Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (741-744)
After getting a new scanner several years ago to scan some old film slides my grandparents had, I picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and on eBay. I'm not sure why these commonly wind up at places like that but I know that some have ultimately come from estate sales. Maybe family members just don't know what to do with them. I've seen them advertised as being for arts and crafts so I assume there are those that use them for that purpose. I was more interested in the actual contents. Each slide is literally a snapshot in history. These pictures span from as early as the late 1940s to as late as the early 1990s. There are thousands of these slides. I will be scanning some from time to time and posting them here as an interesting way to look back at the past.
Most of the photos from this batch don't seem to generally have dates stamped on them like most of the previous batches I've gone through (though some do). They generally seem to be from the 1950s and 1960s. Like some of the previous batches, this one came from eBay and I don't know much about the origins of these photos other than that.
When I say "batch" I mean a bunch of slides I bought in a single purchase. Usually they are from the same ultimate origin. Typically, a batch will have 100s or even 1000s of slides.
When I say "set" I mean a subset of a batch that is a group of slides that I scan together. There are normally four slides in one set because that's how many slides my scanner can scan at once. Likewise, a post will typically have one set of four slides. It's just easier to keep track of that way.
These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.
According to handwritten dates, these were taken in June 1957, however, based on the contents of some previous slides, they may have actually been taken in July.
All of the photos in this set were taken in New York City.
The first photo shows an neat piece of history as it shows the marquee at the Mark Hellinger Theatre for the original Broadway run of My Fair Lady with Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison.
The second photo features Madison Square Gardens where apparently Billy Graham could be seen nightly. It's also pretty neat to see the other businesses, people and vehicles of the 1950s in this photo.
I believe the last two photos feature the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Despite construction beginning in the late 1800s, it remains unfinished to this day though it is still among the largest churches in the world and is in active use.
See the previous post in this series here.
The entire batch that has been scanned and uploaded so far can also be found here. This also includes higher resolution versions and versions with postprocessing.
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Byte (July 1984)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/byte-july-1984
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (737-740)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-737
Advanced Computer Entertainment (January 1988)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/advanced-computer-entertainment-january-1988
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (733-736)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-733
General Chaos (Sega Genesis)
https://ecency.com/hive-140217/@darth-azrael/general-chaos-sega-genesis
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (729-732)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-729
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The mention of the Mark Hellinger marquee for My Fair Lady is a perfect timestamp, pinning this to that buzzy late fifties moment. Your right, each slide feels like a small slice of real life, and and this set shows how fast a street can change while the names on the lights steal the show. Hitting NYC landmarks back to back gives the set a clear thread, and hte four at a time flow keeps it easy to follow. Wild to think those cardboard frames hauled decades like tiny time machines.