Now listen up again. There are many images here and most have many faces in them. That's many. Don't try to do all of this new section in a sitting. About 85% of the negatives from 1988 have been put up since we have the luxury of room. That's a load of them. Attempting to view all this new material at once would be boring. Maybe it will be boring anyway! Peck at the new section sipping coffee and lingering over each photograph.
Though it might not seem so, preparing these photographs and assembling the pages burns up much time. Many of the fine afternoons in the glorious Summer of 2004 were been spent indoors working over this site. It is for that reason, time, that all the old negatives from 1963 which were not originally scanned with this first quality equipment and those not scanned at all in the original iteration have not yet been put up. They are coming, be assured, and there is a fair number of them. As you can understand, the first priority for man hours went into digitizing all the negatives, burning them to d.v.d. and placing that treasure into a safety deposit box. That work has now been accomplished.
Wait until you see the improvement in quality of those grotty old images on in the original 1999 pages! Remember that technically terrible picture of Pat Daniel and Sandra Schutz putting up a library display? It's fixed and now there is a whole sequence available of the girls putting up that display in the long, long ago.
Here's a teaser!
Can it be? Yes, Oak Bay Village late on a bleak and cheerless afternoon at Christmas time, 1962. Did the Village really look this dowdy? Oak Bay Avenue has already been modernized by widening leaving the utility poles out in the street. Can you recall an ongoing beef about this? Wasn't it that the utility company wanted the Municipality to pay for moving the poles saying that the poles were just where they should be and it was the Municipality that had moved the road and so had to pay? There's no cable yet, look at all the Yagi-Udas serving the suites above Mr. Harness' hardware store. Cedar boughs adorn the poles but somehow they don't look so much festive as forlorn. English cars? The second war had been over hardly seventeen years and Canada's largest volume of imported cars, such as it was, still came from the U.K.
