Great American D C 9 Canvas Print

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Great American Airways DC-9 number N1068T parked at McNary Field in Salem, Oregon, on a rainy day in June 1980. I was informed at the time that this charter plane was a "gambler's special" ferrying folks to casinos in Nevada. It made fairly regular appearances in Salem. After I moved to Monterey in 1984, this same plane appeared at Monterey airport on several occasions.

Photo Copyright James B. Toy.

In the fall of 1959, Mr. Toy entered this world at a place called Carmel on California's Monterey Peninsula. Nine years later his family pulled up stakes for the rain-soaked city of Salem, Oregon where he never quite fit in. When he was 12, he and his mother viewed an exhibit of photographs by a Salem newspaper photographer, which inspired him to take his first photography class. During his teenage years he gradually developed his eye for composition and his skills with light and exposure. Though he did not pursue photography as a career, he has continued to document his observations of the world on small frames of film. In 1984, Mr. Toy and his wife Heidi returned to the Monterey Peninsula where his heart belonged. In 1997, on a bit of...