Canberra 1959 in colour - Part II

Yeah they are all Kodachrome. The only other colour slides of Canberra in 1959 are the War Memorial-with the Japanese midget submarine outside the building. Because there were over 300 other slides scanning was going to take forever and the quality and colour wasn’t very good so I copied them with my DSLR using a macro lens. Here are 2 photos showing set-up (trying to avoid buying a slide copier!) http://www.flickr.com/photos/28568913@N03/

Ah, Kodachrome 25. Don’cha love it?

it’s good to see the green grass, and northborne ave looked alot better before it got older and delapidated

I thought I recognised the lady in the orange cardigan. Now I know who she is and I remember Teki’s mum serving in the shop. Those pics bring back nice memories. I had forgotten all about that small mound in front of Parliament House.
Thanks Jane.

PH looks a lot better without the tent city out the front…

Thank you for sharing.

I remember Daltons Bookshop 🙂

I appreciate these photo’s. They show the country town known as Canberra, not today’s version, which is a city.

Love it! More please!

A fine series Janed…bought back strong memories of when I first arrived in Canberra from Perth in 1964. Thanks. But what I’d like to know is how you got such good scans from the old transparencies?

I feel so dang conservative looking at these pics. Looking at the one of Northbourne, the 1959 version looks so much more appealing.