| Show 4 W 1 I r ar I By Dv SAM JR I I t I When there Is a gathering of ot the clans for a family reunion when old f friends get together after long separation t tion someone ion someone sooner looner or later and arid Its It's usually sooner Is sure to bring out the book of ot old snapshots and if it it Is still e extant the antique family album with t the tho he plush covers probably covers probably by this time a bit moth And there will be a happy hour or so eo spent in looking at the pictures with many a laugh at some of ot the snaps maybe a tear or two for tor places and faces and d days dya ys that are gone But Dut withal the I occasion will be Interesting and one j certain to stimulate conversation and reminiscence e. e Our family Is no exception to the rule We are great picture fo savers vers and In our day have been avid picture takers too We Wo still are as a matter of ot fact Although as al yet we e have not had tho good fortune to see It Brother Lawrence has a large and fascinating array of or earlier day clay and currently Informal pictures plo pic tures in the party room ot of his home bome In Alhambra The last time we were home borne Dad had scores of ot snaps under the glass glasa top on his desk In the office they may still be there and anet had still more piled up In the drawers of his desk at home I We have many too of ot family and friends accumulated through the years Some of them go back half halt a century to the days when Dad bought us our i first camera camera camera-a a Ray we believe it was called and when the tIle late W. W A. A Adams I showed us tie how to use It and suggested 1 the subjects of the very first pictures we ever took I The camera was a simple square black box affair It was a far Sar cry indeed from tim the modern multi kodak but It took good pictures on glass plates They were rather tricky to handle too Film rolls and film packs came later as did of course the and amateur movie equipment that now Is rather crowding tho the at stills Ills right out of the picture Mr Adams whose studio and home was next door to The The- Record office for forso forso forso so many years was an artist of ot rare achievements We doubt 1 If his talent was I I ever duly appreciated in Utah He lIe was our family photographer naturally and andI I comparing now some of ot his early day i 1 portrait effects and results with those i of modern experts In the field we behove be- be bev v Hove he was well welt ahead of his time As a painter Mr Adams achieved even of 4 finer things He lle liked nothing better than to wander with canvas and paints to some one of the beauty spots In the mount mountains and valleys about Park City and to record the fact and the spirit I of of the scene in living colors The artist exhibited some of these pieces at state fairs and elsewhere Many he be hung In his Park Fark City studio It labour regret that we never acquired one one for for reasons of sentiment particularly though the intrinsic value also would be consider consider- I able S S C Mr Adams was a singularly reticent and retiring personality He lie was patient spoken soft self Belt He and the charming Mrs Adams who was never without a smile and a friendly greeting for her friends kept house in a restful atmosphere of calm and repose and happiness happiness happiness hap hap- In living quarters behind the studio A less reserved person than Mr Adams with his gift for portraiture and paintIng painting painting paint paint- ing would have havo attracted wide attentiOn attention attention atten atten- tion and distinction could have gone far In fields much broader than those afforded by a little mining camp But BlIt Mr lr Adams was happy In Park City There was always beauty to be found there or anywhere by a man of his discernment and philosophy and there with Mrs Adams he be enjoyed the contentment and the close friendships that meant more to him than the fame tame and adulation he lie might have won In some great city C S SWe We recall as though It were but the day before yesterday the morning some odd 50 years ago when Mr Mt Adams showed us how to work our new camera camera camera cam cam- era and how to mix the chemicals for forthe forthe forthe the developer and the fixer how to put the plates In the camera and anet in the printing frame and anet all alt the rest of ot it It It was a rather complicated pro process pross ess in those days Had to have sunlight for Instance to make a print No snapping the shutter and taking your roll Into the kodak shop for processing and out again In a few hours with your pictures S S Dad became Interested In picture- picture taking too and for quite a while we followed the hobby in rather a large way Dad bought the and best in Il equipment At night we turned tho the kitchen Into a dark room and really went to town Dad acquired a II panoramic I camera quite an elaborate thing for those days and anet also a camera camero that at once took two pictures of the same Continued on Page Tour Four n Looking Backward Continued Continues from Page One thing for viewing through the stereo stereo- scope 1 The stereoscope was the twin affair that that one ne held up to look through to get more or teed lesa three views of or Niagara Falls the pyramids pyramid Of S Egypt and other othe such luch wonders Dad HM and I went em one better bettor and made loc lOcal views for the home folks folka In those days every well regula regulated regulate parlor had a and a bundle bundi of views along with the family bible and picture album a conch shell the what Wha not In the corner top marble ped center table railing calling card receiver receiver- dollies sofa cushions tails cat Paper flowers and other prized dust durt catchers e e S Looking back now and checking rm on oa some of the pictures we made in the thi early days we are rather convinced that we did a pretty good Job After BO so mans man Dan years of knocking about In one place and another many of the snaps we toot took as a a. kid are still clear and as asas legible the they were made roade as day The Tho cops com position In some of them Is not to too bad either Theres There's one of LaPage for in br lai stance a a. little fellow perched on a high ledge of rock outcropping up back of the thi old Creole that wed we'd snap from Just jUet about ther same place and angle it If We ae were doing It pow now Not a very good pic plc ture turo of Lee perhaps but Its It's swell of at the rock I There are pictures of the fire fire too tao and of circus wagons lumbering up Part Put avenue soon Boon after the fire fire- because our ou house Is shown still In ruins There are an pictures of Fourth of July parades sad and ups close-ups of some of the floats of Dr old horse and surrey a od outings at the Hot Pots and on the Provo river and at Brighton pictures of ot the old Marsac Marsao milt mill stack as it was top ton pled to the grounds after the mill was waa ai dismantled and torn down pictures ot of the mines and boarding houses homes Mil and engines bucking huge snow drifts on th the I High Line of Easter Rock and of Daland Dad Dal and Uncle Harry sitting on the rail fence fenc at the old race track below town pic pie I tures lures of the high school and of Th The rhe Record office views of or the camp from different view-points view scenic stuff along alone ithe the Crescent Tramway and In I Hollow and shots of the family and andI friends galore e I And theres there's a good picture of the big crowd at the D D. R. R G a. a station to ta greet the first train that came carne from Salt Lake City after the narrow-gauge narrow track had been widened to standard gauge Unfortunately the date Is not re reo corded on the print but It was a long time ago In the picture Is FitzmaurIce dray that went down every day to pick up freight and baggage The late Roy McFalls Jimmy Kelly and other regulars regu regu- lars who always made the train were j there Including no doubt Dad himself i who always found Interesting personal i mention among those coming and go Ing O a. a E. E Hedges was station agent then lor or thereabouts Remember his attractive I tive daughters I e S Much of life has been lived at the old station Tears of Joy were shed there and there were tears of sorrow The station had Its scenes of drama and of comedy and of tragedy The road to fame and fortune for some on the broad plank plant platform to others there came there sorrow and disappointment and S SS So Bo all In all the little depot In years yean long gone was rather the center of things a hive of activity a a. place of I meeting for friends every day with the th morning arrival and afternoon depar I ture of trains I 1 Rather difficult for the younger gen gsa I that and the newcomers to visualize that perhaps in this day of ot improved highways and automobiles and busses- busses but It was true truer I L read And nd It was depressing somehow to toi i In The Record recently that now even the station windows have been boarded up Like sealing the tomb In a way on another era in the old camps camp's colorful and happy and prosperous past |
