1966 Cross Country Trip-Part 4- California

 

Arroyo Grande

Old Mission San Miguel

1966 Cross Country Trip- Part 3- California

Grandpa-on right

Santa Ana

San Bernardino

Oil Well- Pacific Ocean

My grandparent's car and trailer

Gaviota Pass

Gaviota Tunnel

I wasn't sure where the Gaviota Pass and Tunnel was in California so I looked up info about it. It is 33 miles NW of Santa Barbara, along US Route 101. The tunnel was completed in 1953. It is 420 feet long and 17.5 feet tall. This is at the center of Gaviota State Park and includes an Overlook.

 

1966 Cross Country Road Trip-Part 2- Arizona

 Painted Desert. Arizona

New Mexico

I forgot to post this in part 1. It is kind of hard to see what is in the photo- looks like a statue of a miner, or a bartender from the 1800s.

1966 Cross Country Road Trip- Mom and her parents

 Mom had the photo album of this trip in a storage tote for a very long time. I don't remember ever looking at it before the past few years I only had glanced through it a couple of times then.

Recently, I looked at it more closely and decided to scan the photos. They are printed on thick type paper and are in the pages pretty tight so they were hard to get out. It was easier just scanning each page. I did take a few of them out to do so though.

I haven't really talked to Mom about this vacation that much. She did mention the Pikes Peak, Colorado portion of it. There aren't any photos of that, just some footage on home movies which I saw for the first time a couple of months ago. I finally had her 8 mm film reels put onto DVD. She seemed pleased to see these.

I hadn't even realized that they visited her sister out in California as part of this until recently. Maybe Mom did mention it before but I just forgot.

I still have a lot more photos to crop and straighten as best as I can. I completed a handful yesterday. Here are the ones of Oklahoma and New Mexico.

Oklahoma

Grandpa- on left, with a local guy

3 locals and their doggie

New Mexico

Grandpa

 Just the last of Mom's photos of her father, including some from a surprise birthday party for him. 

Aunt Jean and Uncle Steve

Grandpa doing yard work

1961 Presidential Inauguration-JFK-Part 2

 Here is the one photo that I forgot to include in Part 1. It is the same as the original but in this recent copy looks a bit darker.

These are photos made from slides. I have 10 more that I will eventually get done. Those are mostly of the ceremony at the Capitol Building like the ones from negatives.

John and Jackie Kennedy

President Truman

Robert Kennedy

1961 Presidential Inauguration- JFK- Part 1

 These are two the original photos from my uncle who was at this event. I also have the ticket. I don't know what happened to the rest of the original photos but do have the negatives which I had made into photos a few months ago. 

Parade

Ceremony

Uncle Bill- on right