Christmas morning 1966

[dasacco]

My Uncle recently had his 3000+ slides converted to digital. This one sure brought back memories!

Anyone else have old record player/records photos?

[Ere]

Cool shot! is that you? I see an avatar in the making...

Here's one of my Dad, ca. 1951 in Los Angeles, about to spin Benny Goodman:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1217/1054607608_042ced7807.jpg

[dasacco]

Great - Yeah, that's me. That phonograph took me through to Christmas, 1969, when I got my first stereo - a GE Trimline model with detatchable speakers!

[Cheepnik]

Did you ask for that Standells album, or did you just have hip parents?

[dasacco]

Hip parents to get me the record player, hip uncle who gave me the LP. It was typically the latest Beatles album for me, but in 1966 there wasn't one, so he picked that out. I still have it, albeit a bit worn...

[TOCJ-4091]

My Uncle recently had his 3000+ slides converted to digital. ?

.....colors look nice....any chance you could ask your uncle what unit he used for the conversion?

[scotto]

Great pic. I got a Lost In Space roto-jet gun that year. Wanna trade?

[dasacco]

.....colors look nice....any chance you could ask your uncle what unit he used for the conversion?

He took them to Costco. Twenty-nine cents per shot. Costly project, but these are priceless memories. (Commercial there? :) )

I don't know what process they use, but it sure looked better than my feeble attemps using a flatbed scanner with a 35mm slide adaptor.

Each photo is about a 1MB size and the resolution is quite good. The above is a crop of about 1/4 of the whole frame and I significantly reduced it to get the file size down. One other shot I printed an 8 x 10 of and it looks great.

[Michael]

My Uncle recently had his 3000+ slides converted to digital. This one sure brought back memories!

Anyone else have old record player/records photos?

fantastic photo! 1966 was a wonderful year for music & TV! Color!

[Michael]

Great pic. I got a Lost In Space roto-jet gun that year. Wanna trade?

I'll bet that's worth a good penny, and a fortune in memories!

[Hard Panner]

Great photo dasacco! I'm jealous of your '66 haul.

[theoxrox]

I listened to some dude on Armed Forces Radio (NOT Adrian Cronauer!) say "Good Morning, Vietnam!," and then went about whatever duties I had for that day.

[pick-me-up]

I thought Xmas Yule was over this year …
Maybe I was wrong?

[Jose Jones]

.....colors look nice....any chance you could ask your uncle what unit he used for the conversion?

I know Kodachrome slides have a longer life than Ektachrome--hold their colors better if stored correctly. I have quite a few from the early 1990s that will become that kind of a project someday.

[dasacco]

I know Kodachrome slides have a longer life than Ektachrome--hold their colors better if stored correctly. I have quite a few from the early 1990s that will become that kind of a project someday.

Yeah, pretty sure this was Kodachrome. His camera at the time was an Argus, but I don't know what model. All I remember is being blinded by flashbulbs with every shot.

The Ektachrome slides stand out by being noticeably bluer.

[johninpepperell]

Wow, that's definitely a very cool picture!

[musicfan37]

Very cool picture.

[musicfan37]

I was four years old for Christmas, 1966. I wish I could remember what I got.

[Henry the Horse]

Christmas '66 I was 10, and the records I got were:
Mellow Yellow
I'm A Believer
Snoopy VS. The Red Baron
Winchester Cathedral

[-Alan]

My Uncle recently had his 3000+ slides converted to digital. This one sure brought back memories!

Anyone else have old record player/records photos?

No photos but I was about the same age and remember one of my gifts that year was Supremes A Go-Go. It's also pretty worn out!

[Chris R]

Christmas '66 I was 10, and the records I got were:
Mellow Yellow
I'm A Believer
Snoopy VS. The Red Baron
Winchester Cathedral
Nice. I was also 10 for Christmas '66. I received Beatles - Revolver Capitol mono LP that year as one of my gifts. :thumbsup:

[Henry the Horse]

miike, you were a little ahead of me. I didn't get my first album 'till about a month later, and it was The Monkees!

[tim_neely]

Christmas morning 1966 is the earliest Christmas I remember reasonably well. I was five years old.

Why was it so memorable? Because eastern Pennsylvania was in the throes of the "Christmas Eve Blizzard," a Dec. 24 mega-storm that dropped about 15 inches of snow in about that many hours. My dad still used to get a real tree, and the family tradition at that time (later changed) was that "Santa" decorated the tree on Christmas Eve after the kids had gone to bed. (We were 5, 4, 3, 3 and 2 years old.) I think Dad got the bare tree inside just in time to beat the storm.

We probably wondered how Santa was going to make it through the storm, but we also probably figured that Rudolph would get Santa to our house, no problem. And indeed he did, because when we woke up on Christmas morning, all the presents had magically arrived.

I was a lot shorter then, so I probably am exaggerating, but I remember the snow drifts being so tall that, when my dad finally dug us out, we couldn't see over the drifts!

I didn't see another snowstorm to match that one until the "Blizzard of '78" in January of 1978.

[P2CH]

I got a Silvertone suitcase record player with a 45 of the Toys. The songs were See How They Run and Attack. I was probably around 10 years old. Because of that record though, I love the Toys. I found a best of on CD which has a great sound.

My dad had a TV repair side job in the basement so I had all sorts of great phonographs and radios around. This was in the late 50's, early 60's when I was about 5.

I used to piece fuzzy platter turntables together with stereo cartridges and seperate amps (tubes of course). I wish I held onto those two Scott amps I had in the 70's.

There was also a real cool 78 rpm record player that you slipped the record into a slot in the front of the unit and it pulled it in and played it. I wish I knew where that ended up.

I love old phonograpghs and I have several.