Old Photos Lucette & Tom Keene - Dive Shop in The Wiers

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Originally Posted by Pineedles

That was a fantastic set of photos. TYVM.

They certainly were, and this has become a remarkable thread.

Thanks also to mikemo for the "networking" effort.

In one of those photos, Lloyd Bridges is trying out a panoramic dive mask, just like one I had in about those same years. It was a bit spooky to use underwater, as the corners distorted "stationary" things into "moving" things: Sometimes it's more comforting to have tunnel vision underwater with the conventional "flat-screen" diving mask!

Back then, the closest place to fill my SCUBA tank was "in the Laconia area". Those photos of the shop have jogged my memory, so now I think it was filled there 1962 through 1964. Back then, a pressure-test date of 1947 didn't appear to faze the refillers!

Ten years later, a neighbor who met Lloyd Bridges in Miami said, "He looks like a small dried-up frog". I think he looks just fine: his TV show did make him appear larger-than-life, however.

The late Lloyd Bridges would have been about 50 in those photos, btw.