I'm sure many of you here are familiar with and have met "Stainless Steel Dave". I'm working on a project for Dave, restoring and digitizing many of his pictures. Some of the pics going back to the late seventies and early eighties.
I will be working on this for the next couple of weeks and will be adding pictures to the gallery as I go. Great picture history showing the beauty of the trail and Sierra Nevada's.
Dave: Below is a pic I pulled out of one of the more faded albums.
Before:
After:
And here is the Phone Booth shot at Big Sluice
Person Unkown:
Dave on the phone:
Dave: Back in the day, seems nothing much has change
thank you tim. you did a great job fixing some of the faded pics i had-you are talented my friend!hopefully you can sort thru the book you have and share with everybody the pics of the rubicon from the 50's and 60's not all of them-that would be too much work! just the ones that you think would be interesting as far as trail history/fun pics of the early jeeper jamborees from the beginning. many of the personal pics i gave you are from the mid 70's to the late 80's. the largest tire we could buy back then were 33's or 35's!!. things have changed quite a bit in 32 years!
Ok so I have to ask..if you look at the map,,near Uncle Tom's cabin it reads "ladies side" and "men's side" wentworth road splits the two...I would imagine there were showers or a lake can someone explain this,,,I know I must be asking a stupid question.:shaking:
Great JOB love the old photos it seems not much has changed,,, tools and talent are always needed...love the photo of dave with the torch but what the heck was he planning on doing to the starter??
thank you again tim for all of your effort/skills/experiance/ hard work/so you can share some of the history of the con with all of the members on pirate. you rock!!!!. and a huge thanks to all of the people who volunteered to help out this year on all of our trails in the u.s.a.-thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i remember just a few weeks back dave you telling me that you carry all sorts of tools including a torch; and there you are in that picture decades earlier.
This is pretty cool. One of Dave's albums contains a complete trip from Wentworth to Tahoe during the Memorial day weekend of 1977.
Jimmy Carter was president and such hits playing on the radio as, "Don't leave me this way" Thelma Houston, "You and me" Alice cooper, and the everlasting sounds of Abba abound the billboard charts
"Rocky" was the hot movie along with it's famous soundtrack.
Anyway the pictures are wonderful to look at and get an idea of how the trail has changed and in many ways not changed over the past thirty two years.
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