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 on 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 listed as being for arts and crafts so I assume 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.
When I say "batch" I mean 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.
When I say "set" I mean a subset of a batch that is a group of slides 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. Organizationally, that's just the easiest way for me to handle things.
These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.
All of the photos in this set were taken in April 1956 as indicated by handwritten dates on the slides. These were all taken in Pompano Beach, Florida.
Like the photos in the last few sets, all of these photos were taken in a place called Storyland which was an amusement park/roadside attraction on US1 in the Pompano Beach area featuring nursery rhymes as a theme. This park first opened in 1955 but closed permanently in 1964 when damaged by hurricane Cleo.
This set features attractions related to The Cat and the Fiddle, Peter Pumpkin Eater, and Pinocchio (a toy shop of course), as well as a ride with rockets. I'm not sure what the theme for the rocket ride is (if any).
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:
Computer Shopper (September 1994)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/computer-shopper-september-1994
MegaCon 2012: Emerald Rose (13) - Donald McGillivray
https://ecency.com/hive-181335/@darth-azrael/mssdowag
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (609-612)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-609
Digital Archaeology: Floppy Disk #14 – ITSOVER.DOC
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-floppy-disk-14-aae6ebf3c3762
Vintage Photos - Lot 3 (605-608)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-3-605
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Books I am reading or have recently read:
Red Star Falling by Steve Berry.
A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians by H.G. Parry
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson
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