Early Photos of Interests
Compliments and Comments by
Pete LaCore
Check out this Sailor. I guess it must have been cool to wear a helmet! These are 3 inch 50's installed in Philly in 1953. They sure didn't stay on very long. They replaced the 40MM quads and duels that we had in Korea. (Editors note: This can't be Pete, can it?)
I found a bunch of 35mm slide pictures that I took with an Argus C3 camera 55 years ago. I took some of them to Wal-Mart and had prints made of them. They all came out clear as a bell!
The guy on the right, Carl Grothe, was my gun captain in Mt 53, a former Laffey member. His last reunion was in Vegas, died of cancer shortly after that. The clown in the middle is Joe Calise, he was a professional fisherman from California. The guy on the left is from Minnesota! Or I should say was! Now he’s alive and well in Kentucky! (Editor note: Not Pete, again?!)
Needless to say I’m enjoying the slides that I found, and want to share some of them. I have some taken in Hong Kong where the tallest building was about six stories, and Waikiki Beach in Hawaii where all that was there was a small two story motel.
Damn I’m old! ...Pete
