button at the upper rightPhotos taken by James Louis Blilie,
Japan 1952-1953
All images are copyright © James W. Blilie, 2010, All rights reserved
My Dad was stationed in Japan for much of 1952 and 1953. He brought a 1946(?) Chrysler with
him (the USAF paid to move him) and got around in Japan quite a bit. I'm sure having a car helped
him make many friends amongst his Air Force colleagues. He wanted to climb Mt. Fuji (12,388 ft,
trail to the top) but never could convince anyone to go with him and he didn't want to go alone
(which was probably prudent, since he had no climbing experience.)
The pictures are in the order in which my Dad put them into the slide carousels (except some obviously
out of place ones that I grouped with like photos.) These are all scanned from the original
Kodachrome slides. Mostly, the captions here are exactly what my Dad wrote on the slides frames.
I did not crop the slides.
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1940s and 1950s Photos by James L Blilie
Korea and the Philippines 1952-53
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For the slide show: Click on the first picture on the black photo
album
page and then click the "play"
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of the view panel to start the slide show. Enjoy.
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| Election Returns | Maybe patent medicine | Cedar bathtubs | White mice for sale | |
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| John Kasper | Captain James L. Blilie | Captain John Kasper | Lake view | |
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| John Kasper at a tea house | James L Blilie at a tea house | John Kasper | James L. Blilie | Dining service for two |
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| Country Inn and restaurant, James L Blilie | Countryside | Getting ready to plant | Planting | A farmer |
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| Farmstead | A farmer | Rice, just after transplanting | Rice, just after transplanting | Maturing rice |
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| Rice drying before threshing | Threshing rice | Drying rice grains (note the espaliered trees too) | Drying rice grains | Drying rice grains |
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| Flying kites at Yokosuka | Harvesting shellfish near Yokosuka | Beach by ?? Island, swimming in the sea | Beach by ?? Island | "Good clean fun on the beach" |
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| Ready to fly to Korea | Tachikawa night life | Tachikawa night life | Hakone Lake, the road to the lake | A garden |
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| A house | Kofe, where people begin the climb up Mt. Fuji (12,388 ft) | Hotel sign | Fujiyama (Mt. Fuji, 12,388 ft) in the clouds | |
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| Fujiyama (Mt. Fuji, 12,388 ft) | James L Blilie facing Mt. Fuji | Nikko | Nikko | Nikko |
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| Looking north to Mt. Fuji from the air | One of the "Five Lakes" | Tokyo, moat around the Emperor's Palace | TTokyo, moat around the Emperor's Palace | |
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| Pedical driver near the Imperial Palace moat | Tokyo, the Diet | Tokyo Imperial Hotel | Frank Bartolomei and Paul Flood at the Imperial Hotel | Tokyo; the Three Graces |
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| Tokyo | Tokyo, Tachikawa Air Base | Tachikawa Air Base theater, was a wind tunnel | 21st Squadron HQ, Tachikawa Air Base | James L Blilie's Squadron, the 21st, Tachikawa Air Base |
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| Tachikawa Air Base | Tachikawa Air Base | Loran class, Tachikawa Air Base | Officer's Club, Tachikawa Air Base | Officer's Club, Tachikawa Air Base, Smiley's Orchestra |
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| Base HQ, Tachikawa Air Base | Roy Burger and "Ed", Tachikawa Air Base | "Ed" at Tachikawa Air Base | David P Smith at Tachikawa Air Base | Trentman, White, and Kozman, Tachikawa Air Base |
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| James L Blilie at Senoir NCO Club at Tachikawa Air Base | James L Blilie at Tachikawa Air Base | At Tachikawa Air Base | Tachikawa | Tachikawa |
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| Tachikawa | Tachikawa | Tachikawa | Tachikawa | Tachikawa |
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| Tachikawa River | Dam, near Tachikawa | Bridge at dam, near Tachikawa | River near the dam | River recreation area near dam |
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| Mt. Fuji (12,388 ft) in the background | Dyed silk skeins drying | |||
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| Young woman: Ojo-san | Kikyo-san | |||
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| Miyako-san | Mending nets | To Market | "Older man" | |
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| Drying nets | Parasol shop | Lakeside artists | Nikko | |
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| Sakura Day, 1953, John Kasper at left | Sakura Day 1953, James L Blilie, John Kasper and others | On the bridge to ?? Island | View towards mainland from ?? Island | Sakura Day 1953 |
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| Sakura Day 1953 | Sakura Day 1953 | Kamakura | Kamakura | Nara. The world's largest wooden building |
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| Kyoto | Kyoto | Kyoto | Kyoto | Kyoto |
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| Nara | Nara | Nara | Nara, deer and large bronze bell | Country scenes |
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1940s and 1950s Photos by James L Blilie
Korea and the Philippines 1952-53
Background image is Mt. Fuji from the air, 1952
Last updated: 25-Sep-2010
