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Mr. Wentworth and Students …
This is Mr. Wentworth talking to several local high school students. I do not recognize the students or the setting. I remember my father remarking several times how Mr. Wentworth would spend time with high school students that would show interest in local history. Notice the dagger or cross on his desk that he used for a paper weight … I can assure you that having something like that on your desk today would be politically incorrect, especially if you were a teacher in the school system in 2013!! That would just be an invitation for a student to pick it up and stab a fellow inmate … I mean student. Thanks for looking and let us hear your comments … Frank
Las Javenas …
I am not sure the year on these photos, but I would guess that they were made in 1956 or 1957. I do not know any of these girls, but one or two look vaguely familiar. Las Javenas sorority was group that put on the Noel Dance for thirty years or so and it was always the largest of the Christmas dances.
Thanks for looking and please check back … Frank
1957 World Series Tickets …
Here are two tickets from the 1957 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Milwaukee Braves. The Braves defeated the Yankees 4 games to 3. This was first time that a team had moved to a new town and won the series. The Braves had moved from Boston in 1953 and it was the first pennant ( National ) for them in Milwaukee and the first World Series for a team that had relocated to a new city. Notice the price … $7.35!! I bet you could get a hot dog for a quarter and a beer for a dime back in 1957.
Even though these are not my father’s and do not really have anything to do with his photography, I still thought that they were interesting. If anybody out there attended either of these two games in New York or any of the others in Milwaukee, we would be interested in hearing from you. I would even like to hear from you if you watched it on tv …NBC had the broadcast rights for the World Series this year. Who knows, they might have even paid some huge amount like $50,000 for the rights to broadcast the entire series! I would even venture a guess that Mickey Mantle did not make more than thirty or forty thousand dollars in 1957. Let us hear from you baseball historians out there and thanks for looking … Frank
Mad Men or Ad Men ?
I do not have a clue who either of these two guys are. I found the negatives in an envelope for Jarrard Motors, so I guess they were scarred of high car prices back in the 1950’s. I wish I could find the ad that these were used in …
I am at a loss for words, so I guess that I had better let these photos speak for themselves. Here is the last one from this series of photos … I guess that whatever the first guy did turned the situation around and now he is ready to pull out his wallet and spend his hard earned money …
Another satisfied customer … I do not know about you, but after looking at these photos, I just want to go out and buy something, anything to get this economy moving again. Who knows, you might see these photos in the presidential campaign for one of the candidates … either one, does not bother me, just as long as their check does not bounce! The only color I recognize is green. So Obama or Romney, does not bother me a bit … highest bidder gets to use these sure-fire vote getting photos in their campaign. I can be reached at 850-449-1279 … please no local politicos … these are too valuable for local politics. Thanks for looking … Frank
Pete Fountain …
Pete Fountain must have been in Pensacola giving a concert when this was made, so as usual, I do not have an exact date on this photo, but judging from how young they both look, it might have been made in the 1950’s. I have a photo I made years ago of Pete Fountain leading a parade down Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras back in the 1980’s over on my “Frank Hardy Photo Blog” site, if you are interested. I tried to create a link for it, but never could get it to work.
One more thing, I want to thank everyone at the Pensacola News Journal for the nice article that they wrote in this blog back on Sunday, August 19, 2012. Troy Moon wrote a very nice article and photo-journalist Katie King added some nice photographs. Here is a link to a gallery that the PNJ created of some photographs that I gave them for the article. I do not know if they have the actual article archived, but you can check. Thanks again for looking and commenting … Frank
Frank Hardy Studio … Scotland?
Someone ran across my blog from England earlier this month and emailed me asking if I had any relatives in Scotland that were photographers. He then went on to say that he had a family photograph made in Saltcoats Scotland and on the back is a stamp by a Frank Hardy from Promenade Studio, Saltcoats. The photo was made back in the 1940’s and it was from a time that they had taken a vacation trip to Scotland. Then he emailed me the front and back side of his photograph and I want to share them with you below:
As you can see, it is a nice portrait of a family on vacation … I like the painted backdrop that was used to show the ocean in background. These types of portraits were very popular in these resort towns around the world. In fact, it looks as if it could have been in Atlantic City New Jersey or some place like that in America. The man who emailed me this asked if this Frank Hardy could be any relation to me and I told him that I seriously doubt it. If anyone reading this blog ever runs across any other Hardy’s from Scotland, I would be interested in hearing from them, since this is the first time that I have heard of any. When Pam and I went to Ireland several years back, I inquired around, but did not find any.
Thanks again for looking and as usual, all comments are welcome …
Votech in Pensacola …
I have never posted these images before … mainly because I did not know anything about the images. My first inclination was to bring up the Ice-Cube movies that I thought were funny, but then I decided against it and just let the images speak for themselves. Below is the other one …
I wish I knew where these were made … school, class, students, etc, but as usual I have no idea about either of the images. If anyone has any information, please share it with us. Thanks for looking …
Frank Hardy Made My Photographs Two 
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