bob left behind 8mm reels

and my dad boxed with big boppers!

Technology changes are exhausting eh?

How do you keep up with the family archives?

My grandfather Bob was pretty high tech back in his day.

Even in the 1950’s he had a Keystone Olympic 8mm film camera. For the longest time we had tins of film stashed in the basement.

In the 1980’s my dad had this transferred to Betamax. Given that Betamax was a major consumer flop, it was considered a poor choice given the dominance of VHS tapes.

But VHS tapes? They didn’t last either. Luckily though, the old film was transferred from Beta to VHS.

I’m not sure that the images ever made the journey from VHS to DVD. I do know one thing - you won’t find those moving images on Youboob or Wuhanchat.

I watched them once.

I saw silent films of two young boys who looked a lot alike - my dad and his twin brother. They were wearing big, puffy boxing gloves - big boppers - according to my dad.

They were surrounded by men in old fashioned clothes.

Hell, everything I saw seemed old fashioned and blurry.

But I guess memori…