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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
Finding Joel Pahl Dardis 