We stayed up all night and the shower got better and better as it approached dawn.   In fact, as dawn broke, meteors were still raining down and could be seen as the sky lightened to normal early morning colors.  I was counting meteors at the rate of about 3 every 2 to 5 seconds just before morning twilight started washing out the meteors and faint stars.  They were coming down like rain!

For the pictures, I used a standard 35mm film camera with a 50mm lens, 200 and 400 ISO speed film and a tripod.  Most of the exposures were from 15 to 35 seconds.   A few lights in my neighborhood made longer exposures too light "fogged" to show meteors well. Oh, well. ( I wish they'd put switches on light poles so I could turn them off during times like this!   Haha!) 

Anyway, it was truly the most awesome celestial show I've ever seen.  A meteor storm like the 1966 storm my father witnessed and I didn't, because he couldn't wake me.  I was just a child but my father's descriptions of it the next day made me yearn to one day see such a sight.  I finally got my wish in November of 2001, 35 years later!