Inspiration: My grandpa’s vintage press passesPosted by Cody Kitaura on June 7th, 2010
It’s easy to focus on how much journalism has changed in the past decade or so, and it’s a topic I love discussing. But I sometimes find myself forgetting the long history that a lot of publications and organizations have. For instance, I work for a paper that has published for more than 100 years.
My grandfather, who passed a couple years ago (while I was still in j-school), was a former cameraman for NBC. He worked in New York state, Chicago and Burbank, but I don’t know a lot of details about what he did. I was cleaning out a few things at my parents’ house over the weekend and found a big bag with a bunch of random press passes.
There’s something really cool (at least to me) about seeing something that forces me to remember that journalism existed before Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.
There were way more that I didn’t photograph. Maybe someday I’ll chronicle all of them.
A few more photos after the jump. >>