A Beetle with a View

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 [...]

The Conservatory

The Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is a wonderfully old fashioned place and we come here about once a year to take pictures, usually on a workday when the place is empty enough to allow for good photos. It’s a very tight place with narrow walkways between the towering plants, high [...]

The Office

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. [...]