Airplanista 🇺🇦<p>Just watched a great program on <a href="https://squawk.mytransponder.com/tags/OBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OBP</span></a> on early <a href="https://squawk.mytransponder.com/tags/photographers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photographers</span></a> in the Columbia Gorge. It made me think back to the late 1980s when I set up a photo studio in back of my wife’s Ballet School in Reedley, CA.</p><p>One day I found this faded sign on the back wall, and dug into the history to find that the space I was using was used in 1906 by George Besaw, one of the pioneers of <a href="https://squawk.mytransponder.com/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> in the Western U.S.</p><p>I restored the sign, and it was cool to know I had crossed paths with this early photographer.</p>