A somewhat mysterious slide from September 1959. I found it in a box with architectural slides of San Francisco’s Mission District, but if this is San Francisco, then it is a part of the city I have never been to. It’s not shot on Twin Peaks, since you wouldn’t see these tall hills in the [...]
I’ve recently received a new batch of forgotten slides from the late fifties and early sixties. Most of them – actually a lot more than I was expecting – were from a single epic trip of a New York couple to South America. I’m still picking through those, but most are very common vacation pictures. [...]
A slide taken somewhere in Europe, maybe Paris, in the early 1960s… Makes me want to join, rise to the tips of my toes in the back and whisper “What’s going on?”
I found this slide in a box full of pictures from San Francisco’s Mission District that I had bought on eBay, but it clearly does not belong there… it’s in a very unusual aspect ratio, taken on 35mm black and white slide film. I assume it’s from the 1930s or maybe even 20s and was [...]
Hermann Weissenborn spent the early 20th century making some very excellent hollow neck guitars and Hawaiian ukuleles in his workshop in Los Angeles after emigrating from Germany to New York in 1902, and he would have probably been astonished to know that almost a hundred years later collectors would pay a premium for his Hawaiian [...]
After spending a lot of time on sites like Swapatorium, Ookpik’s Negativity and Square America, I thought it’s my turn to try my hand at the big eBay Slides Roulette… I went and freed a couple of boxes of slides from different traders and now the first little box arrived via the US Postal Service… [...]