Topic: Old slides bought at Goodwill (W/Pics)

[78 k550]

Hey All,
I bought this Argus case last week for 5.00 it contains 7 magazines of slides about 30 each.
magazines are labeled.
Berlin
Berlin
Paris
Holland
Holland
Munich/Nurnburg
Rothenburg/Dinkewburg

There taken in the early to late 60's some may be earlier. There is some really neat old stuff.
Here are some misc pics.
I have a bunch more.

Paul

[78 k550]

A couple more.
Let me know if you want to see more. I can copy them with my digital camera through my loupe.

Paul

[Terry in Australia]

Beautiful pics Paul, and kind of sad that these moments in someone's history ended up in a Goodwill store. My dad was an avid photographer all his life, and has thousands of slides and photo's in several filing cabinets at home.

Sadly he's in hospital and probably won't be coming out again, and once my mum goes, I'm not sure what we'll do with them all. Please post some more pics, I'd like to see them. Cheers, Terry.

[dave500]

good job with the loupe!

[Frankjr]

Terry, sorry to hear about your Dad. Getting old is hard on all of us.

Paul post away, some of us will never get to see those places except in pics like you have.Thanks!

[kghost]

Paul...nice pictures.

Terry...sorry to hear about your Dad.

Mine too loved taking pictures....I had his old Pentax he bought in Costa Rica in 1969 restored for him a few years back....

Its probably the only thing I'd like to keep when he's gone.

In recent years he's bought a USB plug in slide reader and has started converting many of his slides to Digital.

Hope your Dad is comfortable.

[70CB750]

I am sorry about your dad, Terry.

The pictures remind me of this story, it was in news few month back:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2587919/Former-dustman-salvaged-5-000-historic-photographs-WWI-heroes-action-RUBBISH-DUMPS.html

[ekpent]

I have sold quite a few old home movies that were taken in the 40's-50's etc on E-bay that I have gotten from estate sales etc. Check it out sometime, there is a pretty good market for old movies and certain slides and pictures depending on the subject matter 

[78 k550]

I have sold quite a few old home movies that were taken in the 40's-50's etc on E-bay that I have gotten from estate sales etc. Check it out sometime, there is a pretty good market for old movies and certain slides and pictures depending on the subject matter 

I will look into that.

Paul

[78 k550]

Sorry to hear of your Father Terry. I had a proscan 65 meg on 1 slide done the other day. 45.00 and a free 8x12.
yours conversion could get costly. It depends on thet quality you want to view them in. that 65 meg file will now get me a 16x20 and then some.

I know where some of the places in some slides if you know shout out.

I am sorry about your dad, Terry.

The pictures remind me of this story, it was in news few month back:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2587919/Former-dustman-salvaged-5-000-historic-photographs-WWI-heroes-action-RUBBISH-DUMPS.html

Nice story I'll have to finish it after work.

Paul

[333]

Slide scanners can be had new in the area of $100.00 (U.S.) and you can scan them yourself.  I have an old one that takes about 3-4 minutes for each slide, but the newer ones are much faster and have higher resolution.  Most of them do negatives as well.

[Bob Wessner]

Very neat, like photographic archeology. I came across my fathers old Kodak folder camera still loaded with some film (B/W), 127 format. The pictures we think were around 1980 because my nephews are in the pictures at their old house. Developed them, and though there was some base fog, they would probably be printable with some effort. I like finding old cams with film in them.

[Glenn Stauffer]

Pretty cool photos.

Sorry to hear about your dad, Terry.  My dad was an avid photographer as well and left behinds tons of 35mm slides and a few boxes of 2.25x3.25 negatives from the Speed Graphic camera he used in the Army.  I ended up buying a Minolta slide scanner, then a Canon flatbed scanner that has the capability of scanning film.  Scanning and organizing everything, though, takes tons of time.

[78 k550]

Pretty cool photos.

Sorry to hear about your dad, Terry.  My dad was an avid photographer as well and left behinds tons of 35mm slides and a few boxes of 2.25x3.25 negatives from the Speed Graphic camera he used in the Army.  I ended up buying a Minolta slide scanner, then a Canon flatbed scanner that has the capability of scanning film.  Scanning and organizing everything, though, takes tons of time.

what do you like better film scanner or flatbed? can you tell the difference in quality?

Paul

[faux fiddy]

Whoever took them was a good photographer, and had nice compositions.

Anymore everyone has a camera, but most people know nothing about taking a good picture. Back in the day it cost a fair chunk of change to do photography and most people had some clue of what they were doing.

[78 k550]

Whoever took them was a good photographer, and had nice compositions.

Anymore everyone has a camera, but most people know nothing about taking a good picture. Back in the day it cost a fair chunk of change to do photography and most people had some clue of what they were doing.

He had a good eye for it.

Paul

[MoMo]

Pretty cool photos.

Sorry to hear about your dad, Terry.  My dad was an avid photographer as well and left behinds tons of 35mm slides and a few boxes of 2.25x3.25 negatives from the Speed Graphic camera he used in the Army.  I ended up buying a Minolta slide scanner, then a Canon flatbed scanner that has the capability of scanning film.  Scanning and organizing everything, though, takes tons of time.

what do you like better film scanner or flatbed? can you tell the difference in quality?

Paul

Paul, in my business I had both a film scanner and flatbed.  Flatbed was more useful as it would do film up to 4x5 and prints up to 11x14.  Film scanner had a higher res but for the Average Joe it didn't matter.  I used an Epson...Larry


PS  Keep posting

[dave500]

in my work as a garbage driver we often have a load from deceased estates containing all their bric a brac,often with an old box of black and white photos.

[70CB750]

in my work as a garbage driver we often have a load from deceased estates containing all their bric a brac,often with an old box of black and white photos.

I thought of you when I read the story on that dustman 

[dave500]

ha!im the original Steptoe?one mans trash=dave500s treasure?

[78 k550]

I wasn't sure what a dustman was but figures it to be a garbage man.

Paul

[dave500]

Lonnie Donegan - My Old Man's a Dustman

[simon#42]

was there anything on the back of the photos to identify where they were taken ?

not sure about the first two
the third is paris
the fourth is tower bridge london
the fifth could be part of the tower of london [ or not ]
the sixth is schnelldorf germany
not sure about seven and eight
nine is the karl Theodore bridge at Heidelberg
ten could be anywhere

very interesting though ,  alot of americans came back to europe in the early 60's to re visit the places they had served in the war
wonder if the photographer was an ex service man returning ?

[333]

Difficult to write on the back of slides.

[MoMo]

Difficult to write on the back of slides.

Most old slides were cardboard so writing info on them was very common.

[Terry in Australia]

Thanks for your kind thoughts everyone, my dad is still hanging on, but his condition is deteriorating, so I'm not expecting that he'll be around for much longer.

Like Tim's dad, his weapon of choice was a Pentax, and he took it all around Europe and the US. "Slide Nights" were a big social event at our place when I was a kid, and I successfully avoided most of them, whenever possible.

Dad would have the old Kodak Carousel projector set up in the lounge room with a dozen or so cassettes ready to go, Mum would serve their victims, er, guests all manner of snacks and drinks while the room slowly filled with cigarette and pipe smoke. Luckily for me, the smoke was usually thick enough for me to Leopard Crawl out fairly early in the proceedings. 

He did take some wonderful pics though, maybe we'll hold a Slide Night in his honour sometime soon. Cheers, Terry.