[AT] Image from the past

Gene Dotson gdotsly at watchtv.net
Thu Feb 24 14:14:29 PST 2011


    Mike;
    I believe Jim is right on the year. Would have been August, 1998. and 
definately at Portland. My first year was 1999 and many I haven't met since 
I have been going.

            Gene



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 2:34 PM
Subject: [AT] Image from the past


> Lucile Monson was going through some old photos and came across one that
> Cecil took and labeled. She thought I might be interested and scanned it
> in and sent it to me as an email attachment. I sent a note to Jim Becker
> and Steve Offiler to see if they could pinpoint the date and location.
>
> I put the image up in my Cecil Monson album:
> <http://public.fotki.com/mikesloane/cecil_monson_1930-2005/portland-show.html>
>
> Steve replied:
>
> > For a while there, I was getting out to Portland every other year.  I
> > believe, no actually I am pretty sure, it was '96, '98, '00.  By the
> > time '02 rolled around I was very busy with finishing up the
> > renovation of my house in Scituate RI...
> >
> > I do not believe this image was from '96, mostly because I drove out
> > that year with Jim Thomson and I believe he'd also be in the shot.
> > That leaves '98 and '00.
> >
>
> Jim replied:
>
> > That picture was taken at the Portland IN show, August of whatever
> >  year it was.  I have pictures of my own from 2001.  I think I have
> > been there twice. The first one was before I had a digital camera,
> > thus no easy to find and date pictures of my own from the first
> > time.  However, I believe my first time was 1998.  Since this group
> > shot is not in the same location as my group shot from 2001, I think
> > this was 1998.
> >
> > 1998 was the year of the well traveled ATIS boxes.  Here are a couple
> > of Dean Vinson's pages, one from Portland that year and the other
> > travels of a box.  You will even find yourself on the second page.
> > http://www.vinsonfarm.net/portland98_atis.html
> > http://www.vinsonfarm.net/atisbox.html
>
> So, if anyone can nail down the actual date, let me know so I can
> correct the record. And if anyone wants their very own copy, send me a
> note off-line to <mikesloane at verizon.net>. I have asked Lucile for a
> little bit larger scan without the glass and frame, so I may be able to
> replace the image with a better one in the future.
>
> Mike
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