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Happy Anniversary to us !
No traditional blog post today as we’re celebrating our anniversary. The previous blog post was the 200th consecutive blog post out of 234, since March 2022, on this journey through the photographic life of Stockton photographer Joel Pahl Dardis (1921-2021). My lyric soprano spouse Morgan, the granddaughter of renowned photographers Wynn and Edna Bullock, is…
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Cable Car Centennial, 1973
Continuing to dive in slides from the 1970-1974 era. This single slide represents a visit Joel made to the celebration of 100 years of Cable Car in San Francisco. The cable car was introduced in San Francisco on August 2nd, 1873. First test then was near the top of Nob Hill at Clay and Jones…
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More Fire, Technicolor Slides, 1971
These slides were found in a slide box with a 1971 date stamp on it. There are multiple seemingly unrelated subjects and I’ll share these over a few blog posts. Joel photographed quite a few fires, this time he captured activity that may very well be outside of Stockton. These slides are Ektachromes processed by…
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Stockton Main Street fire department activity, between 1957-1959
Dedicating this blog post to the local Stockton historians. I came across this images in Joel’s 3×4″ Press negatives. It’s clearly the JC Penney store on Main Street at the corner of American. That makes it post 1954 and pre 1965-ish. This negative was found in a box with 1959 basketball images. There seems to…
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Fort Ross, Ektachrome, 1970
It’s good to see images of Fort Ross that are over 50 years old. Time has not been kind to these Ektachrome slides and all are affected by fading and significant color shift. (They are in rough shape.) Still, it’s clear that this is a friendly photographer’s outing to go check out some of our…
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Technicolor Trains, circa 1972
The 35mm slides from today’s blog post are in Technicolor frames. Technicolor was a large lab authorised by Kodak to develop their Kodachrome film material using the approved process. This simply means that all Technicolor framed slides are actually Kodachromes and one can expect the advantages of longeavtity. The 5 slides from circa Nov 1972…
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Train, Portraits, 1972
This box only had 5 Ektachrome slides left. According to the date, these are taken between June-August 1972. Two train images somewhere in the Glenbrook, CA area. “Glenbrook” is a former settlement in Nevada County, California, located near Grass Valley. It was listed on an official map as of 1949. Joel captured this detail fo the lantern…
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The Flying Scotsman, April 1972
We’re a bit behind looking at the color images Joel made in various formats. Color photography was for the longest time considered a pass-time for tourists and amateur photographers. The printing technology was not there and fading or shifting of colors was the standard. This didn’t keep Joel from experimenting with color and the different…
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COP Basketball, Box 105, 1959
The images in previous blog post were all from the bench at the Pepperdine vs COP match from Feb 4, 1959. Box 105 has two more match dates scribbled on the side. San Jose State played COP on January 16, 1959 and USF played COP on Feb 13, one week after the Pepperdine match. Following…
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Naranjado, Sports, 1959, Box 105, 1959
While Joel was at SJC and COP, he submitted with great regularity images for the Pacific Weekly and the COP yearbook, Naranjado. Quite a few of his images were published from 1942 through 1948. Some years with credit but quite a few times there were no credits for the photographers that were not part of…
Finding Joel Pahl Dardis 