See the previous post in this series here.
I made some impulse buys after getting a new scanner and picked up a huge batch of slides a while back. These pictures span from as early as the late 1940s to as late as the early 1990s. These were from Goodwill and eBay (sometimes via estate sales). There are many thousands of these slides. I will be scanning some from time to time and posting them here for posterity.
This set continues a large batch of slides that originally came from an estate sale and appear to have belonged to a locally well known photographer from the Spokane Washington area named Leo Oestreicher, or perhaps a friend or family member of his. These slides contain some landscape and portrait photos but also a lot of typical snapshot photos. Here's an article on him from 1997 which is the only info I have found on him: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1997/jan/04/photos-of-a-lifetime-museum-acquisition-of-leo/
None of the slides in this set were labeled or dated. At least three out of four appear to have been taken on Christmas morning (not 100% sure about the one with the cat). My best guess is that these photos are from close to 1970. The TV looks older than that but there's no reason bo believe it is a brand new TV. The record that can be seen on the couch is an album called NOW! by Cliff Barrows with the Kurt Kaiser Singers. I had a surprisingly hard time finding a release date for that but the one estimate I found said 1970. That guy in the first photo looks pretty excited to be opening "Skittle-Bowl". I guess that's the kind of games people got for Christmas before the video game age? I had to look up Skittle-Bowl to see what it was. It is a table top bowling game that is played by swinging a small wooden ball around a pole (attached by a chain), sort of tether ball like, to hit small wooden pins.
The entire collection that has been scanned and uploaded so far can also be found here. This also includes higher resolution versions and versions with post processing.