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 two photos feature the water stunt show at Cypress Gardens. This was a very long running show that continued after Cypress Gardens closed and Legoland bought them in 2009. However, it was just announced in December that the show would be ending. From a recent article:
"For decades, the ski shows at Cypress Gardens captivated audiences with their audacity and innovation. This was where barefoot skiing, swivel skiing, and the first human pyramids were introduced. Over 50 world records were set on these waters. Celebrities like Elvis Presley and Johnny Carson visited to witness the spectacle, and Hollywood took notice too—1953’s Easy to Love immortalized the park’s legendary synchronized ski sequences."
The third photo features the Putnam Stump Memorial at Shiloh National Military Park in Hardin County, Tennessee. This is a granite monument that replaces a real tree stump that marked the burial place of Private J.D. Putnam and it memorializes him and others that died during the Battle of Shiloh.
The last photo features recently caught fish. This was probably taken in Miami as there have been a few other photos in recent sets taken from a fishing boat there. However, this could also be 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:
Personal Computer News (January 19th, 1985)
@darth-azrael/personal-computer-news-january-19th
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (285-288)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-285
Computer Shopper (March 2001)
@darth-azrael/computer-shopper-march-2001
MegaCon 2012: Emerald Rose (8) - Vampire Girl (From the Planet Orn)
@darth-azrael/qjfpfhuj
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (281-284)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-281
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (277-280)
@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-277
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):
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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:
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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