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 that most of the photos in this set were taken in Miami in the 1950s or in one case, enroute to or from Miami.
The first photo features a courtyard area of a hotel. A Google image search reveals The Castaways as a possible candidate for which hotel this might be.
The second photo features The Empress Hotel, originally built in the 1920s.
The third photo features the Algiers Hotel, originally built in the 1940s.
The last photo was taken from an airplane, probably on the way to or from Miami. Based on the time period and what details I can see, this is most likely a DC-7B. Based on where this photo was taken, just behind the prop, this was most likely taken from the "Sky Room" near the front of the aircraft. DC-7Bs were the last piston-driven aircraft Delta purchased for passenger service. In 1960, Delta would purchase its first jet aircraft with the DC-8. For more details about Delta's DC-7Bs and their luxury accommodations, see https://www.deltamuseum.org/exhibits/exhibits/aircraft/dc-7b-ship-717
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:
Compute!'s Gazette (December 1984)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/compute-s-gazette-december-1984
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (121-124)
https://ecency.com/vintage/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-121
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (117-120)
https://ecency.com/vintage/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-117
Three Tune Tuesday - Matthew Sweet
https://ecency.com/threetunetuesday/@darth-azrael/three-tune-tuesday-matthew-sweet
PC World (July 1985)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/pc-world-july-1985
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (113-116)
https://ecency.com/vintage/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-113
Check out my other Social Media haunts (though most content is links to stuff I posted on Hive or reposts of stuff originally posted on Hive):
Wordpress: https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/darth-azrael
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Darth_Azrael
Blogger: https://megalextoria.blogspot.com/
Odyssee: https://odysee.com/@Megalextoria:b
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-2385054
Daily Motion: https://www.dailymotion.com/Megalextoria
Books I am reading or have recently read:
Total Power by Vince Flynn
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr by Nancy Isenberg
Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
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