Today marks my Dad’s birthday. He was born June 5, 1933. This is my tribute to his daring spirit. Have you ever wondered where his restless spirit came from? He wanted to move 1500 miles away. There was a day I did not care about that, but such day has long past.
Below is the first of four rolls of 8mm film taken on this vacation the family took in August 1969 from McClure, Ohio to New Mexico. The film was only 3 minute 27 seconds long. I stretched it out and added some music. I made no cuts or deletions.
This was fun to produce. I feel like a detective, eager to identify every place and person in each frame.
- There is an unfamiliar face around the 55 second mark. Do you know who this is?
- What do you remember about this trip?
- And before the trip, as the film starts, there is a clip from where?
If you know the answer or would like to comment, please do down below.
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I started to look up some of the places shown in the film to see what they look like today, but I stopped because I wanted to get this posted on Dad’s birthday.
The story of Jesse James, J. Frank Dalton, and Rudy Turilli was then assembled into the Jesse James Wax Museum, which opened in 1964. It has outlived both Rudy and his wife Francena, and is now owned by a second generation of Turillis. Like their parents, they seem in no way inclined to alter their position. Rudy, dead since 1972, still speaks defiantly in the museum’s introductory video: “Beyond a shadow of a doubt I can prove to the world that he [Jesse James] did not die until 1951!”
Copied on 2025-06-05 from Jesse James Wax Museum, Stanton, Missouri
So, what do you remember about this trip?
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