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Category Archives: Vintage

Day 344: Another Blast from the Past!

Friday, December 9, 2011

First, a photo already seen here a couple years ago, back by popular request!  The Dailylife Grandpappy, back when gas was a nickle!  (or so…) .And a new photo (for here…) that is much more recent:  Grandpappy and the Dailylife Niece #1, Big Wind! Both of these were scanned from prints.  You know, those paper […]

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Dynamite Memories

Friday, February 4, 2011

From the Belmont Club: Dynamite Memories A quick history of film and photography…be sure to read the second page and watch the Kodak commercial.  Some of the comments are pretty good too! ============================================== “By the 1960s, film was no longer so volatile, but flashbulbs still generated a lot of heat and smoke. Remember flashbulbs? They […]

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History’s first automobile roadtrip!

Friday, December 31, 2010

At Car Lust! “In today’s episode of Car Lust, we’ll follow a young mother and two of her children as they drive over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house in the family car. Sounds exciting, eh? “At this point, you may be wondering what’s gotten in to me. After all, taking the […]

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Day 318

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

On the road to my Sister’s Birthday Party… This looks familiar somehow… (1/1500, f8, 300mm, ISO 500) Meanwhile, somewhere back in time on the coast of Oregon… (Scanned from a photo…) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{> (At this point in the Space/Time Continuum, anyhow…!)

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It’s Over! It’s Over!

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Via Instapundit: “WORLD WAR I NOW OFFICIALLY OVER: On September 26, 2010 — 92 years after the WWI officially ended — Germany made her last payment of $94 million in reparations “to private individuals, pension funds and corporations holding debenture bonds as agreed under the Treaty of Versailles.” As Keynes rightly predicted, the unreasonably high […]

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Day 229

Saturday, August 14, 2010

From Argust 10th, a day to celebrate and shoot Argus Cameras! (Three photos from my Argus C4, stitched together in MS ICE!) ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Its Lileks Time!

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

A selection of vintage posts from http://lileks.com, a really neat view into the past! ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Postcard Art from the Golden Age

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

A collection of vintage postcards…pretty neat! http://lileks.com/misc/portfolios/index.html ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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Cruising…Old School!

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

http://lileks.com/misc/lurline/index.html Bonus:  Can you find the Argus C3??? ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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A History of Bathing Suits

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Ongoing… http://lileks.com/misc/bathing/1.html ~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>

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