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 that 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 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.
Unfortunately, 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.
Like other recent sets, these were all likely taken circa 1959.
The first photo is from Cypress Gardens. This amusement park is a bit east of the Tampa area. It is still there but now it is a Legoland. I'm not sure if they do any kind of shows like this anymore. I was there a year or so ago and they didn't seem to be then. I'm not sure what the deal with the Conferderate flag is except that it didn't used to be seen the same as it is now I guess. And this was 1959-ish.
The second photo is another shot of a water skiing show at Cypress Gardens.
The third photo features some kind of tanker. This was likely taken during a fishing trip off the coast of Miami...at least that's where similar photos from the water seem to have been taken. Sadly, the resolution isn't quite high enough to make out the name of the ship. Unless someone has better pattern recognition skills than me can make it out.
Close-up of the name of the ship. Looks like two short words... Anna Jim? But that's a stupid name...
The last photo features another boat but this one is someone's personal speedboat. This was probably also taken in the Miami area though both of these could be from elsewhere in Florida.
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.
Check out some of my other recent posts:
Lord of the Rings, Vol. 1 (DOS)
@darth-azrael/lord-of-the-rings-vol
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (257-260)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-257
Byte (February 1984)
@darth-azrael/byte-february-1984
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (253-256)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-253
NFL Blitz (Nintendo 64)
@darth-azrael/nfl-blitz-nintendo-64
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (249-252)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-249
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Books I am reading or have recently read:
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
Total Power by Vince Flynn
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