Tag: Hanford and Richland

  • Where the Old West Meets the New, Declassified

    Where the Old West Meets the New, Declassified

    And the welcoming committee was Plastic Man Where the old west greets the new, declassified 2005 25 w by 19 in h inches Digital Painting Based on a photo from the “Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project”. © copyright Jk Lightbox enlargement Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project paintings “C’mon, kids! Wave…

  • Modeling Fall Fashions at Richland, Declassified

    Modeling Fall Fashions at Richland, Declassified

    What the fashion conscious woman wore down at the plutonium plant Modeling Fall Fashions at Richland, Declassified 2005 20 h by 11 inches w Digital Painting Based on a photo from the “Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project”. © copyright Jk Lightbox enlargement Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project paintings The plutonium…

  • Mr. A + 4S + U = ?

    Mr. A + 4S + U = ?

    Mr. A + 4S + U = ? 2005 18 by 11 inches Digital Painting by Juli Kearns, Copyright © 2005 Juli Kearns Based on a photo from the “Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project”. Light box enlargement Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project paintings Uniform with gun + smiling woman in…

  • Dancers on the Hanford Theater Stage Declassified

    Dancers on the Hanford Theater Stage Declassified

    Shall we dance? Shall we dance? Shall we Dance? Dancers on the Hanford Theater Stage Declassified 2005 16.5 h by 30 w inches Digital Painting by Juli Kearns, Copyright © 2005 Juli Kearns Lightbox enlargement Based on a photo from the “Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project” Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified…

  • Pin-up girls and the bomb

    Pin-up girls and the bomb

    Enough cheesecake to make your dead great-great grandmother’s false teeth complain Plutonium Desert Garden Pin-up Swimsuit Beauty, Declassified 2005 18 by 13 inches Digital Painting by Juli Kearns, Copyright © 2005 Juli Kearns Based on a photo from the “Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project”. Lightbox enlargement Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified…

  • Bobby and the A-Bomb Factory

    Bob Myers wrote a book about growing up a child of Hanford, Bobby and the A-Bomb Factory, that supplies not only a unique account on Hanford but also on the different American Indian nations in the area and the effect of Hanford on them. I happened upon his book the other day and promptly read…

  • A little cheesecake with that A-Bomb

    A little cheesecake with that A-Bomb

    A Little Cheesecake with that A-Bomb, Declassified, 2005 tinted photo Film poster held by Jean Nelson, from the “Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project”. Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project paintings Don’t miss this vital film! “You can beat the A-bomb.” Free showings. Columbia High School, Feb. 19 thru 22. Get tickets…

  • Theaters of war

    Theaters of war

    Hanford Tap Dancer, Declassified Digital painting 2005-2006 Original photo from the “Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project”. Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project paintings The woman in the photo is a participant in a WWII talent show at the Hanford Theater. My assumption is she is tap dancing. Tap dancing was popular…

  • How they learned to stop worrying and loved the bomb

    How they learned to stop worrying and loved the bomb

    Hi Spot High School Dancers, Declassified Tinted photo Photo from the Hanford Historical Photo Declassification Project Read the introduction to the Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project paintings Teenage angst and love and fear and wonder at a blossoming new world. The teenage wish to stand apart, to be individual, and the desire to identify with…

  • Growing up in the shadow of Mt. Fuji

    Growing up in the shadow of Mt. Fuji

    The UN nuclear arms conference began on Monday. The countdown to midnight has been moved forward again to 7 minutes to midnight, the same setting as when the clock debuted 55 years ago. Picture on right: Hanford B reactor, source of the plutonium for Fatman. Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/trinity/articles/part1.html In 1960 I was three years old and…