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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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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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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…