Carol with her brand new Canon AE-1 – 1978
Just back from a trip to the Navy Exchange… Carol’s first 35 mm SLR and she’s all smiles!
Our on-base house in Yokohama, Naka-ku, Honmoku, Japan.
Thanks for stopping by! – Chris & Carol
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When Carol and I lived in Yokohama in the late 1970s, a wonderful local artist made these dolls for us. We’ve kept them in a glass display cabinet all of these years and they remind us of how much we enjoyed our time there. Such artistry! Dolls photographed with my Samsung Galaxy S4 camera.
Morning glory on the garden shed – Yokohama 1978. The door was salvaged from the local Navy Lodge from their vast trove of bits and pieces in the maintenance office. This image is scanned from a picture I took with my Kodak EK4 instant camera on Kodak film. Kodaks brief foray into instant photography.
Unrelated to the dolls, here’s the garden shed that I built for Carol. The Housing Office on the Navy base that we lived on in the Naka ward in Yokohama had free wood that you could use for projects such as this and the fence you see to its right. The lumber was free and so was the paint – only one color was available so everything was painted the same color in the neighborhood!
Stacked sky high!
While on a walkabout on the backstreets in our neighborhood we discovered this “wall” of crates just outside of a bar. The image was taken with my Canon F-1 on Kodachrome film – 1978.
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From the Spring of 1979 – one of the rare times I was home during the Sakura Season in Japan.
Sankei-en in Yokohama
Along Avenue D – Honmoku, Naka-ku, Yokohama
Beautiful Sankei-en (Gardens)
We were very fortunate to live just a short bicycle ride from Sankei-en and although I was seldom home during the Spring we would always find time to spend the day there.
Camera: Canon F-1 with Canon FD lenses on Kodak Kodachrome film.
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Chris and Carol
As a tie-in to a recent post by our friend Peggy at Camera Go Camera of our old neighborhood (US Navy Area 2 Military Base Housing) in Japan. Here’s a picture of our house at 283-D Area 2 after a rare light snowfall.
Our US Navy base house in Honmoku, Naka-Ku, Yokohama from May 1977 to February 1980. We were the last Navy family to live there as the US Navy was in the process of turning over control of the land to the Japanese Government.
US Navy housing Area 2 looking east towards the bay. This part of Yokohama was still very industrial in the late 1970s. Our house is the blue two-story in the middle left. This shot was taken on a nice and steamy hot August day.
Camera: Canon F-1 on Kodachrome 25 color slide film
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Chris and Carol
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A small collection of recently “found” images from our time spent living in Yokohama.
Happy me with my new Canon F-1 and Canon FD 80-200mm zoom lens.
Carol checking out the wall of crates outside a local liquor store.
Gift Box shopping.
Nice watches for a great price.
¥ 360 to the $
Carol always had pretty flowers at our house.
Carol’s potting shed that I built for her.
Carol busy at her desk.
We completely enjoyed our time in Japan. A once in a lifetime experience that we still treasure to this day. We lived at 283-D, Area 2, Honmoku, Naka-ku Yokohama from May 1977 to February 1980.
All smiles… Chris and Carol ^.^
Escape the hustle of the big city – Sankei-en is Yokohama’s beautiful gem.
Soon the sakura and azalea will bloom. Photographers will come. School children and couples. Families love Sankei-en.
It was a pleasant ride to Sankei-en from our house so we went often.
Admission – 100 yen. All smiles.
Sakura from long ago. Avenue D in Naka-ku, Honmoku. 1979
Spring returns to Sankei-en soon. The blossoms will be everywhere. Come to this spot and enjoy!
Images from 1978 and 1979. Canon F-1 and Canon AE-1. Kodak Kodachrome film.
Thank you for your visit.
Chris & Carol ^.^
Oil refinery as seen from the hill behind our house in Naka-ku, Honmoku, Yokohama. Canon F-1 (1978 version) with Canon FD 80-200mm f/4 zoom lens on Kodak Ektachrome at about 5 seconds at f/16. As best as we can tell, the refinery is still there today.
Chris and Carol ^.^
Carol and I lived in Yokohama from 1977 to early 1980. We have such wonderful memories of our time living there – memories that still make us smile today. Specifically, we lived in US Navy Housing Area 2 (283-D) which was in Honmoku, Naka-ku. Back then it was an industrial area with a refinery (see pic below) close by and of course the port with its thousands of automobiles and small trucks waiting to ship out to the States.
Oil refinery as seen from a hill near our house.
Here, in no particular order, are some street scenes in and around ‘Yoko’. We can tell from our Google Earth visits, that the area has changed dramatically since the Navy left in 1982. There’s an elementary school where our house once stood and the houses we see now are big by what we considered big for Japanese houses back in the late 1970s. All of these images were shot using my Canon F-1 or Carol’s AE-1. We used Kodak Kodachrome and Ektachrome slide film as shooting with color negative film was beyond my Sailor’s pay.
Enjoy this trip back in time and please forgive us if our memory of the exact location is wrong. ^.^
Avenue D, 16, headed straight to Sakuragicho and right to Kamiakin and Yamashita.
A gas station along Avenue D, located just across the road from our base housing. We would tell people who were coming to visit us to be on the lookout for the ‘humpin’ turtle’ sign as it was near the turn into the housing area.
A little too close to the local Keihin Kyuko train in Sugita.
We know… a pay phone with a dial!
Driving through one of the many tunnels along Avenue D (16) from Yokosuka to Yokohama.
Area 2, US Navy base housing, Yokohama. Our house is the middle of the three two-story houses on the left. The bay, port and the refinery can be seen through the haze in the distance. Honmoku Elementary School 横浜市立本牧小学校 is located here now.
Thanks for your visit – time travel can be such fun! We have a video on Sony Betamax tape that we will have transferred to digital (soon). Lots of neat shots around town with rides on the bus and trains and a walk through a local shopping street. Stay tuned!
Chris and Carol ^.^
Memories of our time in Japan – 1977 to 1980. We lived in Yokohama, Naka-ku. Lovely place. Wonderful people. Every day an adventure. As I read current blogs from Japan, it strikes me that so many signs are now in English. Back in the day (as they say) that wasn’t the case. These two signs were within walking distance of major U.S. Navy installations. No English. No problem. I’m sorry to say that we never learned to read kanji or katakana but we at least learned what the kanji characters looked like for where we wanted to be.
Yokosuka train station, Keihin Kyuko Line schedule heading north to Yokohama.
I always tried for the “green” trains at 15, 35 and 55 after the hour. These were the fastest to Yoko!
Waiting for Bus 8 to Yokohama train station. We knew to look for the kanji character that looked like an old style camera on a tripod as that was Yokohama. Hey it worked!
Bus driver giving me the look.
This was the only sign that I can remember that had English on it near our house in Yokohama. BTW, it was a hot, hazy and humid summer day on the Kanto Plain that day.
Anyway, no complaints here, but as you can see not much in the way of English (none actually). That was Japan in the late 1970s. We had a blast!
Thanks for your visit!
Chris and Carol ^.^
Chasing Classic Cameras with Chris 