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On The Road – Steve from Mendocino – Promotional shots of San Diego county tourist attractions (for class)

by WaterGirl|  June 9, 20205:00 am| 21 Comments

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You may recall some lovely Birds in Black & White from the middle of May, which feels like a hundred years ago.  So perhaps it’s fitting that we have photos today that are 50 years old.  It’s been a rough few weeks, but there is much to celebrate!  ~WaterGirl

Steve from Mendocino

The class field trip to San Diego that produced my bird pictures from the zoo also included an assignment to create photos for an imaginary brochure for the city of San Diego. These are the ones that I still enjoy seeing. These shots are all 50 years old.

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This first picture is of the Botanical Building in Balboa Park.

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I was wandering around in the harbor and came across these guys busing their fishing nets.

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Rough and ready hand carved tackle box.

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Scripps pier at Lajolla Beach at sunset.

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Night shot of San Diego skyline across the bay.

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UCSD.  My ex wife had an office on the bottom floor of this building.  She was a student teacher of conversational French during the year that I was enrolled at UCSD.

On The Road - Steve from Mendocino - Promotional shots of San Diego county tourist attractions (for class)

The fountain at Revel College, UCSD.  Revel was the only college open that year.  Only 2,000 students.  I parted company with UCSD over a philosophical question of whether learning course material was more important than hanging out with hippy buddies, smoking pot, philosophizing, listening to music, taking the free shuttle from campus to the beach, etc..  Art school followed, once I’d repaired my GPA at Los Angeles City College.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    June 9, 2020 at 6:18 am

    Oooh, classic B&W. Beautiful.

  2. 2.

    Amir Khalid

    June 9, 2020 at 6:38 am

    1960 seems like a different world now. These photos feel like that other world sent out a Voyager mission with these images for us to wonder at.

  3. 3.

    JPL

    June 9, 2020 at 6:38 am

    Fun pics and the photos of UCSD are wonderful. You should share them with the school.

  4. 4.

    satby

    June 9, 2020 at 7:09 am

    @Baud: yes! B&W is a favorite of mine too. Studied Adam’s zone system in photography school and still think it highlights some detail better than color. Almost two entirely different art forms in the same medum.

  5. 5.

    Auntie Anne

    June 9, 2020 at 7:44 am

    These are wonderful, Steve.

  6. 6.

    arrieve

    June 9, 2020 at 7:49 am

    I love these pictures — they have such a dreamy quality.

  7. 7.

    Laura Too

    June 9, 2020 at 8:33 am

    Lovely, thank you!

  8. 8.

    tokyocali (formerly tokyo expat)

    June 9, 2020 at 8:50 am

    Thank you so much! I have childhood memories of the bay and the fish industry. As an Italian, I spent a lot of time around Little Italy. San Diego downtown has changed so much since then. I’m glad to see the revitalization, but I definitely feel nostalgia for seeing these photos.

  9. 9.

    Wag

    June 9, 2020 at 10:00 am

    spectacular!  I love shooting B+W.

  10. 10.

    Miss Bianca

    June 9, 2020 at 10:00 am

    Yow! These are great!

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    Avalie

    June 9, 2020 at 10:48 am

    Lovely pics, especially as my daughter graduates from UCSD (also Revelle) this weekend.

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    Steve from Mendocino

    June 9, 2020 at 11:12 am

    @satby: Interestingly, Adams was the head of the photography department before I arrived at Art Center.  I always wondered what it would have been like under him.

  13. 13.

    trollhattan

    June 9, 2020 at 11:22 am

    Like #2 & 4 the best, they give me a feel of the place.

  14. 14.

    frosty

    June 9, 2020 at 11:39 am

    Cool pictures! I was living in San Diego (Ocean Beach) at just about that time. Broke and looking for work during Nixon’s recession.

    B/W seems like a better medium for night photography.

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    Beth

    June 9, 2020 at 11:56 am

    These are lovely, but am thinking of my day trip to Mendocino the other day. Wish I could be ‘from Mendocino’, too! The beauty there is incomparable.
    Well, maybe just look for a cabin to rent, and dream….

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    Steve from Mendocino

    June 9, 2020 at 2:24 pm

    @Beth: I’m planning to post some Mendocino pictures here eventually, if we all live that long. I’ve got lots of old work that I’m hoping to post first. In the meantime, anytime you need a Mendo hit, you can always go here: Mendocino Portfolio

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    DCA

    June 9, 2020 at 2:42 pm

    Since the comments have Adams, and UCSD, how about Adams at UCSD? UC had him photograph all the campuses in 1966 (for the UC Centennial) and published a book of them (title is Fiat Lux, google  “Adams  Fiat Lux” ). UC Riverside holds the negatives (shows up on same search).

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    BigJimSlade

    June 9, 2020 at 3:46 pm

    @Steve from Mendocino: so you parted ways from UCSD and its Revel college for more reveling, huh? And somehow ended up in Mendocino, hmm. LOL. Lovely shots – thanks!

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    BigJimSlade

    June 9, 2020 at 3:51 pm

    @Steve from Mendocino: My sister got married at the Albion Inn on the bluffs overlooking the sea – we stayed at the Mendocino Hotel and had a bonfire at the beach that night (a little over 20 years ago).

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    Steve from Mendocino

    June 9, 2020 at 6:06 pm

    @BigJimSlade: Nice.  I was around then, although not taking pictures.  We moved there in early 91 after I’d sold my business.  I wanted to move to France.  My wife wanted to move to Vermont.  We settled on Mendocino.  Turns out it was the best choice for both of us.  I ate at Albion River Inn a number of times during that period, although I preferred Cafe Beaujolais, where we had a standing Thursday night reservation.  It’s been a nice place to grow old.

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    BigJimSlade

    June 9, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    @Steve from Mendocino:

    I wanted to move to France.  My wife wanted to move to Vermont.  We settled on Mendocino.

    I love it!

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