Art & Inspiration Through Bob Roddick’s Lens: A Grainy Glimpse from 75 Years Ago

Pretty nice of you boss !!!

 

Ryan, I hope someday you leave your vast collection to the NHRA Museum or Peterson, some place that will keep the history going. You seem to always come up with pretty cool stuff!

 

Amen!

 

Awesome

 

Yes, the old pics and film really cement the Culture to the timelines. Bringing negatives to light must be very exciting...thanks for sharing them. Mr Roddick sure hung around with some movers and shakers. I certainly get why these are so important to stepping back in time which is what I say happens when I hop in the Ole Hotrod...in a plausible way...

 

My uncle, who passed away recently, had a bunch of old drag racing pics at his funeral. I spoke with his kids about letting me borrow them and make digital copies for everyone. They also said he had a lot of 8mm film. He campaigned a lot of cars over the years.

 

Finding someone to print picture from negatives is getting harder to do. As a kid my dad was into photographic we developed our own pictures at home. We had an enlarger and all the chemicals and a dark room.

 

They do make digital convertors now. Not sure on the quality they produce, but I am investing in some of this technology to save old photos etc in the near future.

 

Send them to Ryan...he can do a Thread on your behalf...and we'll all be ooing and aweing...AND they are archived for longer than we'll be around. This stuff is right up his alley too. He's busy I know but if the content is relevant it would be really make for some great recollection. Your relatives would have some pics for a photo album to boot...

I archived a ton of historic Aviation pics from the plant I worked at dating back to its early beginnings in 1938 and put them all on a DVD that I've passed out to anyone who's connected to that history. That would be a good thing to do perhaps in lieu of an Album. Lots of scanning.

 

I hear you Ryan. I suppose a thorough look through the entire collection to narrow things down to what makes sense to fulfill the objective is a good start. Root has a pretty good handle on what jives around here. Truly not all imagery will make the cut.
It really makes sense to get it digitized as stuff gets lost and damaged...

 

That's kinda cool.

 

I fear that in the future there will be no "old" (nowadays) photos as so few get printed. phones and computers crash, and as I sadly found out recently photos on CD deteriorate over time. I recently gathered up all my car photos on to one external hard drive, 24,000 car show images taken since 2004 when I got my digital camera. some of the early ones were just gone, others had deteriorated significantly.

 

Thanks for sharing. That coupe at the salt gives me goosebumps.

 

Most excellent
Dan

 

20 years ago in the midst of a very bad divorce I took every negative out of the house. I'd be damned if I let her steal the memories of my kids growing up from me. Purchased a very high end flat bed photo scanner that did film as well as photos at a very high quality (up to 2400 dpi). Cutting edge at an affordable price at the time. The idea was to digitally archive all the negatives. Finally, this past December I unearthed all the negatives, sat at my desk for a few weeks and scanned all 4500 images. Yes, some of the negatives have degraded over time but the quality is there for the most part. Saved them all into separate folders by date or event and gave them to my kids for Xmas on a portable hard drive. It would have been impossible to print every negative and incredibly costly but now they have all the images of themselves when they were young and it's all finally archived.
Andy