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 batch of slides that I bought on eBay a while back. I don't have as much to go on as to the ultimate origin of these compared to the previous batch I was working on. They came to me from eBay and most likely were picked up at an estate sale by the seller. Most of them seem to be taken in the 1960s and same individuals are included in many of the photos. It looks like there are some that were taken in Miami and some that were taken in New Jersey and perhaps elsewhere. I get the impression that Miami was a vacation spot for this family.
The first photo is undated but was likely taken in the late 1960s. It shows a woman...I feel like I should give her a name at some point since she is in so many of these photos...picking grapefruit, most likely somewhere in South Florida. They seem to vacation in Florida but this looks like it is at someone's home, maybe friends or family they know who live in Florida.
The second photo is undated but would have also been taken in the late 1960s. It shows the entrace to an amusement park. This is probably also somewhere in South Florida but there is not much to identify it here except for the ticket booth. There have been a couple of photos from this place in previous sets.
It looks like the flash failed to work in the third photo. What detail I can see makes it look like this might be a Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner.
processed June 1968
The third photo was processed in June 1968 and features the lady of the house with her pet cat. You can also see a newspaper and magazine of some kind in this photo. I always hope to be able to pick out a date or headline to more accurately date the photo. Usually, the photo is not clear enough to make out that level of detail. After all, newspapers and magazines are rarely actually the subject of a photo. However, in this case I think I managed to identify the cover of the magazine on the chair. It appears to be the May 4th, 1968 issue of TV Guide (see below) which means this photo was probably taken that week.
TV Guide for the week of May 4th, 1968
See the previous post in this series here.
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