After getting a new scanner several years ago to scan some old slides my grandparents had, I picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and eBay. I'm not sure why these commonly wind up at places like eBay but many seem to ultimately have come from estate sales. Maybe family members just don't know what to do with them or don't care. I've seen them advertised as being for crafts and such so maybe they are commonly used for that purpose. I was more interested in the actual contents. Each slide is a little slice of history from a particular time and place. 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 mainly because I find them an interesting way to look back at the past.
Sadly, 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. However, 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.
Batch = A bunch of slides I bought in a single purchase. Usually they are from the same ultimate origin but not necessarily. Typically, a batch will have 100s or even 1000s of slides.
Set = Subset of a batch. A group of slides 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 fours slides. Organizationally, it's just the easiest way for me to handle things.
These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.
I believe the first photo is probably from a museum in Oak Ridge, Tennessee where research for the first atomic bomb was done. It would have been taken in the 1950s or 1960s.
The second photo features a couple of hotels and at least one restaurant. You can see a sign near the building on the left that says "Red Coach Grill". This was a chain of restaurants purchased by Howard Johnson's. There was one in Miami and I'm pretty sure that's where this was taken. From the cars you can see in this photo, this was probably taken in the 1950s.
The third photo features a sign for the Starlite Motel. I believe this one was in Cocoa Beach and this photo was also likely taken in the 1950s.
I don't really know where the last photo was taken. My best guess is somewhere in Tennessee but that's just based on the the fact that there have been some photos from the Oak Ridge area in this batch.
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 post processing.
Check out some of my other recent posts:
Maximum PC (December 2001)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/maximum-pc-december-2001
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (025-028)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-025
GamePro (June 1996)
https://ecency.com/retrogaming/@darth-azrael/gamepro-june-1996
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (021-024)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-021
Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #10 – XFLAG.DOC
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-10-b0c63b9256594
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (017-020)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-017
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Books I am reading or have recently read:
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg
Tom Clancy's Op-Center: God of War by Jeff Rovin
Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
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