Our First Trip To The Beach

Lately, I came across Dad's old slides and videos. I bought a slide scanner and spent 3 days scanning old slides. Some I don't even remember. They are unfortunately badly degraded and it's been difficult to revive them using software. These are the best I can do not being a professional. At least you can see them and I'm thankful I'm able to do at least this much.

My Dad was a TVA Engineer and we lived all over Tennessee for the first 8 years of my life during the 1960's. We moved to Spartanburg when I was 8 yrs old and we've lived here ever since. But a trip to the beach from Tennessee to Myrtle Beach, SC was a very long trip with 3 little girls in the days before interstate highways! They planned a week's vacation and went to the expense of a hotel. We travelled all day. We got exactly one day of the beach and he was called back to work and we had to leave. I remember Mom crying. But here are the photos of us on that one day at the beach. Mom was taking video with the video camera pointed at Dad, while he took still photos with his camera.







Here we were playing in the baby pool at the hotel.












Here are the digital scrapbook pages I made of our first trip to the beach.