Camp Eberhart in 1945

8mm CAMP EBERHART 1945!
Black and white...and COLOR!

Here's a memory from Wally Ahlborn, a camper in those days....and the source for these historic 8mm movies:

"...In 1942, my folks sent me to a summer camp in lower Michigan...Camp Eberhart near Three Rivers...the best years of my young life...."

"...We did everything...swam, sailed, rode horses, ate terrible camp food, learned how to shoot a .22 rifle and send an arrow winging towards a bale of straw with a red, yellow and blue target...."

"...We learned to stomach bitter Hershey's cocoa along with undone 'flapjacks' in a huge mess hall along with 100 other kids but it was great fun. In 1944, I applied for a job there, to be a cabin leader and had 9 little boys to ride herd over and see that they wrote letters home to their parents...."

"...I went back again the next year, 1945. This 8mm movie was taken at that time.....you can see one of the camp staff personnel, Jim Eastman, filling the camp pickup with gas, possibly getting ready to take a truck load of older campers to the horse stables where we will ride the horses to the riding area for younger campers' riding lessions. When we becfame seasoned horsemen, we were called 'Road Riders' and it was an honor to ride the horses to and from the riding stables I recall the horse flies were terrible and were constantly biting the horses -- and us-- as we walked, trotted and cantered the horses. You can spot Coop', our camp director, riding a black beauty around the ring while Phillip Hohan (blue shirt) and others waits for their turn to enter the riding area...."

"...Everybody swam and dove from the pier on Lake Corey...."

"...Here I am at the archery range as my buddy, Larry Gundy also from Hammond, Indiana, records my 'championship' form...."

"...We were constantly running all over the camp area and often held races. That's me on the left. No idea who the other runners are...."

"Camp Eberhart near Three Rivers...the best years of my young life...."

SogoRadus projected the 8mm movies onto the wall, filmed them with an old VHS camcorder; then captured the videotape into Sony Vetgas using an ADVC firewire converter. Sogo Radus rendered the project with the typical .wmv settings he has discovered work the best. View more of these historic 8mm transfers on the SogoRadus channel!

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[Up2Late2]

WOW! Film of Tent Street and Coop!

I went to Camp EB in the 1970s and was on Staff 1980 to 1982.

[YeahhItsBcon619]

oh.my.god.