The last month has been full
of research of the Past.
Still looking thru old
pictures of relatives.. and passing
them on..
And then my daughter found
someone who could take
8mm movies and put them on
video for a reasonable
price.. Now we are making
copies for family members.
This one hits a little
closer to home.. meaning my
generation and my children.. blips like 8mm is..
from time of the 60's to the
70's .. as my children
were small children.. Some
of these movies are almost
50 years old. As the oldest is moving up on 55 this year
and she is 5 in some of the
shots.. There is my folks
farm..
And what would be a surprise
to my readers...is the
pictures of my husband and
my business of the 1970's.
Smashing cars for scrap
iron. There is where we use to
burn them (before EPA) as it
clean out the copper under
the dashboard. Burnt off all
the coating on the wire.. So
you can reach up and pull it
all out. Also it weaken the
iron in the car, making it
easier to smash. Then we
would transport it to
Seattle for the crushers, to send to
Japan at that time.. for the
mere $12 a ton.. and that was
good money, as we did get $8
a ton for a while. My
deceased husband who was
doing this.. would have
a heart attack if he could
see what the prices were
4 or 5 years ago, when it
was going to Turkey and
they were paying $400 a
ton..
Anyway, watching the video
is kind of like watching
your life past before your
eyes... And we have more
to come.. As one of my son's
had the 8mm I gave
him and the ones his dad
had... So that will be a
wonderful sight to see too..
One thing we did learn.. it
is good we did it now..
as a lot of the pictures
were lost to faded pictures.
There is a lot of good
stuff... so well worth the
viewing.. but makes us
realize.. if we don't get all
of them on dvd's, they can
be lost forever.
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