Then and now 11: Balkan Miracle

I met this "trike" in the Sixties (Canon FX?) and, alas, no "today" picture - too afraid to go back and see the modern changes because it was sooo beautiful.
Welcome Dungha, incîntat de cunostinta! (Sorry, no`', stupid compy)

"Poor people don't know how picturesque they are", Oscar Wilde...

Then and now 10: Primary School

Well (like I said below) the building is still there. It's an art centre now. (Sigh.)

The old picture is pre-war, when I was there as a Baby Boom Benjamin the trees were bigger. Very nice: we were fighting all the time, but the hospital was opposite. (And no psychologists to tell us that we shouldn't like fighting...)

Then and now 9: Landgoed Heydepark

The estate my father was born, 1908. I hadn't been there for 50 years - but both buildings are still there! And more: an old familiar name still owns it, you can have a nice holiday with the horses, and inside the farmhouse is still that step to break your neck!







On the ±1930 photo below: left my father, right his twin-brother.

Today I had the Praktica + 28mm Albinar
(on rather unsharp FP4 -
I noticed yesterday. Or shall we call that "soft"?)
The small coloured one, the dwelling-house, isn't mine. On the also thirties (top), in front of that house: the new (the picture was made at the funeral of his brother Theodore) paterfamilias, my granduncle. The boss - no tie. In the middle (with a cigarette!): my dad.


(Like to see more of the family?
Look at facebook, Erwin Janssen Ruijs.)


btw: Young Joris Ivens (see below) made his very first film (Wigwam, 1912) probably in the woods of the estate.

Then and now 8: Saturday Night Fever

My saturday evening in 1972: chess-club, and then Berry's snack-bar in Brakkenstein, where very very beautiful Carla Keller fried the chips, sometimes. Grey eyes. I had a FTQL, but never made a picture. Now I have an old FTbQL, but there are just dull houses there. And the street where she lived.
(And look: Seventies: no cars!)

# On the street where you live, Loewe/Lerner 1956

Then and now 7: Diebels

Went to the oldest shop street of the Netherlands again, today, but the 50mm Retina Xenon (1938) was not right for what I planned.



But I found Diebels - not the famous "Altbier" nor the stationer's I once knew, but the 1910 Tabakskerverij the tobacco-carver! Well, that's not PC anymore but the woodwork is still there.


And the girl? Well, she was dancing opposite and isn't she lovely?

Then and now 6: Ivens

The grandfather of world-famous cinematographer Joris Ivens (see Heydepark above) was Wilhelm Ivens, important photographer in Nijmegen in the 19th century.
I found these two pictures: the 1155 St. Martin's chapel, the so-called Barbarossa ruin, and the 1885 bridge nearby. The bridge was destroyed by a truck, years ago, but is now at last repaired;
the Palatinate was demolished two centuries ago and we are still thinking about that.

1976 HB Distagon 60mm

Then and now 5: Pic Pac

Pic Pac for "2 Guys" - who are they? It's >sept 1963 Gevaert, 80 daylight 64 tungsten: not very panchro. Thick black fog - but look what was on top of that!


The 7,5 cm. Tessar in the 1938 Kodak Duo620 is not the right lens for this narrow street, but I wanted to test the film. The street is the oldest shopping street in Nijmegen, many shops are centuries old.






Look at the "young" house with the cornice: even the "bird-houses" are still there!
Above L they're dark, and here R they are white painted.