Polaroid, Old Style

 

This reminds me.  I need to go to the camera store and buy some Polaroid film.  I wish Impossible Project hadn't stopped making Spectra film.  I liked that format.  Anyway, this really is an old-style Polaroid film that required a paper cover to be peeled off the image to complete processing. I'm fairly certain this is a Polaroid Series 20 film, made for the Swinger camera model made between 1965 and 1970.  Of course, the film packs were manufactured long after the Swinger went out of production, so this photo could have been taken after 1970, but the well-groomed hippie beard on dad screams 1960s.  

Judy's Baptism

 

Written on the back of the photo, "Judy's Baptismal Day.  Carleton & Judy Pak." 

Dick and I

 

I've got a lot of photos with something written on the back. This is the only one I own where the caption is typed.  "Dick and I in front of the house."  It must have been an interesting family.  

Sixties Chick

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

It Never rains in Southern California

Actually it does.  It also snows, which it did today.  Father and daughter, I think, rather than husband and wife.

The Here, There, and Everywhere Collection-Joe & Dick Again

Joe and Dick in front of a different house, reinforcing my father and son hobo theory.  Click on The Here There and Everywhere Collection for more photos and information.

The Here, There, and Everywhere Collection-Joe & Dick

After yesterday's mansion monstrosity photograph, the more modest home of Joe and Dick in Englewood, Colorado.   Then again, perhaps Joe and Dick were father and son hobos who stopped by the home of a distant relative. 

Click on The Here There and Everywhere Collection in labels....you know the drill.

In the Summertime

With one winter storm after another pummeling the east coast, I thought I'd remind people that summer is coming with a look back at "JUL 69"  I grew up in a small town in western Pennsylvania, and every time there was a blizzard, people would wonder how they were going to survive the big storm.  Same way they always did. 

The Green Album 6

I admit it.  It's easy for me to complain about boring baby pictures, which doesn't mean these photos don't have a certain interest.  If I'm right, if this album is from World War 2, then these boring babies are the kids that some soldier wanted to live for.

And, of course, click on The Green Album in labels to see more.

No It's Not.....

Harold Lloyd.  Same glasses but it's not him.  So was this a popular eyeglass frame design or was this guy a fan?

True Found Photography

Most of my found photographs are found in antique stores, at flea markets, and on EBay.  I found this one on a Hollywood street.  Who knows how it ended up there.  I suspect this one came out of a digital camera.

Picking Daddy's Nose

This is a very small photograph, and when I  first picked it up, I thought that the little girl was sticking her finger in her father's nose.  Then I got it home, scanned it, enlarged it, and saw that she was actually going for his mouth.  Oh well, not as good, but since I only paid fifty cents for it, not a bad buy.  Labeled, "May 30, 1946.  19 Mo."

Scotland 1926

It's not a postcard.  I know it looks like one, but it isn't.  This is one of those photographic mysteries that a photo collector runs into from time to time.  It looks like a commercially produced image for sale to the tourist trade.  But then again, if this was a pro shot, wouldn't the photographer have removed the clothing thrown on the ground beside the child?  And wouldn't he have moved the parked car out of the frame?  Then again, even in 1926 Scotland, which is what's written on the back of the photo, how often would a person run into a scene like this?  Perhaps mom took a picture of husband and son on the way to the Highland games.