Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: Unknown Camera

Elsie & Fritz Kroeger on the roof of their home in San Diego; date and photographer unknown but probably 1950ish. Scanned from a photo, obviously; one of my mother's keepsakes. Since Mom's parents lived a couple thousand miles from Michigan I didn't see them often; the only time I visited San Diego was in the mid-1950s. Can't say I remember much about the house, or the visit; just a few episodes, mostly from the long train trip, remain in my memory. Google's Streetview shows that the house is still standing , which I find surprising. When Grandma passed away in 1988 my parents expected the house to be replaced soon after it was sold, as its neighbors had been. Obviously that didn't happen. ========== A slightly-related story: On my first day as a State of Michigan employee, we new hires got a tour of the Secretary of State Building (that's the DMV, for those of you who aren't from Michigan). The call center's supervisor wanted to demonstrate something, and asked for an out-of-state address. I volunteered 1948 Felspar in San Diego; he came up with my grandmother's name. I'm really not sure how that address got embedded in my memory, but there it is.

Back when she was young, in early 2002. She's wearing something similar today, to keep her from scratching her ear. Poor old kitty. She hates it.

My mom, and her dad, on a porch somewhere in Iowa, around 1930. Today would have been Mom's 94th birthday. Probably my favorite photo in the family collection.

Pretty sure I took this photo in Moultenborough, New Hampshire, at The Loon Center . If that is correct, this is a little corner of Lake Winnipesaukee. Very pretty. In many ways this stop was the highlight of our 2000 New Hampshire vacation.

...and the Central Highlands of Vietnam in the background. Pleiku, RVN, 1970 or 1971. Jim Lovins photograph

Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971. Another Jim Lovins photograph. Not sure who the GI is.

Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971. Jim Lovins photograph, considerably touched up. Looks a lot like the original was a terrific photograph. Even now I've got mixed feelings about hiring local women for a few cents a day to do our chores. While I'm certain that they welcomed the income, there was something about the situation that didn't sit right with me. All the same, I helped pay for them, and depended on them to keep things in order.

Another Jim Lovins photograph; Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971. I have this feeling that if I were better with my graphics tools I could turn this into something quite remarkable. Beyond me, I'm afraid....

Jim Lovins photograph; Pleiku, RVN, 1971. Jim & I both came back with photographs from what appears to be the same party. Obviously related to this photo , and at the location shown in this one .

Jim Lovins photograph; Pleiku, Republic of Vietnam, 1971. This building housed Republic of Korea troops and was just outside Pleiku's central MACV compound. It was roughly half-way between our "home" in the hospital complex and our "office" in MACV. The damage was done by a 122 mm rocket. Every couple weeks the VC would fire missiles at us. While the rockets certainly weren't harmless--people died in this incident--they were far more scary than they were dangerous. Typically, we'd be ducking nine rockets in a day: Three in the early morning, three more around noon, and three before supper. They'd set up the rockets on the outskirts of the city--near the whorehouses, I'm told--and retreat into the town before the Hueys could respond. The intended target was usually the local military headquarters (II Corps). Since our Commcenter was on the line defined by the launch site and the target, we had more than a few close calls. But by the second rocket in each set, we'd be in the bunker, wearing tin pots & flack jackets.