Thanks to some unexpected cash that came into my life last couple months, I was able to pay off a bill, buy new socks, up my monthly donation to Doctors Without Borders, make some donations for animal rescue efforts in hurricane-ravaged Houston... and pay for another batch of old photos to be scanned. The last time I could afford to do this was five years ago, so it was a nice to be able to treat myself to something senselessly expensive and cool like this.
All of the photos I have left for scanning are photo negatives, so I don't really review anything. I just send them in and hope for the best.
This batch ended up being pretty special.
There were photos of my parent's wedding I hadn't seen before. Amazing photos of my mom when she was very young. Fascinating photos of my grandparent's life from a bygone era. And, of course, lots of photos of me and my brother growing up.
Also interesting? A trip to San Francisco by my mom's parents to visit my parents, assumably just before I was born in 1965(?)...
One trend I noticed was oodles and oodles of plaid. My brother and I were drenched in it for half a decade...
Another photo trend was me on vehicles.
How many people can say that their first car WAS A FIRE TRUCK?!? ME! I CAN TOTALLY SAY THAT! Just look at me! All chill as fuck while cruising down the sidewalk in my sweet ride! Acting like I don't care and all the world is my bitch. SO BAD-ASS!
Holy shit! My second car was a Corvette... WITH WORKING HORN!
Here's where things started going downhill. Apparently my third car was a wagon...
There are hundreds more photos waiting for me to look through them, so I'm sure "Throwback Thursday" will be a trend for a while here. Or not. Guess it depends how boring my life is next week.
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Just call that third one a “GTO” and you’ll be fine. 😉
Awesome, very cool 🙂
I’ve been manually scanning my parents’ photos. They have been meticulously labelled with dates and places and people. Surely there’s got to be some historical value to that..?
Maybe! Though my photos will likely only be of interest to me… but that’s okay! 🙂
Great pictures. I bought a negative and slide scanner to digitize my late father’s slide collection, an amazing collection mostly from the 50’s and 60’s. The scanner is easy to use – it was about $200 on Amazon (Wolverine is the brand.) I stumbled across a box full of APS negatives, and scanned those, I was amazed at how well and easily it converted the negatives into positives. I was please to be able to do this myself.
Any suggestions for the box full of 8mm movie film?
I haven’t scanned movies yet. My friend went with Legacy Box and was happy with their results… https://legacybox.com
What is it about old film photos that is so pleasurable to look at? Is it mere nostalgia? Probably. Modern digital photos seem cold to me. I think I’m just an old man, and long for the old days, that’s all…
THIS IS SO COOL!!!