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.
The first three photos in this set appear to have all been taken at the same hotel. I didn't see anything that made it obvious what the name of the hotel was or where it was at. My best guess is that this was taken in Miami though it is possible it was in Cocoa Beach or even elsewhere in Florida.
The second photo features a diver in mid-dive off of a diving platform (which seems to be an odd feature for a hotel...but maybe that was common back then).
You can tell by the cars in the third photo that these were taken probably in the late 1950s. Ironically, while trying to find this hotel, I found a photo that identified the Desert Inn (appearing in previous sets) as being in Miami. I couldn't figure that one out when I was originally looking for it.
The last photo is a shot of the beach. Again, it isn't terribly obvious to me where this was taken but I would guess Miami Beach.
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:
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Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (037-040)
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Identifying a Mystery Computer From Almost 30 Years Ago
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Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (033-036)
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Advanced Computer Entertainment (November 1990)
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Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (029-032)
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