The box below contained 13 rolls of exposed 127 film of various types. As you can see it also contains a Brownie Holiday Flash Camera (c1954-1962.) There’s a couple of 620’s in the box, too. It came from an antique hunter in Maine.
Not all of the photos are from the enclosed camera of course. The formats are different etc. But the time frames are pretty close. No matter. They’re wonderful time capsules.
The rolls were wound up tight and glued shut. A couple are labeled but the ink has faded and they are illegible. Somebody cared about these shots from sixty something years ago but never saw them.
I’ll present the photos that were salvageable as I processed them.
In some rare cases I may have slightly improved the shots by increasing contrast etc. Mostly they are presented as they would have been seen by the photographer when he or she received from the local drug store.
Mystery after mystery after mystery.
I’m gonna make a wild guess here. Grand Canyon, AZ.. The guy on the right appears to be looking into a waist-level camera viewfinder. The other is looking for rattlesnakes.
There are more from the canyon but they contain terrible light leaks which obliterate most of the images. Apparently it’s very sunny in Arizona.
1959 Oldsmobile at Photo Shack (twelve minute service.) I guess processing and printing a roll of film in twelve minutes causes a lot of light leaks.
I’ve processed hundreds of rolls of black and white film and processing the film alone takes much longer than that. Maybe they use hot developer in Arizona. You don’t care. You just want to see the pictures.
I think the woman is carrying a fishing net. It could be a snow shoe for her one legged husband, but I don’t think so.
People used to live in an Adobe. Now we buy expensive software from Adobe.
I’m just going to present the next few photos without my usual witty commentary. You can make up whatever stories about them that you want.
