Long Intro (golf content below): My maternal grandfather was a total shutter bug, and back in the 1950s he took a series of summer driving trips from Cincinnati to the Western US and Canada. During those trips he hit every conceivable spot you can think of (in no particular order): Mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Mt. Hood, Mt. Rainier, Seattle, Lake Louise, Canadian Rockies, Rocky Mountain National Park, The Bad Lands, Crater Lake, San Francisco, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, The Hoover Dam, The Petrified Forest, The Painted Desert, Zion National Park, and more........ You name it -- they saw it. During these trips he took over 1,000 photos (remember this was the days of FILM and not digital) and had them mounted onto medium format slides. I can remember as a little boy looking at the slides when I was over at my grandmother's house and was always fascinated by them.
As a Christmas gift to my mom I scanned all the slides into a digital format to preserve them, and I also had a photo book made of some of the best. Some of the photos are simply stunning -- the cover of magazines type stuff. You can see a gallery of the photos here:
http://www.photobin.com/jpflumjr/grid?galleries=21730#homeAnyway, here is the golf content: As I was scanning I came across some photos of my grandparents playing golf at Banff Springs in what would have been 1954. There was also a photo of my grandmother labeled "Crystal Downs". I know they also took trips to Michigan but I can't readily identify that this is from my second-favorite-golf-course-on-the-planet. I knew that my grandfather played but I didn't know about my grandmother. I've played Crystal Down as few times and I know that there are others here who have as well. Could this be taken from somewhere near the clubhouse? Or perhaps near the 18th tee? I think that is Lake Michigan in the background but I'm not sure of the perspective.
Here are the golf photos:
http://www.pbase.com/jpflumjr/old_photosNothing to discuss just some interesting artifacts.
jvdp