Posts Tagged ‘Pensacola’
And Now, A Word From Our Sponsor …
And that would be me … I had these framed images on display in a restaurant in downtown Pensacola that closed recently. There are around twenty of these framed prints and I am looking to sell them. Most are 16×20 prints, matted to 20×24 with a black metal frame and glass. A few are 20×24 prints, matted to 24×28 and framed in black metal. There are also one or two 11×14’s matted to 16×20 and framed the same way. Here is one more print …
These two just happen to be from parades, but some of the others are the San Carlos Hotel, Aerial view of downtown Pensacola in the 1950’s, etc, etc. You can call me on my cell phone at 850-449-1279 or email me at: frankphardy@gmail.com and I will be happy to tell you what I have printed and obviously all of the images shown on this site can be printed and framed. Below, is an example of a print mounted on canvas … I know I have shown these before. but this is one I received back from the lab on Friday that I thought looked very well done. The first is the image that I sent to the lab …
Next are several of the print back from the lab …
And now one of the side showing how the canvas is wrapped around the stretcher frame …
Please note: The image that I sent to the lab was scaled to the dimensions of a 35mm camera and the print is a 16×20. So, when the image is cropped to print, you loose some of the image off the bottom and off the sides. If I would have made the print 16×24, it would have printed to the dimensions of the top image. There always seems to be some confusion when you are enlarging / sizing prints to fit different formats and some photographers do not take the time to explain it to the people purchasing the enlargements … so, if you do not understand this, please ask.
If anyone has any questions or is interested in purchasing any my work for wall decor, publishing. etc … please do not hesitate to get in touch. Thanks again for looking …
John Wayne Arriving in Pensacola …
Here is John Wayne arriving in Pensacola, where he is scheduled the make the movie ” Wings of Eagles “. I believe he made the part of the movie that was filmed out at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in 1955, since the movie came out in 1957. The movie itself was rather depressing to me and the part with him in Pensacola only took up the first ten minutes or so of the movie. It shows an exciting little piece where he flies a plane through a hanger and it has some nice views of Pensacola Bay, but it goes downhill to me from there. If you are a hard-core John Wayne fan, I am sure you will love it. I wish I could identify the fellows in the background, however no such luck. If anyone knows, please let me hear from you. I have several more photos that my father made of ” Duke ” and even have an autographed photo to Frank that I will post later. As usual, all comments are welcomed …
After School …
This panorama shows the corner of 12th Avenue and Gonzalez Street around 1956 or so … not sure about the exact date as usual. You can see all of the kids milling around because Clubbs Junior High School had just let out. Clubbs was located just two blocks of this intersection. Since this was the only area around that had any stores. all the kids headed in this direction so they could go to the Shaw’s Drug Store, Friendly Service, Winn-Dixie or Ginn’s Restaurant. You can see that 12th Avenue was still paved with bricks and I can remember that fairly well. Anyone have any comments about this time in their lives, please feel free to comment … who knows, that might be you standing on that corner? Thanks for looking … Frank
PS – I was too young in this photo … I did not get to Junior High until 1965 and I went to Workman, since we lived in Cordova Park. I had friends that went to Clubbs and they used to talk about this, but personally I never did.
Pensacola Bay Bridge …
This is one of my favorite photos … mainly because of the clouds. The grass in the fore-ground would be Bayfront Parkway today. This photo was made around 1951 or 1952. Below is a photograph that Billy Tarbuck sent me a while back that shows the bridge from over by the train trestle on 17th Avenue, which actually shows the bridge better than in this photo.
You see the building by the bridge entrance better from this angle than from the first photo and the bridge is closer. One thing that was not built in the above photo was the Wayside Park with all of it’s picnic tables. In fact, it does not look as if there was enough land to have built the park along with the parking lot that was with the park, so that land must have been filled in later to build the Wayside Park. My thanks to Billy for sending me this photo …
Frank Hardy Made My Photographs Two 
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