My Parents Loved To Travel
@PainsOnSlate (21852)
Canada
June 5, 2019 10:11am CST
When I was a kid our parents took is all over the north east of the USA. My parents had cousins and family all around from Maine down to New York. We also had relatives we got to meet on a trip to Maryland down to Florida when I was a kid.
When I grew up I went to Kansas to college and met my husband there. He was born and lived until college in Massachusetts.
When we kids left the house to live as adults my parents spent most of their time traveling, all over the USA and Canada.
With their travels they took photos and put them on slides.
Recently my sister found in the attic the boxes of slides and has looked through the hundreds of slides and put the ones that were important back on photos.
I never did see all the slides, I lived in the Midwest until we moved to Canada. I'm sure my dad showed us some when we visited but now they are gone and my sister is sharing some of the photos.
She sent me several photos, the one above is my daughter when she was just walking in the backyard at Grandpa's house. I had to ask if it was my sister's daughter or mine. They looked a lot when they were little.
My daughter will be 50 next January...
I love seeing old photos. How about you?
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42 responses
@divalounger (6120)
• United States
5 Jun 19
I love old pictures--when you find them, it's like finding buried treasure!
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
5 Jun 19
They are buried treasures... Can't wait to see more...
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@patgalca (18366)
• Orangeville, Ontario
6 Jun 19
I still have some baby pictures of my kids on the walls, as well as updated ones. My husband thinks it's time to take the baby photos down. I refuse. I love the memories and with dementia in my family I am making effort to hold onto memories so that I never forget.
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@snowy22315 (180758)
• United States
5 Jun 19
Old pictures are always fun. I would really like to see some old movies though. I think they would make me cry though..as both my grandmothers were on there. There is one cute one I remember, my grandmother who had come from church took off her shoes and hose and was running barefoot on the lawn chasing a frisbee! She had her issues, but she was a good sport!
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@snowy22315 (180758)
• United States
5 Jun 19
@PainsOnSlate I will tell you one thing, she was devoted to her family!
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@LovingMyBabies (85288)
• Valdosta, Georgia
5 Jun 19
Adorable! I love seeing old photo's as well. =)
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
6 Jun 19
I love them too, so much fun with a walk in the earlier years ...
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@cmoneyspinner (9219)
• Austin, Texas
5 Jun 19
When I worked for the federal government I arranged my official business trips with family vacation. We have great photos. Lots of fun memories.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
7 Jun 19
@cmoneyspinner While our parents were still alive we made sure we visited in the summer or for holidays, So glad we did. and yes, a lot of memories.
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@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
8 Jun 19
I realize you didn't ask me how a person turns old slides into a photo, Valerie, but I do happen to know, if you're interested?
You take the old slides to a Walmart, Kmart or other camera dealer near you. Most of them will accept your slides and send them to Kodak to be made into photos. (Do take out the insurance to cover those slides if they get lost going to or from Kodak. Losing a customer's slides doesn't happen often (I've waited on a customer at Walmart whose slides never made it to Kodak.) but it has happened. Of course, insurance can't return the slides to you if they do get lost, but in eleven years at Walmart, I've only heard of that one case of lost slides.)
Or, if you don't trust any company with your slides, you can digitize them yourself using a flatbed scanner hooked to you pc. Let me get the link that tells how to do that for you. BRB.
Here is a link that lets you see ten ways to copy your slides into a digital image or hard copy image. (Using a flatbed scanner is probably the easiest of those methods, but it only produces medium grade images since slides are so small to begin with.)
Good luck with your images, Dearheart. 
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
8 Jun 19
@just4him Valerie J. Routhieaux this is the answer in case you missed it..
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
8 Jun 19
I didn't even ask how she got them on Photos...I will do that. We communicate via email. She's in NY and I'm 5 hours away in Canada. Good luck with your photos... And I love the photo, so glad to have it.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
13 Jun 19
Oh sorry they make you sad. I love looking at them knowing they are gone but so good to me when they were here...
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@Nevena83 (65277)
• Serbia
13 Jun 19
@PainsOnSlate My parents are alive, but the pictures show happiness, but it has long since disappeared.
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@Shellyann36 (11384)
• United States
5 Jun 19
That is an adorable photo. I love seeing the old photos. It is fun to sit down and try to guess who the people are. I have not done that in a long time.
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@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
8 Jun 19
Hi, Kim! Long time, no see. 
How have you and your family been lately?
How have you and your family been lately?2 people like this
@mom210 (9117)
• United States
12 Jun 19
@PainsOnSlate it goes way to fast. I am realizing just how fast now.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
8 Jun 19
The time goes so fast.... @mom210 I remember when they went off to collgege and that was a long time ago....Time flies...
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@moffittjc (121586)
• Gainesville, Florida
5 Jun 19
I agree, looking at old photos is really nice, it brings back great memories from the past. The hardest thing for me though is that when I was two years old, our house burned down and destroyed all the old family photo albums. So I don't have any old photos of my parents, and very few of my grandparents. It's always been a huge disconnect in my life, but I try to make up for it by creating new memories (and lots of photos) with my own children.
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@moffittjc (121586)
• Gainesville, Florida
6 Jun 19
@PainsOnSlate With the proliferation of social media sites and apps, it is much easier to record memories these days than it was in the past.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
8 Jun 19
There is a company called I memories that can repair photos and then pics from any storage like even vhs and put them on things that can be viewed on any electronic device we own.
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@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
8 Jun 19
There are programs and devices you can get on or with your pc that can repair old photos and pull photos out of digital media, Marsha. (There are also fairly cheap devices that will let you run old 8mm or other types of old movies through it and digitize them for you. I used one device to transfer all my old VHS home movies to digital copy 15 years ago. They came out very nice.)
I use a freeware program called VLC Media Player that plays digital movies and lets me take digital snapshots of anything in the movie. (That program can also do minor fixes to your digital movies/photos as long as the damage wasn't too bad. It might be able to do even more than that. I know there are a lot of options with it that I've never bother learning about. 
*shrug* I haven't needed to learn any of the other options it offers. 
)
*shrug* I haven't needed to learn any of the other options it offers. )2 people like this
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
11 Jun 19
@DaddyEvil I think I have that on my computer but never checked it out.
I'm thinking more of my husband's old vhs tapes. I don't have the time to find something that will transfer that type of image to a more current storage solution. For some I think that link might work better.
When I retire I may be able to figure some of that for our own use but I'm not interested at present.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
8 Jun 19
that's sounds like a good idea...@MarshaMusselman
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@Fleura (30399)
• United Kingdom
5 Jun 19
Lots of good memories there! I have a big box of photos and I've been working through them, trying to identify the unknown ones. They are from my mother's family and also some from my great-aunt. Why didn't people write on them?? You never know whether a person is a key ancestor or just a visiting friend!
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@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
8 Jun 19
I had the same trouble when I scanned all the family photos into my pc about 15 years ago. I was lucky though since my older sister had, not long before that, traced our family tree as far as she could back in time. She had gotten copies of photos and portraits for all the main ancestors as well as a lot of the collateral family members.
We did come up short on a few people anyway, but other family members identified those as friends of the family instead of family.2 people like this
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
15 Jun 19
@Fleura Oh, yeah, that could make things a lot more difficult! I feel for you, Fleur!
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
8 Jun 19
@Fleura I agree there are many old photos that we are not sure who is who...
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@Dena91 (16636)
• United States
5 Jun 19
Yes I love old family photos. Thankfully my Nana made my brother and I a scrap book of our childhood. After my parents divorced most of our childhood pictures got lost. My Dad had some and when he passed I asked my step mom if she could save them until we got back up to Kentucky to get them. When we returned a few months later she had thrown them away. I was crushed.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
5 Jun 19
Wow, I've never been divorced but I know I would help the kids and a few photos is not asking too much. Sorry the step mom was a nasty one...
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
13 Jun 19
My parents worked hard their whole life so when they had time to travel they did that and I'm sure they wanted us kids to see as much as we could of the USA before we grew up and left home.. After we kids got married they would come and visit in our homes too..That was great fun. They lived in NY and my sister was in Washington and I was in Kansas...It was fun to have them visit.
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@Janet357 (75646)
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14 Jun 19
@PainsOnSlate that is their reward for themselves. but in some countries, only the rich could.travel. there in the usa,.it is not hard.to.indulge oneself in leisure.
good.for them
how are they.today?
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@Janet357 (75646)
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17 Jun 19
@PainsOnSlate very loving parents. i.always admire parents who.never divorce. you are 73 now? i thought you were just in 40s.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
8 Jun 19
I remember Dustin's Memorial in your yard. It is such an honor for him. My heart hurts when I think of losing a child. Our youngest Jamie lost his mother when he was around 3 and we adopted him. We were Aunt and Uncle but very soon we were and still are Mom and Dad. He is getting married this fall...
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@CarolDM (203422)
• Nashville, Tennessee
8 Jun 19
@PainsOnSlate Thank you Marilyn for remembering and for saying his name. Means a lot. Wow where does the time go!
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
6 Jun 19
Yes, I love seeing photos also. It relives those days instantly.
I also love reviewing the pictures taken by my phone's camera, since it is always what I use to take pictures.
I can't help smiling and reliving those times in the pictures.
Your child is so cute and adorable in the picture.
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@SIMPLYD (90722)
• Philippines
13 Jun 19
@PainsOnSlate I think you also looked so cute when you were a kid. 
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
12 Jun 19
thank you, I love to look at my photos too...
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
8 Jun 19
What an adorable photo. I love to look at old photos and reminisce.
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
8 Jun 19
@PainsOnSlate My eldest is already 50, hard to believe how can he be that old? How can I be this old? lol
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
8 Jun 19
It was a surprise, I loved getting it and shared it with my daughter. She will be 50 next year...
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
8 Jun 19
@BelleStarr life just sneaks up and makes us old....
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@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
8 Jun 19
I started to tease you, Nancy, by asking if they really could take photos that far back, but decided I wasn't in the mood for that kind of teasing today.
I'm sure you were a beautiful little girl, Dearheart.
I'm sure you were a beautiful little girl, Dearheart. 2 people like this
@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
7 Jun 19
I like to see me in old photos too...I'm always surprised by the clothes and things we played with like toys and old good friends.
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@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
15 Jun 19
@PainsOnSlate You notice, @andriaperry didn't comment on what I said, right? Personally, I think that must mean I guessed correctly! 
Oh, Andria, would you like to straighten out the record for us now? *grinning and teasing you!*
Oh, Andria, would you like to straighten out the record for us now? *grinning and teasing you!*1 person likes this
@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
8 Jun 19
Were you walking down the aisle when you posted your response here, Andria? Or were you just thinking of me and that just slipped out? 
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@florelway (23286)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
8 Jun 19
I love old photos too. But sometimes looking at these pictures bring a sense of sadness especially when those in the photos are no longer around.
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
13 Jun 19
I know what you mean but after the pain of losing family and friends, it is nice to see the photos of what used to be...
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@florelway (23286)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
13 Jun 19
@PainsOnSlate and remembering the happy moments shared with them.
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@LowRiderX (22903)
• Serbia
6 Jun 19
That's really nice. We also like to travel and we teach our daughter to like that. Saint Augustine, he said nicely: The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page
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@PainsOnSlate (21852)
• Canada
13 Jun 19
I agree, I enjoy traveling and if I can't get there I do read only a page.
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@LowRiderX (22903)
• Serbia
13 Jun 19
@PainsOnSlate I'm glad. Everything nice can be seen and learned a lot of things
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