Christmas afternoon. We weren’t doing anything else, so we decided it was time to open up those boxes of 35mm slides we’ve been carrying around for all these years and decide what to do with them.
We found baby pictures of our kids. Our Northglenn house in 1969. Our honeymoon pictures from 1966. Spring vacations to Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in the VW Bus when the kids were little. Slides Mom and Dad took on their trips to Northern California and the Grand Canyon. And to our great surprise, we found a box of slides labeled September 1945. These slides were taken on a trip from California back east before I was born. They’re from 70 years ago! We didn’t know they even did slides then. They were still in their original mailing box, sent to 49 E Platt Street in Long Beach, California. The postage was marked for 1 ½ cents. We had no idea these slides were in our possession; guess they just migrated over with Mom’s slides when those got passed along to us.
Anyway, we spent the entire afternoon going through slides. Once we got started, we couldn’t put them down. We viewed every slide with our little 3 inch illuminated viewer; deciding which slides warranted digitization. What an extended blast from the past. We thinned them out quite a bit, but there are a lot remaining. We plan to share them.
Here is a preview. The slides are better than this. This is a shot with my camera of each slide displayed in the viewer. We expect much better results out of the digitization.
Brother David.
Brother Tom.
Brother Bill.
Mom and David.
Bill, Tom, and David.
This should serve as our warning. We have slides, and we’re not afraid to use them.
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