Bali Does Moscow in '66
When I was 5 years old, my family moved from Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Tehran, Iran. My dad worked for Fluor, Inc. building oil refineries. In 1966, we went on a 10-day tour of Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev in the former Soviet Union. You can see me in this photograph taken in Red Square (click for larger image), wearing my little sable hat and holding the Fluor sign. My mother and father are standing next to me on the right.
It was one of the greatest experiences of my life, and I have vivid memories of the trip even now, 40 years later, which is fortunate because we have no photographs except for a pack of 19 color postcards that my dad bought after Intourist exposed the film in my mother's camera when they caught her taking pictures of a building that was "under reconstruction" (Soviet-ese for anything they didn't want you to take pictures of).
I decided to scan and upload these postcards today, partly to play with the new gallery software I just installed, but mostly because they're pretty cool and I wanted to share them. You'll note that some don't have English captions, so if you know what's shown in the photograph, leave me a comment.
[Link: 1966 Moscow Postcard Set]
