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28 July 2008, 10:42
Brant
Tanzania - 1961 Safari
Here are some more pictures from my family's archives. This was a safari in Tanzania in 1961. Unfortunately, I don't have many details on this one. Still sorting through nearly 3,000 slides from various trips.

























28 July 2008, 12:05
Nitehawk
Thank you for sharing these with us!


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28 July 2008, 15:59
Nickudu
Great!! I wish this was done more often.
Thanks for sharing! thumb
28 July 2008, 16:49
Ahmed Sultan
Super, thanks for sharing.


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28 July 2008, 17:00
sactoller
Thanks for posting!


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28 July 2008, 17:04
Mad Dog
Wow! Neat pics! Wonder what it cost to hunt there, in 1961? Wink

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28 July 2008, 17:12
Colin Castelli
These photos are great, please keep them coming as you wade though the 'box o slides'
28 July 2008, 18:24
shootaway
thumbThis guy knew how to safari.You can tell by the look on his face that he is having fun.
28 July 2008, 18:30
dsiteman
Those photos and the memories that spring up, that's what it's all about!! Much appreiate your sharing them. Look forward to more!
28 July 2008, 18:55
Kathi
FANTASTIC!!!!Please post more photos. Thanks.


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28 July 2008, 18:58
Highbrass
Ditto, please continue to share as you are going through the slides: Great images!


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28 July 2008, 19:01
Aspen Hill Adventures
Very nice, even if it happened before I was born!


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28 July 2008, 19:12
adrook
I love these old pictures. Thanks for sharing. That was also before I was born.
28 July 2008, 19:17
Gerhard.Delport
Thank you for sharing.

That is an awesome Eland.


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28 July 2008, 20:19
AfricanHunter
Oh, the memories of that old camp site, bring back back the memories of the first few trips over there when it was still the common way of doing it.

Thanksa a bunch
28 July 2008, 20:28
JBoutfishn
quote:
Very nice, even if it happened before I was born!


Ouch! I was in college beer A dose of reality, thanks for sharing thumb


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28 July 2008, 20:47
silwane
These are fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing. I love these old pictures of Africa. I once dated a girl whose grandparents were good friends of Barry Brooks. Anyhow, they somehow had many old black and white pictures of Barry Brooks on safari. My favorite was a roughly 20x24 picture of Mr Brooks with a huge tusker well over the 100lb mark. I asked for this picture but to no avail. However for christmas I recieved a black rhino foot made into storage container that was given to them by Mr. Brooks.
Africa during the "golden age" what an experience it must have been....



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28 July 2008, 20:54
Steve
Those are very cool. Thanks for sharing.


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28 July 2008, 21:28
Charles_Helm
Thanks for another great set of pictures. I look forward to more if you dig them out of the box.


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28 July 2008, 21:39
Bwana Nderobo
These are priceless!! Please post more. My safari to the Selous was great, but I would have loved to seen this!!


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28 July 2008, 21:52
Nickudu
quote:
Originally posted by silwane:
These are fantastic. Thank you so much for sharing. I love these old pictures of Africa. I once dated a girl whose grandparents were good friends of Barry Brooks. Anyhow, they somehow had many old black and white pictures of Barry Brooks on safari. My favorite was a roughly 20x24 picture of Mr Brooks with a huge tusker well over the 100lb mark. I asked for this picture but to no avail. However for christmas I recieved a black rhino foot made into storage container that was given to them by Mr. Brooks.
Africa during the "golden age" what an experience it must have been....


Might that be Berry Brooks?
28 July 2008, 22:54
silwane
I assume yes, I was not sure on the spelling.



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29 July 2008, 02:01
DC300
Those were the days...


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01 August 2008, 09:22
Michael Robinson


Oddly enough, that is my favorite photo. Philip Morris and the duiker.

Thanks for posting these intensely nostalgic images.


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01 August 2008, 09:33
doccash
Very interesting as well as great photo quality, I would like to see more. Dr.C


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01 August 2008, 10:32
Brant
MR,

I am glad you and many others have enjoyed the photos from these safaris. So far, I have scanned over 4300 slides from various trips that my father and grandfather made, most from the late 50's through the mid-70's.

I've been very pleasantly surprised by the quality of the slides. I know my grandfather used high quality camera gear, but many of these photos date back 40 or 50 years. I can only imagine the fun he would have had with our modern digital cameras!

I am waiting on another shipment of slides from my father - I think I have most of the safaris covered now, but I am anxious to see what else is out there. So many of these trips are ones I've heard bits and pieces of over the years - it's been a lot of fun for me to see the images, and my father is able to recall many more details of the trips with the pictures in front of him - not that he's an old guy (in case he reads this post).

Perhaps I will ask Saeed if it would be OK to post more pictures in the Photo Album section of AR. I think there are over 500 pictures from the Botswana, just under 500 from Tanzania, and close to 600 from another trip to Ethiopia and Kenya. Many are of the same animal or scene and need to be sorted out, but there are a lot more pictures that I haven't posted yet.

Other than the safaris, I have been amazed at the photos from a trip to northern BC in 1958. They spent 28 days on a multi-species hunt - what an adventure that must have been! I think everyone took caribou, and stone sheep, several shot grizzlies and mountain goats, and at least one got a moose.

Brant


quote:
Originally posted by mrlexma:


Oddly enough, that is my favorite photo. Philip Morris and the duiker.

Thanks for posting these intensely nostalgic images.

01 August 2008, 10:38
L. David Keith
thumb This is better than watching an original Tarzan movie! Thanx a million Brant.
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01 August 2008, 21:33
Atkinson
Great stuff,
I am assuming that hunt was in the Masai Mara. I love the old pictures..

My old friend Robert Retinauer (hope I spelled it right) of Ft. Worth, Texas who was for many years a PH in Kenya and perhaps in Tanzania also guided royalty in the old days and he has pictures of a heck of a lot of 100 pound plus elephants they shot, and one that weighed about 140 lbs as I recall..

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01 August 2008, 23:58
Bwanna
Those are absolutely priceless. Thanks for sharing them. Please post others. We all enjoy looking at them.


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02 August 2008, 03:08
308Sako
Brant, I hope that the memories these evoke of your family are as warm as they are inviting. Very special lot these pictures.

Thanks






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02 August 2008, 03:27
Brant
308Sako,

It has been a lot of fun. The vast majority of the trips were done before I was born - it's been a look into my family's history, and a real treat. I am glad you and others on this forum are enjoying them!

Brant
03 August 2008, 05:52
jetdrvr
quote:
Originally posted by JBoutfishn:
quote:
Very nice, even if it happened before I was born!


Ouch! I was in college beer A dose of reality, thanks for sharing thumb


I was jumping out of airplanes at Ft. Bragg.

Thanks for the great pics.
03 August 2008, 06:13
kudu4u
Truly wonderful old pictures I enjoyed. I was 5 at the time and love the old stuff. I have a question to all about the beautiful zebra. Why no shadow stripes? Is that a mountain zebra or do the Burchell's in Tanzania have no shadow stripes? Thanks much!


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03 August 2008, 23:03
Showbart
Who's the PH?
04 August 2008, 00:59
Aziz
Hello Brant

Thank you for posting these photographs. I enjoyed them very much.

Regards
Aziz


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04 August 2008, 06:54
Dr. Mike H.
I am surprised. Any number of you called the Klipspringer a duiker. Whats the deal??
04 August 2008, 07:05
Michael Robinson
To answer a couple of questions:

Many if not most Tanzanian plains zebra have no shadow stripes.

And that is most assuredly a duiker, and not a klipspringer.


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04 August 2008, 08:15
Aziz
mrlexma, it is a Kirk's dik dik from Tanzania.

I shot one a few years ago.



Regards
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04 August 2008, 08:45
Ahmed Sultan
quote:
mrlexma, it is a Kirk's dik dik from Tanzania.


Spot on Aziz Sahib, I also shot one on my last trip to Tanzania.


Ahmed Sultan
04 August 2008, 19:09
Michael Robinson
Aziz and Ahmed, yes, now that I look at it and Aziz's too, it does look more like a Kirk's dik dik than a common duiker.


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