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lulutza
lulutza 🇷🇴 2019-05-25 14:06
very nice vintage photos ! May I have the pass for the" "Napoli -vedi a poi muori" ? I am also pationed about vintage photography . Parlate ancora l'italiano? .Best regards !
lulutza
lulutza 🇷🇴 2019-05-25 19:08
my email is silvia_91ara@yahoo.com . Thank you !
 
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2019-05-25 20:23 в ответ lulutza
The password for Napoli is mergellina86. (Sono piu' foto di ragazzetti que altro). Si', ancora parlo Italiano. E':meglio dire "Veduta da San Francesco"?
  
lulutza
lulutza 🇷🇴 2019-05-25 21:42 в ответ ducman4988
very impressive work depicting young people's life around italian ports 30-40 years ago, espacially the ones of kids diving for "cozze" ! You have more? Would be very good if you post them Reggards
  
lulutza
lulutza 🇷🇴 2019-05-25 22:14 в ответ ducman4988
Veduta di San Francesco, si

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2022-08-31 23:09
Website: https://www.cattedralegaeta.it/chiese-de lla-cattedrale/san-francesco/ I was going to this church since 1969, when I arrived with the US Navy.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2023-06-01 15:33
That's Alfredo in front of his bar in the middle of Gaeta Vecchia. I knew him since he was a teen. He passed away seven years ago.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2019-06-29 16:19
Everything becomes expendable after 75

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2022-12-15 05:53
View from the Oratorio Salesiano

jansavik
jansavik 🇬🇧 2020-10-10 01:11
It must have been so wonderful to show your photos to the local people. Did any of them recognise themselves ?
 
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-10-11 21:28 в ответ jansavik
Yeah, it was great. 2 photos further down, you'll see one of the girls (Claudia) who was in one of the photos. At that time people appreciated it. This is the church where it was at: https://www.cattedralegaeta.it/chiese-de lla-cattedrale/santissima-annunziata/
  
jansavik
jansavik 🇬🇧 2020-10-12 03:00 в ответ ducman4988
That is so wonderful :) :) I will go and check out the church now. I LOVE walking about old Churches.
   
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-10-12 04:49 в ответ jansavik
Thanks, I'm glad you appreciate it. Not many people do appreciate art and architecture.
    
jansavik
jansavik 🇬🇧 2020-10-13 06:40 в ответ ducman4988
I have always loved Art and Architecture. A trait i get from my Father who was a History NUT !!! He was always taking us on trips to visit some ancient monument, house or museum/gallery. Sound boring for a little kid but he would make it exciting and often setup treasure hunts...we were like little Indiana Jones's LOL. Stayed with me forever and i even ended up getting a degree in History and a BA in Fine Arts .
     
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-10-13 23:55 в ответ jansavik
I have some more that I haven't scanned yet. I'll try to get it done (before I get TOO OLD and drop dead)
      
jansavik
jansavik 🇬🇧 2020-10-24 21:28 в ответ ducman4988
Thats what i keep saying about some of my projects AHAHAHAHAH
       
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-10-24 21:54 в ответ jansavik
I'm getting older every second; but I'm still not dead (I don't think?)

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2023-06-01 15:27
A friend of mine let me stay in his hut in Gaeta. This was probably late 80's. It was below the church San Francesco, maybe Via Angioina? That's my backpack to the right, which I still use occasionally.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2021-10-03 00:52
I stayed in this hut of a friend of mine in Gaeta for two weeks during the summer of 1986 while visiting Gaeta

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 23:02
Via Annunziata - the first place I ate on a consistent basis in Gaeta.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 19:06
This was in the Pizzeria da Emilio, Via Annunziata. I knew Massimo, and his brother Massimo, and the entire family, from when I first went to Gaeta in 1996. Massimo did some bit parts in Italian movies.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2023-06-01 15:22
That's the older daughter, Stefania, behind the curtains

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 19:02
Franco is related to the owners of Pizzeria da Emilio (elsewhere in this album). He was married to Doriana (kid photos in "Bambini...70's earlier/later). There are slightly older photos of his daughter, Dalila, in the "Bambini...90's" album. There are also photos of his other two kids, Lavinia and Alfredo, in the same album.
 
jansavik
jansavik 🇬🇧 2020-10-10 01:13 в ответ ducman4988
Going to search them out now :)
  
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-10-11 21:28 в ответ jansavik
good!

likemature 🇩🇪 2019-01-08 10:45
you on the left, I assume? great!
 
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2019-01-08 22:52 в ответ likemature
Left. Quirino, on the left, is my best friend in Gaeta.
  
alstarr31 🇷🇺 2019-01-15 22:45 в ответ ducman4988
Photography is a stopped time.You look and remember your youth...and it becomes sad that you didn't have much to do...
   
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2019-01-16 06:17 в ответ alstarr31
I'm trying my best to do the best I can with the rest of my life.
    
alstarr31 🇷🇺 2019-01-16 10:00 в ответ ducman4988
Sorry,I didn't express my thoughts in English.I wanted to say:It becomes sad that much didn't have time to do.
 
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2019-01-08 22:52 в ответ likemature
Oops, I meant Quirino is on the right; I'm on the left.
  
likemature 🇩🇪 2019-01-09 01:03 в ответ ducman4988
thanks, that´s what I thought ;-)
   
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2019-01-16 06:19 в ответ likemature
He wanted me to come back to Gaeta, he was willing to pay my airfare. He, and Patrizia, are the parents of Emanuela and Claudia (see photos from Gaeta - 1990's). I was like one of the family.

deemoa 🇫🇷 2018-12-19 15:52
great place nice album
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2018-12-20 20:01
Thank you. Gaeta was like a 2nd home to me, and I planned to retire there....haven't made the move yet.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2021-06-02 23:27
...or at least I THINK it's the Springfield: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Spring field_(CL-66) It was the first light cruiser to be homeported in Gaeta after they moved the Sixth Fleet flagship from Villefranche.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-10-24 21:11
Andrea (left), and two others, were the owners of the Pizza Boat "Nave Caiattas" [Caiattas is the old Roman term for Gaeta] in Gaeta Elena. The older fellow to the right just worked for him in setting up the boat for the season.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 19:47
Italia, yes THAT'S HER NAME. Mussolini was paying some lire to parents in the 1940's (when she was born) who gave their children patriotic names. This was at the Oratorio Salesiano in the church San Francesco.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-10-03 00:23
I think this is the last one I have of the "Nave Caiattas" - a pizza restaurant I worked on while I was attending studies at "L'Universita' di Napoli". Nave = ship; Caiattas = the old name for Gaeta.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2023-03-27 04:13
Traveling from Formia-Gaeta to Roma to Nice

jansavik
jansavik 🇬🇧 2020-10-10 01:14
An adourable photo :)
 
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-10-11 21:29 в ответ jansavik
I was interested in Mirna at one time.
  
jansavik
jansavik 🇬🇧 2020-10-12 02:48 в ответ ducman4988
Understandably so , she is very pretty. :) :) I can see where Luca gets his sweet looks.
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2022-02-19 11:40
Hard to believe this happened 30 years ago.

proudman21
proudman21 🇳🇱 2022-02-19 14:37
If you go to Gaeta again: this restaurant still exists!
 
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2022-02-19 17:51 в ответ proudman21
I don't know, have you been there? It's in the part of Gaeta called Gaeta Elena. I once had thoughts of Mirna (next photo), but too much time has passed. Now I'm just getting older.
  
proudman21
proudman21 🇳🇱 2022-02-19 22:37 в ответ ducman4988
Never been there, but i found it on Google. Just curiosity of mine to discover unknown places. You did have good taste in mind with Mirna...a beautiful woman then!

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 20:57
Tony LaPorta, who was one of the main professional photosgraphers in Gaeta for many years; working at his summer cottage on the outskirts of Gaeta. He passed away around 2010.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 21:03
This was shortly after Myrna (daughter of Foto Tony) returned to Gaeta after her husband in Sicilia died in an auto accident.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 21:00
Tony LaPorta (aka Foto Tony), dropping me off at the station in Formia, in 1996.
 
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2022-08-28 14:02 в ответ ducman4988
Tony passed away around 2010 in his 70's. Hard to believe 25 years have passed by.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2021-06-12 02:34
This is Foto Tony's "hut" on the west end of Gaeta, in the countryside. He was a professional photographer in Gaeta for 40 years, passing away around 2010. He was one of my better friends there.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 20:52
Sometimes girlfriend Maria (Mother of Sabrina, Daniela, Flora, etc.) working at the "American Bar" across fleet landing in Gaeta.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 20:50
Me, my best friend Quirino Burzi, and his wife Patrizia, taking it easy at Piazza Traniello. mid-90s.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 18:49
If I recall correctly, this is Gianluca Rossetti on his Honda in front of Bar Bazzanti.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 20:42
Teenies at the Oratorio Salesiano (based at the church San Francesco).

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 18:52
Good-looking young woman walking along the passarella (I don't recall if that's the Italian, Spanish or Portuguese word) near Serapo beach.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 18:54
Alfredo is the owner of Bar Bazzanti in Gaeta. His baby daughter is probably at the University now.
ducman4988 🇮🇹 2023-04-26 15:48
Alfredo passed away in 2014 from cancer

ducman4988 🇮🇹 2023-04-26 15:49
Dino (to the right) is the local renowned artist in Gaeta. 2023 - he's still alive in Gaeta.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 20:46
Don Antonio, who suffered from dementia, at the upper courtyard of the Oratorio Salesiano (based at San Francesco). Part of the dementia was caused from a mission to South America in the 60's. He passed away a few years later. The juxtaposition of the old priest and the young girl behind is PURELY INTENTIONAL.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2023-06-01 05:29
Me and my friends Marino and Erasmo near the beach. Marino (left) died a few years later from a drug overdose. Erasmo (center) is the older brother of my best friend in Gaeta, Quirino Burzi. He passed away this year.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 19:17
Mr. Scipione is the father of Umberto Scipione - a well known composer, musician in Italia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Sc ipione. There are a couple of kid pix of Umberto in "Bambini...90's". I was living in the same "palazzo" as them in the 70's when I was in the USN.

ducman4988 🇮🇹 2023-04-26 15:47
Adriano Parella was a local basketball star in Gaeta in the 70's. I actually played a little pick-up basketball against him when I was a young man (MANY years ago). He, and Salvatore Vagnati, another youth from Gaeta, are playing against a US Navy team from the ship that was home-ported there.

sammy-hartland 🇺🇸 2023-08-31 08:35
Wow.
 
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2023-08-31 17:03 в ответ sammy-hartland
I tried to add clarification to this photo, and imgsrc kept on deleting it. Gizzi was the priest at San Francesco until he fell in love with one of the girls, Teresa, and married. That was a big scandal at the time, but my reaction was SO WHAT, GOOD FOR HIM.
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2023-08-31 17:05
He and Teresa moved into his Mother's house in the 90's. They moved later to another apartment. He's in his 80's, but still active.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 20:41
Series of 4 fotos of nuns "cavorting" on the main beach, Serapo, in Gaeta. This series of photos was some of the first I took when I arrived there with the US Navy at the end of 1969. It was featured prominently in my photo show at Penn State in 1977-78. Taken with a Leica M2 and 90mm Tele-Elmarit.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 19:44
I traveled with these young ladies on the train to the Universita' by train in the early 1970's. I was especially attracted to Alba (right), but she was with the Communist Party and the Movimento Studentesco (very big among students at that time), and she didn't pay me much attention. Now we're all old - another lost opportunity.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 19:38
Circus with hand puppets in Gaeta Elena. Typical scene of old Italia, although I didn't know it at the time since I was part of the scene.

masongray 🇺🇸 2024-01-04 11:26
He seems very happy.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-10-24 20:39
The grandparents of Emanuela B. At Gaeta Vecchia.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-07 18:55
Typical scene of a young boy working the fishing boats in old Italia. I don't know if that happens anymore.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-05-04 06:08
Where I took many of my "glamour girl" and "cute kid" photos in the 90's. The young man worked at this establishment.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-05-04 06:10
I believe this was at the "Palm Beach" establishment.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-05-03 20:51
My apartment was about 1/2 kilometer off the beach. Why did I come back to the USA????

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2021-06-04 01:23
"Capitaneria" is the harbormaster, the office who oversees all port activities. The "Scuola Nautica" is part way up the hill in the background. The boys who were jumping off the dock were behind me that ssame year. The two girls swimming at Porto Santa Maria in 1979 were in the area where all the fishing boats are. Tiziana, the 15-year-old, was "posing" right among those fishing boats in 1996 and 1997. Davide was also in that approximate location (Porto Santa Maria) in 1986.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2021-08-02 23:21
One of the smaller ports in Gaeta where many fishing and pleasure boats are docked. That's 12-year-old Davide to the right - there are several photos of him in the "Bambini...80's" album. I CAN'T BELIEVE 35 YEARS HAVE PASSED BY.
 
proudman21
proudman21 🇳🇱 2021-08-03 00:27 в ответ ducman4988
Let's hope this beautiful city and surroundings remain as you have shown us in your albums. Southwestern Europe, including southern Italy, is currently threatened by extremely high temperatures (up to 47 C) and devastating wildfires.
  
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2021-08-03 15:16 в ответ proudman21
I don't know - I haven't communicated with anyone from Gaeta since last year.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2021-06-03 04:53
From a 1974'Ektachrome slide.
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2021-06-03 11:57
one of my classics; TG I preserved my 70's slides carefully.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2021-06-03 04:54
House near the beach. From a 1974 Ektachrome slide.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-19 21:25
This is where I took most of those photos of the kids jumping off the docks in "Gaeta Vecchia". I would've been there age in 1960.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-19 21:27
This is looking down towards Gaeta Elena. Where I took photos of Maurizio, etc. in 1976 and 1979 is off to the right. Porto Salvo is further down the coast.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-19 21:35
This is the view FROM Monte Orlando. Serapo is to the left, Gaeta Elena is to the right.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2020-02-19 21:35
This is the beginning of Porto Salvo; and it's exactly the way I remember it when I got there first in 1969.

sammy-hartland 🇺🇸 2023-05-04 23:04
I'd like to go, next time you visit.
 
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2023-05-06 19:42 в ответ sammy-hartland
Let's see we'll have to coordinate closely. Use the email on my website (madaiostudios.com). I'm considering renting out an apartment in Autumn and staying there for three months. Then I'll ask for permanent residency. Because of all the illegal immigrants from Africa, they're making it harder for residency.
  
sammy-hartland 🇺🇸 2023-05-12 00:00 в ответ ducman4988
I know ALL about the illegal 'immigrants,' and the chaos they are creating.
   
ducman4988 🇺🇸 2023-05-12 00:39 в ответ sammy-hartland
I suppose I should apply soon before the situation gets worse. With no close relatives left, and no permanent place to live in, why shouldn't I try to get residency in Italy. I have more friends there than here.
    
sammy-hartland 🇺🇸 2023-06-14 22:39 в ответ ducman4988
Italy seems to have plenty of room for new 'residents.' You can see videos of them, marching down streets and smashing things.

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2023-05-11 22:32
They're everywhere. This is in the town of Formia, which is 7 miles from Gaeta

ducman4988 🇺🇸 2023-05-11 23:01
Main street Formia again. It seems like the only time the digital SLR excelled was in nighttime photos.