That Retina! What a beauty! And not crappy at all as you said.
The stripes, which I assume are from the drying, make an ominous feel to the photos. Like the sky is falling.
The gate and the barge photos are the best and not that crappy. In film photography, you should always think of the extra stuff that comes to the photos during developing as characteristic layers that give that something extra, some call it crappy, others, in digital photography for instance, call it filters. Like Instagram filters. :D I like this crappiness way better than any digital filter.
I don't know why, but if you would have shown me this kind of photos taken with a modern digital camera or a phone, of course usually in color, I would have thought that they are much more crappier than these. Although the end result may be the same I think photos taken with a film camera are more valuable. At least in my head. And I think as the modern cameras and smartphones are so awesome and it's really easy to take good photos with them, there should be no excuse to take crappy photos but I still see lots of those. Although, what is crappy to me may not be crappy to someone else. Anyway, crappy film photography and early crappy digital camera photos are in a higher crappy level than high quality crappy camera photos.
RE: Taking the Kodak Retina II out for a spin