Throwback Thursday ~ 1955 Views of the White and Green Mountains

In 1955 my Dad took a trip with his friend around the White Mountains in New Hampshire and Vermont.  They drove a car all around, and took many photographs that were stored as slides for years in our basement.  Last month Vincent did a huge scanning project and digitized over 1,500 slides.  Here are some.  Many of these views are mysteries to me even though I am very familiar with the area.  It seems that some views have changed over the past 65 years.

The Mount Washington Hotel at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire.
This view hasn't changed much, especially the cog railroad tracks up the mountain.
The hotel has expanded a little, and the foreview is now a golf course instead of trees.

An unknown farm, probably Vermont somewhere

One of the notches.  Maybe the Kancamaugus Trail?
Love the 1950s car!

An unknown construction project.  It looks like a dam? Any ideas?

I had no idea what this was until I crowd sourced the answer on Facebook.
This is "Hunter and his Dog" in Smuggler's Notch! 

An unknown hotel labeled only "Lodge" on the white sign.
Dad was a golfer, and this looks like a golf course in the foreground.

An unknown dock, probably on the sea coast because it is cantilevered.
Maybe Maine?

Another mystery view!

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "1955 Views of the White and Green Mountains", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 18, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/04/throwback-thursday-1955-views-of-white.html: accessed [access date]).

Throwback Thursday - 1983 Blizzard in Holden, Massachusetts

Here are some more of the yellow photo slides from Seattle Filmworks.  We used this "less expensive" film when we were poor, starving college students.  I wish I could go back in time and tell myself not to be so cheap, use the Kodak!

I don't know the date of this snow storm, but it looks like we were at my hometown of Holden, Massachusetts when it struck.  Maybe it was Christmas? Or a long weekend?

I remember those days, moving the cars to the street so we could shovel out
the driveway. Vincent had a baby blue Ford Pinto station wagon.

It must have been quite a storm. Look at that snow drift on the roof!

Vincent to the rescue with the snow shovel!

That was a funny way the snow drifted off the roof several feet,
hanging right over the front door.

My Dad had a Chevrolet Impala.  We used to shovel the
driveway by hand, no snowblower or snow plow. 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Throwback Thursday - 1983 Blizzard in Holden, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 11, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/04/throwback-thursday-1983-blizzard-in.html: accessed [access date]).

Throwback Thursday - 1982 Family Reunion

Here are more photo slides from the basement boxes, all cleaned up and digitized.  I was surprised to see these family reunion photos.  I don't remember this event, but that's me in those photos with all my cousins. This is the best part of a scanning project - finding surprise photographs in the boxes!

The Allen family of Hamilton, Massachusetts always had their reunions, parties, wedding and baby showers, and other events at the VFW hall.  Here we are again at the VFW hall!  I had 27 first cousins on this side of the family, and most of them lived nearby.  I see my Aunt Barbara was in these photos. She lived in California, so I think the party was in her honor. We had to rent the VFW so we would all fit!

Several people in these photos have passed away since this reunion (see below).

Aunt Barbara Allen Thacher (in the white shirt)
23 February 1927 - 31 December 2004
I think the woman to the left is my "Aunt Nu-nu" also known as
Eunice Hitchings Bunce 14 June 1904 - 8 January 1985.
Nu-nu was my grandmother's sister.

This is a precious photo for me.  My cousin Gary, in the solid blue shirt,
died a few years after this, the first of my 27 first cousins to pass away.
His Mom died soon after the photo in 1983 (he has his arm around her)

My Uncle Dick with two of his three daughters, Cheryl and Carrie

back row cousins - Marty, Danny and Mickey
middle row - Joey, Laurel, Heather, Judy, Debbie, Cathy and Gary
Front row - Chrissie, Cory, Chris and Kimmie

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Throwback Thursday - 1982 Family Reunion", Nutfield Genealogy, posted April 4, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/04/throwback-thursday-1982-family-reunion.html: accessed [access date]).

Throwback Thursday - Old Friends 1982

More college photo slides digitized!  Here we are with some old friends from college and high school. You know who you are...  In 1982 I was still in college, but Vincent had just graduated from MIT and was in his first apartment in Arlington, Massachusetts.  We were sitting on the floor around a coffee table because there were no chairs!

These photos were take before we were all married, and now, nearly 40 years later, we are all still married.  Who would have thunk?

Here are some photos of a lobster feast in the Arlington apartment.  I can't believe we fit at least five lobsters into that tiny pot. Perhaps we ate in shifts?

Does this lobster fit?

Time to dig in!

Watch out!  It's alive!

The ubiquitous college photo. Getting the lobster drunk before the boiling pot. 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Throwback Thursday - Old Friends 1982", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 28, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/03/throwback-thursday-old-friends-1982.html: accessed [access date]).

Throwback Thursday - 1979 High School Graduation

Here I have more photo slides we have recently scanned and digitized. These slides, although they are older than the first few "Throwback Thursday" photos I posted, are in nicer shape, not deteriorated and the color is still true.  These were Kodak film and processing, and not Seattle Filmworks. My Dad shot them with a pocket sized Kodak instamatic using a cartridge of 110 film. That probably accounts for the graininess of the images.

I graduated from Wachusett Regional High School in Holden, Massachusetts in 1979.  We were a big class of baby boomers, with about 500 in the graduating class from the towns of Holden, Paxton, Princeton, Rutland and Sterling.  There aren't many photos of my graduation.

The girls wore white robes, the boys wore dark green,

the colors of the "Mountaineers"

It looks like my Dad got up behind the stage for this shot.

The ceremony was held on the football field.

I became a high school graduate here!

The ubiquitous photo in front of the flowering mountain laurel.

Our neighborhood was full of mountain laurel

and every May and June lots of family photos were posed here

for Mother's Day, First Communions, Proms,

and Graduations!

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Throwback Thursday - 1979 High School Graduation", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 21, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/03/throwback-thursday-1979-high-school.html: accessed [access date]). 

Throwback Thursday ~ 1981 and 1982 Plymouth, Massachusetts

This was a real find!  Two visits to Plymouth, Massachusetts during our college years.

In the first trip, one spring weekend during college six friends piled into one car and drove from Cambridge, Massachusetts to Plymouth, Massachusetts.  I was the only native New Englander in the bunch, so I had fun touring them around to see the sights.  This was a long time before I knew I had any Mayflower ancestors.

These are more of the deteriorating, old photo slides that we used to take in college because it was less expensive than prints back then in 1981.  These slides were on Kodak film, which seems to have retained the color and sharpness better than the previous "Throwback Thursday" photo slide blog posts, which were taken with Seattle Filmworks film and processing.

The Forefathers Monument in Plymouth, MA

Vincent's old Pinto station wagon, which held six of us!

The Mayflower II

Plymouth Rock, hasn't changed much since 1981!

This marble pavilion houses Plymouth Rock at Plymouth harbor.
This view hasn't changed in almost 40 years. 

The fort at Plimoth Plantation

The view from the top of the fort down Leyden Street at
Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum

A timeless scene, the native Wampanoag home site at Plimoth Plantation

Yours Truly and Vincent at the Mayflower II.
Many years before I knew I was a
descendant of a Mayflower passenger!

At one of the beaches at Plymouth, Massachusetts

Dodging the waves at the beach

Walking along the beach in Plymouth

Yes, the three guys in our group went swimming in their jeans.
It was a wet ride all the way back to Cambridge.

Swimming in jeans.  Fun at the moment, but wet jeans aren't very comfortable later!

In 1982 Vincent's Mom came from Spain to visit Massachusetts. We took her to visit Plymouth and Plimoth Plantation.

The view from on top of the Fort/Meetinghouse at Plimoth Planation.
 You can no longer go to the roof of this building,
but today you can lookout of gunports on the second floor. 

There no longer are stocks at Plimoth Plantation.
Vincent took a moment for a photo opportunity here!

Another timeless photo!  Me and my future mother-in-law
in front of the Mayflower II on the Plymouth waterfront.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Throwback Thursday ~ 1981 and 1982 Plymouth, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 14, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/03/throwback-thursday-1981-and-1982.html: accessed [access date]).

Throwback Thursday ~ 1981 Bike Race from MIT to Wellesley College

More college days photo slides (even though the color is deteriorating)!  It's a good thing Vincent is digitizing these old pictures.  This group of photos features a bike race from MIT to Wellesley College (from Cambridge to Wellesley, Massachusetts.  The men in these photos are all from Vincent's house at MIT (New House III), and the women are mostly my friends and I.  I love the short shorts on the men in these photos - very vintage now!

For some reason we are all up in the Green Building on the MIT campus,
peering out the window... nice view of Boston and the Charles River!

On the Wellesley College campus, waiting for the bikers to arrive

The green T-shirts were the house shirts for MIT's New House III,
although they read "NTS" for "New Three Stooges"

The end of the bike race

Time for a picnic after the race

Relaxing before returning to MIT. 

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Throwback Thursday ~ 1981 Bike Race from MIT to Wellesley College", Nutfield Genealogy, posted March 7, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/03/throwback-thursday-1981-bike-race-from.html: accessed [access date]).