American elm is trying to get out of the shadow of past diseases

Sue Gremlin

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Wow! I had no idea we had resistant cultivars. That's a great thing. I'll look forward to seeing the first elm tree. :)
We lived in an Elm lined street (as so many people did) called Elm Place. Yes, really. This is a photo of my Mom in the 50s with those trees in the background. Hard to believe they were wiped out all at once like that.
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Teegate

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That is a 50's photo! That is a great photo if it is. Who had color back then, or did you have it altered?

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Sue Gremlin

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It was actually on slide film and yes, there was color back then. Those things preserve perfectly. My sister is a photographer and had access to whatever equipment it took to scan it in.

It's so fresh and crisp, it almost brings her back. :)
 

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I knew there was color, I just never knew anyone who had it. Everyone I know used B&W.

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Sue Gremlin

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My dad was big into photography (he traveled the world) so we have tons of slides. He had good equipment and I think his company bought him slide film. Never thought of that as being unusual then, but I guess it was!
 

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I have quite a large number of Kodachrome slides which my Dad took in the 1950's. Also a lot of color slides that he took in the South Pacific during World War II. I think it was quite common for people to take color pictures back then.

As a kid growing up in St. Louis during the 1950's, our beautiful tree-lined suburban street was also wiped out by the disease.
 
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