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Older Wilson Family Scanned Negatives

A while back I pulled a bunch of black and white negatives to scan with a small fist-sized desktop scanner device. Although the unit claimed high-resolution results, they are pretty grainy. I used Photoshop to try and clean them up, but the results are not stellar. Here they are. I'm not posting them on Facebook. Most of these photos are from the older B/W negatives but there are some more recent. Let me know if you want me to re-scan one on my good flat-bed scanner or if you know any details about the photos.
Family Vacations - They were rare but we did take day trips to the beach and did some deep-sea fishing trips. I remember dad being late and running down the docks at Garibaldi to catch the fishing boat in time! I remember a camping trip near Mt. Hood with a big old canvas tent that leaked. There were trips to Astoria (see Dad with his arm around Mom and Vince mugging for the camera); there was the Oregon Centennial in 1959 and the Seattle Worlds' Fair in 1962. Cape Lookout was a favorite family beach and picnic area.​
Dad rowing a wood boat on an unknown lake.
Campfire at the beach I think.
Astor Column in Astoria; Dad & Mom bottom left with his arm around her.
Dad fishing off the rocks.
Dad and kids fishing off the rocks.
From one of our fishing trips in 1957, Garibaldi, I think.
Mom & Dad & fish ready to clean.
Carolyn exploring a ship at Oregon Centennial 1959.
Mom at a serene lake somewhere.
Dad smelt fishing, often in the Sandy River and often with Vince.
Family - The picture of me at the sink washing dishes was taken when my mom and I visited her family and my NY cousins in 1946.  This was at my cousin John's home in NY.  The photo was clipped from a 8mm movie and highly photo-shopped! Below also is Vince playing cowboy, some 1957 fashionistas and probably the last two photos taken of my grandparents, Bessie in 1960 at Christmas and Ed at Christmas in 1964. In Picture #3, Ed & Bessie's original house is in the background. It became a playhouse with lots of broken and miscellaneous kitchen "treasures" to play with. I think it was in the more recent area west of where Dad's fig trees were planted.
Judy washing dishes in 1946 at Cousin John's house.
A young Gene Autry or Roy Rogers, our radio cowboys!
Three amigos in rain hats. Note the little house in back, Ed & Bessie's original house.
Sunday Fashions 1957-58
Carolyn, Mom & Patty 1957
Patty, Judy, Carolyn, Vince & Puddy 1961
Carolyn practicing on the flute.
Dad opening a present in 1960
Bessie 1960, Christmas, three years before her death.
Ed & Carolyn, 1964, a year after Bessie passed.
Some recently discovered farm photo negatives including two negatives of the old and new barns. Stitched together they showed the complete panorama of how they were situated circa 1932. Those were really great negatives to work with once I realized that they were taken side-by-side. I wish that I had more hayloft pictures. We all had fun on the hayloft trampoline as Carolyn displays here.
Colorized photo stitched together of the new barn alongside the old barn, circa 1932
Hay being lifted into barn hayloft with ropes and pulleys.
Carolyn on the trampoline in the hayloft.
Hauling hay on the farm, circa 1965.
Plowing the fields, circa 1965
Howard and Ellen - The Cracker Boxes: Dad said that that was what he ate while Ellen and Judy were in NY in 1946. We took a trip east to visit Mom's family and my Benedict cousins when I was three. In 1942 Ellen went to California to care for her half-sister, Marjorie, who was ill and needed care for her two boys as well as herself.  The collage picture is Mom & Dad in 1941-42.  I have no idea what kind of bulbs they were digging. They look too large to be garlic and we never had garlic on the farm ever that I remember.
Crackers Dad ate while Mom was away.
Ellen 1942, close to the time she went to Calif. to help her sister, Marjorie.
Collage of 1941-42 photos of Mom & Dad.
Harvesting some kind of bulbs in 1942.
Dad with one of his apple trees
Early photos from my high school years. When I was sixteen I was allowed to live at my grandma's house (just next door on the farm property). I cleaned up my dad's old room and made it my own. It was certainly a blessing to have an indoor shower and toilet. I made most of my dresses for school. However, at BHS, I had a boyfriend whose mother worked for White Stag Clothing Company in Portland. She let me shop at the employee store and I collected some great White Stag outfits, one is pictured below. Next up are photos close to the time of my marriage in 1962. Our first apartment in Portland, then in 1966 we were off to S. California. We got tired of a particularly rainy March and loaded up a trailer and headed south. We first landed in Encino which was just off the 1-5 freeway. We were there for a month, then landed in South Pasadena for a few years. Lastly was our time in Whittier in 1970-74. We adopted an English bulldog that Bill had wanted forever and soon after our first daughter was born.
My horse, Scamper, a gelding, why dad?? He was quite frisky! 1957
Visiting a ship during a Rose Festival week, not sure of year, early sixties?
In the old '57 Chevy wearing one of my hand-made dresses.
One of my homemade dresses. I think it was blue.
Oregon Centennial in 1959 (I think) wearing one of my White Stag outfits.
Baking in Grandma Bessie's kitchen
Grandma Bessie's kitchen and White Stag pants.
New and first pair of glasses, 1960, seated in Grandma's living room
Graduation, June 1961, Sunset HS
Pasting Green Stamps in redemption booklet.
Ironing in first apartment in Portland; worked at Wards in NW PDX,
I still have this bowling ball, cut specially for my tiny hand and fingers.
J & B in South Pasadena, late sixties.
House in Whittier with amazing lemon trees in the back yard, 1970-74
"Otto" and his "baby".
Flowers - Tulip field facing south towards the railroad tracks.
Roses along driveway.
Facing South to railroad tracks
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