Juanita Waters the Lawn

 

On one hand I hate the color restoration setting on the scanner.  It's different from the image I have in hand.  On the other hand I love the color restoration setting because it allows me to see what the photographer saw when he opened up the envelope of newly printed images.  Written on the back, "Sept. 1972, Juanita." 

Slumber Party

 

I do love the color restoration feature.  Dated "NOV 69"  so it's either early Christmas with all those candy stripes or a slumber party with the sleeping bag and all those feet. 

Music To My Ears 18

 

Finally, the end.  The last of The Music To My Ears Collection (Click on in labels to see all.) I don't think this one is the oldest, but I wanted to save it for last because, in the background, you can see a head shot seen in an earlier post.  It looks like Ann Parker, or Mary Reagan, or Ruby has had a long show business career.  Not a star, but as a working entertainer.  Something few pwople are able to pull off. 

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I suspect this one is a bit older than the last couple of posts, but these aren't dated so it didn't occur to me to do those two last.  So, for those of you who wonder why color prints fade and, more than often than not, end up either a red or yellow color, color film, slides, and prints are made up of three dye layers.  Yellow, magenta, or red, and cyan, or blue.  They fade at different rates.  To see more, click on Music To My Ears in labels at the bottom of the post.  Only one more to go.

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Is this the same woman who has been seen throughout this collection?  I'm not sure she is.  The shape of the face looks different, but then again, it's not a great angle.  Written on the back, "Ruby's Corn Patch 1970-August-Reno."  Click on Music To My Ears in labels and take a guess, same person or not.

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I haven't posted much lately, so there's a pretty good gap on this collection, and if anyone wants to catch up, click on Music To My Ears in labels to see what's already been posted.  It looks like our singer has aged a bit and may, perhaps, be retired.  Written on the back, "5-11-68, Monsignor & Loud Mouth."  I'm sure that's a reference to her singing career.   And just for the hell of it, I used the color restoration setting.

Sixties Chick

Dated 1969, one color restoration and one thumb in front of the lens.

Party Time

This one's going to the last from the throw-in file for awhile.  So, there's a clock on the wall, it's ten after eleven, it's dark out, so it's P.M.  Too late for dinner, so it has to be a party.  The color restoration setting really worked well on this one.

Church People

More from the throw in box!  The color restoration setting really worked well on this one. 

Two People Sitting On The Couch

Every so often I'll buy an envelope full of photographs.  I've noticed that, more often then not, there's a breakdown where I really like about a third of the pictures, I kind of like about a third, and the last third are sort of throw ins.   It's not so much that the images are completely without interest.  If nothing else, they show how people dressed and carried themselves, but few collectors would ever buy them individually.  Anyway, from time to time I'll post some of the throw ins.  I'll probably do five or six and then return to things a bit more interesting.  I can't decide if the color restoration setting on the scanner made things better or worse.

Growing Up In Poverty

I know what it's like, though the poverty I lived in was a bit more genteel than this.  It's not a  pleasant way to grow up.  I hit the color restoration setting for the bottom shot for something a bit closer to what the image looked like before the inevitable color shift started.

Sixties Youth

Ah, the 1960's, and all things considered, a rather subdued fashion choice for the era.  Dated "APR 67." 

For what it's worth, I used the color correction setting on the scanner.

The Littlest Christmas Tree

Alright, I think it's actually a candle, and it's so small that I missed it the first time I looked at the print, but there it is, right there at the edge of the table, the littlest Christmas tree.  There's a processor's date stamp on the back, "JANUARY 1959."  So, maybe not Christmas day, but right around December 25, 1958. 

Grannies in the Garden

It seems to me that we live in a culture that's terrified of aging and death.  Fact is, the only way we can avoid getting old is to die young, and  we all end up dying.  So, two grannies, dated "July 4, 1957," from back in a less self obsessed age.

Getting Drunk in '71

Now that  I've used the color restoration setting I can see that our three seniors are drinking something with a nice golden hue.  Iced tea or something a bit stronger?

Dated "APR 71"

The U.N. Restored

I like playing with the color restoration setting on the scanner.  Sometimes it works well, sometimes not.

The Really Big Radio Has To Warm Up

Who out there is old enough to remember when radios had to warm up?   There was a time when radios, record players, televisions, and early tape recorders ran on tubes, turn them on, and until the tubes actually got warm, there was this low level hum that came out of the speakers.  I sometimes think I might have been born in the wrong time.  I like old technology.

Printed "Week of July 7, 1952"

Cruising In Luxury

 

Alright, the bottom picture is kind of crappy, but I don't like to edit stuff from collections, even small ones.  As a matter of fact, the top two photos aren't that great, and the color restoration setting clearly has some limitations, but....

One of our local radio stations (Local is Los Angeles.) has an ask the mayor show.  I was on my way out the door, I was getting ready to turn off the radio, and the last thing I heard was that one of the questions for that day was about ferry service between Ventura and L.A.   To a lot of people that will seem like a daft idea, but I say why not?  As a matter of fact, I think an L.A.-Ventura connection isn't ambitious enough.

 As the population of our state increases, as the need to get around grows, it only makes sense to add boat traffic to the mix.  If I need to get to San Diego from Los Angeles, I'd rather take the light rail to the Santa Monica pier and a coastal ferry to San Diego than sit on the I-15.  Yes, I know, there's already trains, planes, and buses, but why not add sea travel into the mix.  Hey, L.A. to San Francisco, Oakland to Eureka or Crescent City, it all makes sense to me.

I know what some people will say.  "Won't it be expensive?"  We subsidize mass transit, Amtrak, and if it ever gets built, we'll subsidize high speed rail, so I don't see  the difference.

All pictures dated "WEEK OF OCT. 25-58 RN"

Donuts or Doughnuts

I like donuts.  As a matter of fact, I love doughnuts.  I would not, however, serve them at a party.   Dated "Week of November 3, 1954."

Merry Christmas Faded and Restored