More Classmates

Here are 2 of photomates taken in winter 1958. Top photo shows L-R Stan "Crow" Ballenger, Donald "Abe" Lincoln and I don't know the one on the right but both Ballenger and Lincoln went to the FDR shortly before I did and I'm still in touch with them. Stan is in #2 as well. All are admiring those wonderful old Speeds we used. Either no one had their name in the film holder or it was cropped out. Lincoln sent these to me several years ago.
Larry B.

More Classmates

More photos from Larry B.
Top photo: Left to Right, is James T. Hardee, Scot Cary and myself in the lab aboard the Forrestal, I went over to visit thus all in undress blues, while she was visiting in Mayport around the time you were in Photo School. The 3 of us were in the same class and trained as PHA but were assigned to ships as were all the aerial trainees while all the PHG trainees went to squadrons.....go figure. Cary and Hardee went to the Forrestal and I went to the FDR.

Bottom photo: Our class marching at photo school. Only names I can pick out besides the 3 of us is Howard McDonald who I was in Norman with and who also went to the FDR.

Pensacola

Here's a photo of the Beach at Pensacola sent in by Larry Blumenthal PH3



Larry writes

The nicest beach I was ever on with the exception of Cuba in 1949 as a kid.
The only one I can name is Cary.

Photo School

Larry Blumenthal who has a couple of Navy web sites http://www.usnavyphotos.com/ and http://www.ussfranklindroosevelt.com/ (see links) sent in these two photos that he took in May of 2007. The building really looks in great shape.
Here is his comments.

Here's 2 of the school I took in May 2007. It was still being used as a school but it seemed like there were foreign military personnel attending.
Larry

What is it?

All you "Old Salts" or better known as Real Photographers will recognize this reliable piece of equipment as our trustworthy Speed Graphic.
It was also a weapon at times. When there was a crowd of news photographers at a press conference or a dignitary arrival no one got in your way after you bumped them on the head once with this camera.
The Speed Graphic was a great camera and very versatile. Using the wire "sports finder" you never missed a shot. The lens was good for close-ups 1:1 and did good portrait work too.

Naval Photographic Interpretation Center

Here's a Season's Greetings Card from the crew at NPIC Naval Photographic Interpretation Center in Suitland, MD where I was stationed after "A" School.
The front of the card has the names and rank and the inside has the photographs of us "prisoners". I enlarged this more than the outside so you might be able to recognize some of the faces if you don't remember the name.
I don't see a couple of guys that I thought would be in this photo, but I remember that not all PH's were assigned to the Lab.
I remember a couple assigned to the Library and some assigned the Map Dept.
I hope that you can see an old PH buddy here.
I was not yet a PO (petty officer) as you can see, but I was a po (pee on)
Stev please note....ED Atchison is on the card.

David Posey

OK ,Here is one more of our friend David Posey. He now has his 15 minutes of fame.

I believe I took this picture while we were stationed at NPIC together.

ABOUT THE BLOG

I just wanted to take this time to let everyone know that I am still learning how to manage the blog and make entries etc. I have been concentrating on the Photo School Building and classmates for now but if anyone has anything they want to share during their time of service please feel free to send it in to me. You might not have been a PH but you have some photos and stories that relate.
Maybe you even knew a PH and have photos or stories about him or the Photo Lab where you were assigned.
There is going to be different Labels assigned to every category, so if your subject is not about the
School or Classmates I will still publish it and in the archive it will come up under a category that pertains to what you sent in. I hope this makes sense.

Photo Classmates

Sarj,

Here are a couple more Pensacola scenes.

At top is the pool just up the hill from our barracks.

Below we have Richard? Moll and Roger Olds polishing the floor in our barracks.

Stev

Photo Classmates

Sarj,

If you look closely at these, you might be able to recognize your buddy and my Pensacola classmate. These are of Dave clambering around Fort Barrancas. If I remember right, we ignored some signs that said to stay out of the fort.

Stev

Above are some more pictures sent in by my buddy Stev of his classmates and my life long friend David Posey who was stationed with me at Navy Photo Interpretation Center in Suitland, MD.
The day Stev sent these in I was on the phone with Dave and he was thinking of calling me to ride along with him to MD. We both lived in the Washington D.C. area for a long time before he moved to the Clearwater FL area and I moved to Jacksonville area.

Photo Classmates

I made a mistake on the name of the guy in the middle picture that Stev sent in of his classmates in photo school. See my comment. I thought his name was Richard Atkins but it was actually Ed Atchison from Tacoma Washington.
ED wrote his name on the back of this washed out color photo I guess so I would remember. After blowing the print up I am convinced that it his him in the center photo getting his hair cut by Roger Olds. This photo was taken in "The Bad Lands" of South Dakota on our way to CA where Ed took a tain norht to home and I went on to San Fran to ship out to Taiwan.

I found some more photos of the school building. I am still amazed that the Navy would let a building get so worn down and dirty. I know that everyone in the Navy knows how to paint and clean. Anyway I am glad to see it is looking better today, thanks to photo from
Randy and the video clip on You tube.

Hello,

Came upon your Photomate stuff and thought I'd share this with you. Recently flew into Pensacola for vacation and kinda sneaked past the "no visitors" sign and took a couple of pictures. The building looks fine. Taken 6-24-09 about 7:00 am. I graduated November 1974 or there about.

Randy Searcy