***Comment Thread for the January "Vintage" Photo Contest***

[urbanhermit]

This is the thread for you to use for any comments, questions or whatever you need to post about this month's contest!

Here's the thread to enter the contest:
https://democraticunderground.com/1036141083

[Walleye]

1. I'm in, with fishing vessels from my days working on a salmon boat

We would catch thousands of fish in nets, it was exhausting work, but fun. Don’t know how they do it now, but we did everything by hand. Finally got the heart to go through some of my old Kodachromes. I was using a Leica M4. It was my boyfriend’s father’s boat we worked on through the summers in the 80s.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. The photo is of the only dog we ever had, our Dalmation Meson.

I called her my 'third daughter.' We wanted our kids to grow up with a dog and we settled on this breed for their intelligence and looks.

No idea what camera I used, but it was film.

And her name? A meson is a black and white medium sized sub-atomic particle. My husband (who studied physics!) named her. We loved her!

[Trailrider1951]

3. My submission is a member of one of my hobbies

I collect vintage sewing machines, and I've posted a pic of my Singer Model 128. It still needs some work to shine it up, but it still sews, and is in better shape than I found it in.

[canetoad]

16. I got rid of my 1952 Helvetia

Only a couple of months ago and purchased a new, LIGHTWEIGHT one with more than straight stitching. I'm not a sewer of garments, but mend things and make the odd curtain. Still haven't come to terms with the modern machine - I want my old one back.

[sinkingfeeling]

17. Beautiful machine. I have my great grandmother's

Singer in a cabinet. It still sews as well. But it looks it's age more than yours does.

[Trailrider1951]

20. Thanks for your kind comments. On edit, I have changed the title of my submission

to La Vencedora: a Singer 128. La Vencedora is the name of the decal set that Singer put on this machine, and it is not very common. The name means "The (female) Winner". You can find a complete list of Singer decals here:
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_machine_company/decals/domestics/singer_decal_sets2.html

[edhopper]

4. I converted my color photo

to B&W sepia tone. Is that okay, or too much post production?

[urbanhermit]

5. It's good n/t

[Grumpy Old Guy]

9. It's fine!

[bif]

6. Is it possible to just email you a photo?

I don't know how else to upload a photo.

[WalkerinSC]

7. Do you use any hosting sites like flickr.com?

[urbanhermit]

8. I can see it

Looks like you fixed it, I can see it.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

10. I'm in!

I may not win, but I'll get the most laughs!



This was on the Alaska Highway in the far northern part of British Columbia.

[Walleye]

13. This is funny. It reminds me of my time on the fish boat in Alaska.

The captain of our boat had a great sense of humor, our restrooms consisted of 5 gallon blue plastic buckets with a toilet seat. He had stenciled the men and women symbols for restrooms (familiar, skirts for women pants for men) on the buckets. Cracked me up every time.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

14. That's funny!

I shot this at the Sikanni Chief River in northern B.C. on my way up to Alaska in 2016.

[mnhtnbb]

11. Nostalgia for the "good old days"

should be tempered with reality. The photo of the Soviet C-189 that was a 613-class diesel-electric submarine built at St. Petersburg's Baltic Factory and launched September 4, 1954. It was part of the Soviet Fleet for 35 years and is now a museum moored on the River Neva in St. Petersburg. I took the photo from our cruise ship as we were leaving St. Petersburg on May 29, 2014.

[HAB911]

12. Vintage on vintage double whammy!

Boom!

[canetoad]

15. I'm in

With a pic from the mechanical workshop at our local, closed down coal mine. It was shut in the 70s and later re-opened as a historical attraction as it was the reason my town was founded and carries a lot of history.

Mornings are a great time to visit the workshop, which is dark and dusty with a few high, small windows providing strong shafts of natural sunlight at certain times.

[sinkingfeeling]

18. I'm in Costa Rica, but had my entry on my phone.

This is a photo of one of the stained glass panels in the 1858 house I owned in Arkansas. Selling that place was one of the hardest things I ever did. I spent 25 years and $$$$$$ on restoring it back after it had spent 50 years cut up into 5 apartments.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. That is simply beautiful, my dear sinkingfeeling!

I'm sure you had a hard time, after doing all that work and spending all that money!

I hope whoever bought it treated it with the respect it surely deserves.

[urbanhermit]

21. I'm in with an off the beaten path church.

More info on the structure.

https://boisedev.com/news/2024/08/08/inside-the-idaho-church-built-in-1871-still-used-today/

[Mousetoescamper]

22. I'm in

with a photo of my 1971 Les Paul Deluxe guitar and 1960 Gibsonette Tremolo GA-8T amplifier. I bought the guitar new in 1972, when I was 15 and working after school and Saturdays at a Sears Roebuck catalog store. My parents bought the used amplifier and lived to regret their momentary lapse of reason.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. My second submission is in!

My precious daughters, back in the day . . .

[2naSalit]

24. I put in two...

I almost forgot!

Phew!

[mnhtnbb]

25. In with a second entry

from the same trip as the first entry. Shot of the old bike leaning against the old building taken on a street in Copenhagen, Denmark. This was in 2014. Bikes were everywhere, including hundreds of them locked to racks in front of an entrance to the subway.

[Xipe Totec]

26. Made it in just barely!

Pedal cars hung in an old mechanics garage. Quick pic as I waited for my vehicle inspection seven years ago.

[Diamond_Dog]

27. I hope everyone had fun with this theme!

The entries are SUPER! Lots of variety and I loved reading the backstories, too!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

28. It's a fantastic theme! Thank you for thinking of it, my dear Diamond_Dog!

I think you can tell by the wide variety of entries that we sure had a great time.

[Diamond_Dog]

29. I am thrilled with the variety of entries!

I just knew our DU photogs would rise to the occasion! I’m glad I thought of it, too!