"Progress In The City"

 

Looking at this slide, I can imagine the bored lecturer at Croydon Tertiary College, standing in front of the Art and design 101 class, saying "And as your first assignment, grab a amera, and head off outside, and photograph something on the theme of Progress in the City. Be back here in 6 hours, and tomorrow we develop the films."

Voila !

Bonus - Robo-penguin: how artificial birds are relaying the secrets of ocean currents

Bonus 2 - Man inserts live eel into rectum from anus in hopes to ‘relieve constipation’.   As you would do...

Myrtle Beach 1982

 

Bank Holiday Monday, here in the UK. (I guess that USA and other former colonies have Public Holidays or something.)

So, I bet people have been taking the chance for a inal visit to the beach ... which links in to this 49 year old slide from South Carolina.

Bonus - The Ecology of Good Weed

Bonus 2 - 

"This One Is For Granny"

 

OK, there's some hints that this could be a Christmas photo, but, dammit, it looks hotter than my summers.

Always a great cliche to have the kids dress up as cowboys and smile for granny.

Bonus - Michigan couple must pay son $30,441 for throwing out porn collection

Bonus 2 - 

Saturday with the Family

 

A Sunny Saturday in August. A perfect time for a family get together with pizza and coca-cola and stuff.

And maybe some beers for the adults.

Bonus - Mayoral Candidate Punched, Interrupted by Sex Toy on Drone at Event

Bonus 2 - Why is there no blue food?

Freddie the Fashionista

 

Yesterday, we had Jo modelling her casualwear. Freddie took that picture.

Today we have roles reversed, with Freddie modelling a drab brown sweater, and Jo driving the 35mm rangefinder camera.

And they're still in Devon. 

Bonus - Age-Related Test

Jo's Devon Trip (again)

 

Continuing our retro hipster fashions series, here we have Jo posing for her (his?) significant other, and practising her Kay Catalogue posing skills.

I guess the unisex look was cool back in the mid sixties.

Bonus - It's all about perspective 

Hipster Fashion Throwback

 

Funny thing about fashions.

Wait 30 or sixty years, and things become fashionable again.

Like Nancy's checkered golf slacks, and Troy's patterned shirt.  Probably trendy for influencers nowadays.

Bonus - Thanks to JayN, I've been heading down the punk nostalgia rabbit hole.  eg  The Dead Kennedys Kill The Poor.

Bonus 2 - X-Ray Spex - Oh Bondage! Up Yours!

The Spinny Thingamabob.

 

Although it never achieve the level of fame as The Spinning Jenny, Oscar Arkwright's "The Spinny Thingamabob" was essential to the success of Matlock Bath's Ferret Sock manufacturing empire.

Bonus - Charlie Brooker takes aim at movie clichés for Netflix

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The Unhappy Graduate

 

You'd assume that anyone going through a graduation would be slightly happy, but this 'ere Herbert seems to be the exception.

Perhaps the lowest-scoring student has to wear the Blue Gown of Shame.

Bonus - 

The Ronson Family

 

An excellent family portrait, courtesy of the camera's self timer.

Mr & Mrs Ronson, their two sons (Eric and Clarence) and their two spouses (Gabriela and Lucille).

Bonus - Pouring molten metal inside a seashell

Bonus 2 - 

The Neighbourhood Guys

 

If you've got a problem, the Evergreen Terrace Boys can solve it. Probably.

Bonus - The Unexpected History of the Air Conditioner

Bonus 2 - R.I.P. Peter Corby 

D3419 Sopwith Camel

 

Or, to be more honest, a Sopwith Camel replica.

Googling suggest that it might belong to the RAF Museum at Cosford, but It's not the Camel that is usually on display.

Bonus - 

What in the Flub...?

 

Regular readers (both of them) will be aware that I often become obsessed with details in the background...and today is no different.

There's a band or musical group in the background, and the squeeze-box is easy to spot.

But what are the other two guys playing? It looks like some sort of snorkel-kazzoo, or maybe some sort of jew's harp?

Can anyone help?

Bonus - 

Normal Service Has Been Resumed

 

And here's a picture of a Funny Looking Kid to celebrate.

Thank You Virgin Media for eventually solving their problem. It's a pity that outages happen, and it's a pity that I have to spend cold hard cash to cope with such extended periods, but at least the issue was sorted within 36 hours.

Bonus - R.I.P. Sean Lock.

Young Gerald at Play

 Ir was only when I played with the contrast / lighting of the slide that I realised that Gerald was accompanied by a large black ... Rooster.

It was tempting to post something about BBC...but no. I'm not that childish.

Bonus - Virgin Media - fix within 24 hours?  My Arse, you incompetent cockwombles. 

Stupid VirginMedia!

 Very crappy internet service today.  I'll catch up tomorrow...hopefully.

An Early Appearance

 

Of an European Airbus A300 (I think) on the Airshow circuit.

Bonus - Virgin Media are currently doing a poor job of providing a Broadband service ... so no surfing for me. :-(

Martha, outside the Summer Cottage

 

Martha is the daughter of the fabulously rich merchant banker Charles Heatherington-Whipple, and is pictured posing outside her family's modest retreat in The Hamptons. The family are so rich that they've purchased the cleansing of the internet, so you won't find any information on Google about Charles, Martha, or their drug-fueled Summer expeditions to Greenland..

It must be nice to be that rich.

Bonus - Why Even the Fastest Human Can’t Outrun Your House Cat

Bonus 2 - Your nipples are older than your teeth.

Marvin and Marcie Travelling The World

 

Sorry.   I'm a bit preoccupied today.

Prom Queen of Yesteryear

 

Alas, even with the best will in the world, not every old slide is a  classic. 

This slide, labelled as Prom June-56 Me and Mom, is faded, speckled and unfocused. Even with a mild bit of noise removal, and correction, it will never be as good as intended.

But, it captures an important moment is a girls life, and can never be recaptured. Sixty Five years on... I wonder what happened to them.

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Look To The Skies

 

Praise Be for little old ladies who take once-in-a-lifetime voyag
es through South America, take pictures of just about anything, then write detailed descriptions of what they saw onto each individual slide.

Or Praise Be to Edith for short.

In this case : 

Machu Pichu Sun Dial Knowledge of astronomy was very advanced. Incas had a lunar calendar of 12 months. It is not known exactly how they operated the sun clocks.

OK.

Bonus - 

Rufus, the Polar Bearhound.

 

It was the days before genetic / DNA testing, so no-one is really sure what Rufus was. 

The story is that he just turned up in Fairbanks, Alaska, and was adopted by the local vet. Some said that he was a chunky, albino Golden Retriever, while others said that he was a freaky progeny of a Polar Bear and a Norwegian Elkhound.

Before there could be any scientific investigation, Rufus wandered off and was last seen on a plane to Wisconsin.

Bonus - Chinese netizens try to pad their Olympic stats with Taiwan's medals

Bonus 2 - Climate change prediction from 1912

The Greek Sector of Antarctica

 

One of the lesser known research stations on Antarctica is The Spartan Station in the Greek Zone. 

The story of why Greece has a small patch of the southernmost continent is strange enough, but even more incredible is the frosty dome that covers the 23 squ km Greek Zone, which allows the use of geothermal heating to create a microclimate biome, as shown here.

At some later date, I shall reveal more of this magical area.

Bonus - Weather Station Kurt  was an automatic weather station, erected by a German U-boat crew in northern Labrador, Dominion of Newfoundland (nowadays in Canada) in October 1943.

Pastoral Petting Pursuits

 

Hallelujah!  We have some info on this slide !    

Barby, Sheila pet lamb, Gillhouse Farm, 1963 Aug.

Which is, like, nice. I suspect that this Gillhouse Farm is in Devon.

Bonus. 

The Throne of Citrus Royalty

 

Featuring the Dowager Queen Orange, and Princess Clementine.

From Cypress Gardens in Florida. Trust America to come up with an impressive yet lame tourist attraction based upon fruit. 

Bonus - The Feces Problem on Everest Needs a Solution.

Bonus 2 - 

Happy Birthday Sister

 

Today is my sister's birthday. Her XXth birthday to be completely open and honest.  Happy Birthday!

(No, this isn't a slide of her or her chum, but... it could be.)

Bonus - Urine for a Treat.  Nine Fascinating Facts About Urine

Smile for the Camera

 

Nostalgia.

Back to the 1950's when life was simpler, and husbands photographed their wives and daughters.

Or perhaps mistresses and daughters. Who knows.

Bonus - The Body’s Most Embarrassing Organ Is an Evolutionary Marvel

And yet we have very little idea where anuses come from.

Bonus 2 - 

The Reflecting Pool

 

Something has gone slightly wrong with this slide - Slightly over-exposed at original creation, the colours have gone a little strange over the years.

Ah, the impermanence of  Ektachrome E6 slides.

Bonus - The Long History of the Electric Car

Bonus 2 - Missing man found dead inside Spanish dinosaur statue

Over Cardigan Bay ???

 

Ah. Cardigans.

Never out of fashion, because they were never in fashion. 

Popularized by these two Herberts : Herman Herbert (Left) and (right) Henry Herbert.

Bonus - Philosophical Captchas !

Economic and Commercial Section

 

Well, that appears to be what's written above the doorway.

I wonder why someone photographed this...

Bonus - Warship Hit By Monster Wave Near Antarctica. Gulp

Bonus 2 - 

Sleeping Baby

 

Curious thing about babies. They all look sweet and innocent in pictures, but they could have grown up to be Drug Dealers, or Nurses, or Embezzlers, or High Court Judges, or Olympic Medallists, or Social Media Influencers.

So much potential for Good or Evil.

Bonus -    Mr Lordi lead singer of Finnish band Lordi gets his second vaccine dose in Rovaniemi.

Watching their Troubles Recede over the Horizon

 

I was going to give this slide / post the title of "Good Bye Old World".. but I feared that there might be hundred of panicky phonecalls to me / police / suicide prevention hotlines.

Just a nice image.

Bonus - And now one of my rational fears. The closure of Nutty Putty cave.

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