The other side of the previous post. The top photo is a postcard. As usual, when posting an album page, I show the whole page to show position, then the other photos individually. Click on The Trips Collection in labels to see the rest of the album. and fair warning, it will be a while before everything gets put up.
It's been a long time since I've posted anything from this photo album. The fact is, it's a real pain in the behind to disassemble the pages, scan, and then replace the page in the album. Call it laziness if you want. Anyway, this album is another example of true found photography. I was walking down the street, there were a bunch of garbage bags on the sidewalk, and this album was sticking out the top of one of the bags, and since it wasn't covered in some sort of nasty crap I wouldn't want to touch, it came home with me.
Chitzen Itza was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Mayans. It's located on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Chitzen Itza is translated as at the mouth of the well of Itza. The Itza were an ethnic-lineage group that once was politically dominate in the Yucatan.
Click on The Trips Collection in labels to see what else is up. Fair warning, it will be while before the entire album gets posted.
I'm not sure how wise this crowd of what looks to be teenagers were, but at least it's a crowd.
A fascinating face, indeed. There's something a bit masculine in her visage. The chin and brow line seem more male to me than female. I know I'm probably wrong, but I think there is a slight chance that this woman is actually a man. I spent decades working in photo labs and one of the things that I learned is that if people can think, they'll do it and take pictures, and a lot of men think about wearing women's clothes. But what about when this picture was taken. I started my lab career after the invention of the Polaroid camera and worked into the digital age granting a certain amount of anonymity to those men wanted to wear a dress. Did professional studio photographers of the nineteenth century have special times to take photos of special customers? Probably.
Once again, I haven't started collecting sports cards. Once again, I am the type of person who picks up stuff off of the street. And once again, something I found. Quite a while ago, actually, but I knew the World Cup was coming to North America, and Los Angeles, my hometown, so I've been saving it for an appropriate time. Truthfully, I'm not much of a soccer fan. It's one of those sports that I can take or leave. If a game is on TV, and I've nothing better to do, I may watch, but it's not something I'll make the time for. Having said that, if a free World Cup ticket fell into my lap, I'd go. After all, the World Cup is an event that goes beyond the sport itself. Anyway, I looked it up. Caden Clark is not on the United States World Cup team, but he's only 23 years old, so maybe next time.
Badminton was one of those things that were part of small town and suburban 50s and 60s America. People had money, and leisure time so why not a backyard net and a game or two before dinner. Note the woman in the background is playing in a skirt. Not a tennis skirt, just an ordinary, everyday wear skirt.
