The newly recovered family archive
The modern galleries contain 30,197 distinct entries. 435 confirmed repeat entries were consolidated; links and captions preserve their other album memberships.
22,770 distinct photographs have been added from the family’s HG-Pictures archive, and 967 matched photographs have higher-quality viewing copies. Browse the recovered albums.
The inventory covered 500,120 files plus 159 ZIP members. Exact copies, resized versions, and recompressed copies were compared with the existing collection. Similar but uncertain matches remain privately held rather than discarded. Original files are preserved separately.
Website photo copies retain their full decoded image detail. Small previews make galleries lighter to browse. Private image metadata is removed. Camera dates, catalog dates, historical labels, and estimates remain distinct; file-copy timestamps are not capture dates.
28,999 new-photo groups remain held for review. Three damaged JPEGs, four unsupported layered image files, and 62 opaque legacy thumbnail-cache containers are documented privately. These additions do not resolve every historical gap listed below.
Old pages.
A lasting home.
The family backup and surviving Internet Archive pages have been brought together, preserving their original captions, spelling, and historical date labels.
Restoration status
The available source-linked photo and film collection has been imported. Checked October 6, 2026. Gallery counts represent displayed photographs across collections, not necessarily unique images.
The preserved source inventory contains 9,762 photo groups, including 84 photographs from the earlier host, and 97 source-linked films. Existing separately preserved family material remains available. These source counts and gallery counts describe different things.
When did the site begin?
Bruce remembers starting the family website around 1996–97. The surviving earlier-host photo index describes its oldest upload as “maybe around August 97”. The pages were hosted at nexus.theautochannel.com/~bhgordon before the family domain.
The domain registry records July 25, 1998 as the registration date for hidaka-gordon.com. The earliest homepage capture found is January 25, 1999. Neither establishes the original site’s first publication day, so the homepage circle retains the approximate 1996–97 date.
Domain registration record · January 1999 homepage capture · Earlier family pages
Known historical gaps
142 earlier-host image references have no recovered image in the reviewed material. Three backup photo groups survive only as thumbnails. Three films lack confirmed source links and are not included. Later external photo-service entries and other missing collections remain listed below rather than silently disappearing.
- February 23, 2007 Akira's 7th birthday party !!!.... — 111 photographs now recovered; other candidates remain under review.
- February 4, 2007 Pictures from the cruise are up, full resolution will be uploaded soon....
- January 20, 2007 Christmas 2007 and Buddah got a skin tag removed.... — 29 photographs now recovered; other candidates remain under review.
- December 24, 2006 Hannukah 2006, Brad and Kristen, Ilene, Lorne and the new baby !, Alagrins, Greg, Shannon and the girls...Thanks to everyone for the great presents !...
- December 10, 2006 Grampa visit, Taiki sings at a local book store and G-6 holiday party... — 93 photographs now recovered; other candidates remain under review.
- November 27, 2006 Our trip to Vail 2007 ! Major road trip through Arizona and the Meteor Crater, The Petrafied Forest and than arches park in Utah, plus a visit with Grandma and Poppy and a birthday for them and skiing and snowboarding and my broken TV... — 150 photographs now recovered; other candidates remain under review.
- November 5, 2006 Pictures taken by Taiki on the USS Midway, in the park and some old pictures that were on the memory card... — 172 photographs now recovered; other candidates remain under review.
- November 8, 2006 Sugano's parents visit, the USS Midway, Balboa park... — 119 photographs now recovered; other candidates remain under review.
- March 20, 2002 ...
- July 15, 1998 (Some more pictures, included are Taiki's freinds birthday party, some swimming fun and other stuff that I dont remember. Hopefully you will enjoy them many of them are out of focus though, but its much easier to put them all up than to edit them.
- December 24, 1997
- Newer Old Pictures (maybe around early December 97)
- Old Pictures (maybe around August 97)
The January 1999 snapshot still has six uncaptured graphics. Later backup artwork is available separately and is not presented as the missing 1999 capture bytes. Recovered original artwork.
Photograph and film quality
Viewing copies preserve the original photographs and required orientation. Raw backups, source evidence and private preservation masters remain separate. Twenty-five films have known source-quality or timing limitations; their individual notes stay beside the players. Technical decoding does not establish complete listening or motion review.
Historical upload labels are not necessarily photograph capture dates. No missing photographs, captions or dates have been invented.