Finding Joel Pahl Dardis

Category: Kodachrome

  • LA to NOLA, June 1943

    LA to NOLA, June 1943

    There are just enough Kodachromes in this stack to figure out that on June 8, 1943 Joel was in Los Angeles California with few of his camp mates. The fountain in above slide gave away the location. This is Pershing Square in what is currently Downtown Financial Park. I believe the fountain is gone after…

  • Draft 1942, Enlistment, 1943

    Draft 1942, Enlistment, 1943

    WIth a Friday Feb 19, 1943 date written on the 3 last press negative format boxes from that year, it somewhat hinted that Joel was preparing for another significant phase in his life. Joel’s Draft Card is dated Feb 14, 1942. The draft required all men between 21 and 45 to register for military service.…

  • Rejected Kodachromes, 1941

    Rejected Kodachromes, 1941

    I came across a Kodachrome box with a postage label of August 11, 1941. And we’ve seen in a few posts prior that Joel indeed had shot quite a few Kodachrome slides that year. There was the Death Valley trip and some local Stockton images. So I had high hopes there would be more of…

  • The Death Valley Trip

    When I wrote recently (First Color blog post) about the Kodachrome images taken on a trip through Death Valley all the way to Boulder Dam, I didn’t know what prompted this trip. And a starter image of a Sunday Service on Sunday, April 6, 1941, of Troop 225 (Camarillo) at Red Rock, didn’t help much…

  • April 10, 1941

    April 10, 1941

    On April 10, 1941, the German and Italian invaders of Yugoslavia set up the Independent State of Croatia (also including Bosnia and Herzegovina), and place nationalist leader Ante Pavelic in control of what is no more than a puppet Axis regime. At home, Joel Dardis is explores different sites in Death Valley with the troop,…

  • April 9, 1941

    April 9, 1941

    PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame on this day while Dorothy Kirby wins comfortably by 16 strokes ahead of Helen Sigel at the LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf in Augusta CC. Joel’s group is at Boulder Dam, aka Hoover Dam that day. Incidentally, mid-1941 is also the time the dam stopped filling after 7 years,…

  • April 8, 1941

    April 8, 1941

    Joe Louis beats Tony Musto by technical knockout in the 9th round at the Arena, Saint Louis, Missouri to retain NYSAC heavyweight boxing crown. Joel Dardis is in the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada to take a look at the Bottle House tourist attraction. There are 3 glass bottle houses in Rhyolite and Tom Kelly’s, the…

  • April 6, 1941

    April 6, 1941

    On this Sunday, Craig Wood wins the 8th US Masters Golf, his first major title, 3 strokes ahead of runner-up Byron Nelson. Across the Atlantic, the invasion of Yugoslavia (Operation 25) and Greece (Operation Marita) by the Axis powers starts on this day. Closer to home, Joel takes most likely his first Kodachrome images in…

  • First Color Slides

    First Color Slides

    The second item standing out between all the factory standard negative boxes and paper sleeves, was the E. Leitz coverglass box, containing at one point in time 2″ x 2″ glass. These cover glasses were used to assemble the early 2″ x 2″ slides, before factory standard cardboard or plastic frames. In the early years…