Roddin’ at Random – by Pat Ganahl

Excerpted from Pat Ganahl’s column “Roddin’ at Random”.
Logo and excerpt used with permission.

You never know what’s going to turn up in one of these columns. And sometimes neither do I. Oh, I have running lists of topic ideas, and small stacks of photos and info waiting their turn–some too long. But then something pops up that is fresh, newsy, or requested that catches my attention or has some immediate urgency.

Well, that’s not what we’re going to do today. For some reason–heat wave? Fire? Homebound?–I got the idea to play archive roulette. It goes like this:  I’ve mentioned that my extensive photo collection is housed in many ways in several places. But a good portion, all older stuff, fills two tall file cabinets in a corner of my garage, 10 filled file drawers in all. So I decided to pick one drawer at random, open it, thumb through the files inside, and select the first one that grabbed my attention and had enough material for this week’s column.

Read the full column HERE