Several years ago I bought a flatbed scanner with a slide adapter to scan some old film slides that my grandparents had. After I finished scanning those, I picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and on eBay out of curiosity. I am not sure why these commonly wind up at such places but I know that at least some of them have ultimately come from estate sales. Maybe family members just don't know what to do with them. I've seen them advertised as being for arts and crafts but I was more interested in the actual contents. Each slide is literally a snapshot in history. 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 as an interesting way to look back at the past.
When I say "batch" I mean a group of slides I bought in a single purchase. Usually they are from the same ultimate origin. Typically, a batch will have 100s or even 1000s of slides.
When I say "set" I mean a subset of a batch that 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 four slides. It's just easier to keep track of that way.
This set contains photos spanning from as far back as at least 1959 to as recent as at least 1980. Other than these slides coming from eBay, I have no idea of their ultimate origin other than the clues provided in the photos themselves.
These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.
All of these photos were likely taken in June 1971 and feature locations in Colorado.
The first photo was taken in June 1971 and according to a note on the slide, it was taken on the road outside of Denver.
The second photo is labeled "USAF - June 1971". Based on another photo with the same label, this was probably taken at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
The third photo, like the first, was taken outside of Denver in June 1971.
The last photo is unlabeled and undated but was probably taken around the same time as the others in this set. Based on the name on the wagon on the left side of the photo, I believe this was a place called Buckskin Joe which was a Western-style theme park in Fremont, Colorado that operated from 1957 to 2010. It was originally built as a movie set and a number of movies were filmed there.
Denver - to Loveland Pass - June 1971
USAF - June 1971
Leaving Denver
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.
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Popular Computing Weekly (October 23rd, 1986)
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