicians from First Methodist Church in downtown Pensacola Florida on Wright Street from the 1950’s. I believe that the organist’s name is Morrison, but I am not positive about that. None of the other musicians look vaguely familiar. Here is one more of the group …
I know that someone out there will see this and let us know who they are, it just might take a little time. Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
New Composite From Old Photos …
I made a composite of some of my photos over on my site last week and posted it … have had some positive comments, so I decided to create with my father’s images. Also, where I put less than sixty photos, I decided to put several hundred on his ( the one above ). The main problem was that I did not realize how long that this project would take … I am too embarrassed to say how many hours that I have to this piece. My only saving grace was that I got myself a Spotify account and I have found more new music that I never knew existed to entertain myself will I worked on this compilation. The composite is by no way perfect and it has a lot of flaws that I hope people will overlook because of the shear number of images that I have put on this piece. That is no rhyme or reason how I put all of these together and there is no structure or organization to any of it, except to make it fit without any large gaps between the photos in any direction. The image is sized to 10×8 and I do not know if it will show up as an 10×8 on this WordPress Blog. Like I said on the other one that I created with my images … if you click on the image, it should open the image up by itself in another window. If you click on the Ctrl Key while you click on the (+) key, the image should enlarge in increments of around 25% with each click. Try it and let me know. That is all for now … I hope everyone had a safe and happy holidays … Please feel free to comment and if you have any questions, ask. Also, please feel free share this link with all of your friends. They do not have to be from the area, I just hope that they are interested in photographs from the past. Thanks … Frank
Just A Reminder …
Just a reminder for you to check out my photo blog, FrankHardyPhotoBlog.com . Even though I have been using WordPress for several years now, there are still things that I cannot figure out how to do. I just think that most people know my blog, but I have a lot of people look at this blog that do not know me personally. They do not know to go to my site and check out my posts. So I just thought that I would put a reminder in a post with a link and then I could direct some traffic over there. I get only a small fraction of the number of hits that I receive on this site and I just want to try to increase my readers over on my photography blog. Nothing earth-shattering, but a few new viewers would be nice. Thanks again for looking and let me know if you have any questions or if something does not work for you … Frank
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