It's a Dog!

 

This is a fairly small print, and when I just looked at it, I wondered what the woman on the left was holding.  Then I scanned it and blew it up and got a good look.  It's the family dog.  

4 on the Face

 

As a former professional black & white photo printer, I can say that black marks on a print are where white light is getting through the negative, and white is where light is being blocked.  It looks like there were some slashes in the negative's emulsion, and the white part on the "4" and that squiggly white line below the other black slash is where bits of the emulsion is still attached to the neg, just not where it should be.  

Sunday Best

 

I'm a lifelong atheist, but as a child I was forced to go to church.  Back then, people wore what was known as Sunday best, clothing that wasn't worn any other day of the week.  

A Vacation In Hamburg 11

 

The penultimate post in this series.  I'm not going to write a lot about this selection of true found photographs.  All I'm going to do is recommend that those who are curious, to click on Hamburg Vacation Collection in labels, to see the first 10 posts, and to read about how I actually found these photos on the street.  I don't know when I'll get around to the final chapter of this series, so be patient. 

Forklift Girls

  

I purchased this photo from the same antique store and at the same time as the previous post, and while I can't be sure, I'm going to go out on a limb and say it was taken by the same photographer.  There's nothing on the back to confirm that, but from Aubrey Studio, La Puente, California.  Does anyone out there know what those things are in the background.  And once again, going by the hemlines and hairdos, probably from the sixties. 

Pull My Plunger, Please

 

Why is the woman holding up a toilet bowl plunger to one of the models?  Maybe she was Miss Plumbing Supplies.  Anyway, I've been picking up a few photos, either taken by a professional photographer or an advanced amateur.  In the case of this photo, a pro.  Stamped on the back, "AUBREY STUDIO, 120 N. First St., La Puente, Calif., 91744" I went online and ran variations of Aubrey Studios, La Puente, and came up with nothing.  Going by the hairdos and hem lines, I'm guessing the swinging 60s. 

Polaroid, Old Style

 

This reminds me.  I need to go to the camera store and buy some Polaroid film.  I wish Impossible Project hadn't stopped making Spectra film.  I liked that format.  Anyway, this really is an old-style Polaroid film that required a paper cover to be peeled off the image to complete processing. I'm fairly certain this is a Polaroid Series 20 film, made for the Swinger camera model made between 1965 and 1970.  Of course, the film packs were manufactured long after the Swinger went out of production, so this photo could have been taken after 1970, but the well-groomed hippie beard on dad screams 1960s.