PJD
Well-Known Member
If Vale46, or anyone else, happens to be on the Planken pedestrian street in Mannheim ...
I'd greatly appreciate your sharing here a present-day COLOR portrait-orientation photograph which closely MATCHES my late father's Dec. 1945 photograph of the building which once held the "American Red Cross Service Club". Note the Wasserturm tower is barely visible in the background through the mist. The note written on the back is in Italian for the benefit of his Italian-American immigrant parents.
I've attached aerial views to help you identify the building's present-day location.
With your permission, I hope to send a digital copy of your COLOR photo to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans when I donate my father's original paper print to them. I recently donated >200 of my father's original WWII photo prints to the museum, but the ARCSC photo was discovered AFTER I shipped those 100s of photos.
The 1939 "Detrola" camera my father used during WWII is pictured below. It used 35mm film, but the negatives may have been exposed as half-frames. My brother has the camera, 3,000 miles from where I live.
Thanks in advance!
I'd greatly appreciate your sharing here a present-day COLOR portrait-orientation photograph which closely MATCHES my late father's Dec. 1945 photograph of the building which once held the "American Red Cross Service Club". Note the Wasserturm tower is barely visible in the background through the mist. The note written on the back is in Italian for the benefit of his Italian-American immigrant parents.
I've attached aerial views to help you identify the building's present-day location.
With your permission, I hope to send a digital copy of your COLOR photo to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans when I donate my father's original paper print to them. I recently donated >200 of my father's original WWII photo prints to the museum, but the ARCSC photo was discovered AFTER I shipped those 100s of photos.
The 1939 "Detrola" camera my father used during WWII is pictured below. It used 35mm film, but the negatives may have been exposed as half-frames. My brother has the camera, 3,000 miles from where I live.
Thanks in advance!
- Canon - LiDE 300
- Canon - LiDE 300
