One of the problems is that Jay doesn't have the
ability to size his photos - he just tells the browser to display them
whatever
size he wants. If you download one of his "thumbnails" and display it,
it's
full screen. That means you're downloading 800k for a "thumbnail" that
would
be about 15k if it were sized appropriately.

The more photos he adds the worse the problem gets.

Actually, each individual photo and /or thumbnail on this page is between 15
and 50 kb in size -- quite small. There are just a LOT of them! (And
I DO tell them how big to be...)

However, once you click on a thumbnail you DO get a higher quality
version -- although not nearly what I used to give you! Before I caught on
to the fact that not everyone had a cable modem, I would give you 1200 x
1600 sized graphics. (You can still see this on some of the older pages.)

After enough dial-up folks bludgeoned me to death, I finally figure out how
to re-size pix to 800 x 600, or less, and that's what I post now.

Still, loading up this history page should NOT load up all the big
versions -- only the small ones. If it's loading too slowly on your
high-speed connection, I'm stumped.

BTW: Mary and I spent 7 hours poring over old newspaper microfilm this
afternoon/evening. Found LOTS of cool stuff about the early air mail
flights here. Wow -- those flights were HUGE media events here in Iowa
City, back in '23 and '24.

Tomorrow I get to spend some time with our airport manager, going over
ancient documents that he's got in his files. It should be interesting!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"