1950s Views
Today's slides were from a batch that was very faded - I don't know if they were always this way, or if the emulsions diminished over the past 60+ years. But, luckily, Photoshop can help in a big way! As I said in an earlier post with slides from this batch, I wish I'd remembered to save "before" images, but I forgot to do it. Durnit!
This smiling woman reminds me of one of my 2nd grade teacher, which makes me automatically like her. I wonder if she worked with kids?? I could see a photo like this showing up in an early souvenir guidebook.
Next, she and her mom (?) smile as they gaze at the wonders within the Ruggles China and Glass Shop on Main Street. I need several ceramic figurines to put above my kitchen sink, and perhaps one or two in my den. If they have decorative salt and pepper pairs, there is no telling how much money I'll part with!
5 comments:
Major-
I presume your second grade teacher had that 'stylish' 1950's hairdo - tres chic-!
As for the Ruggles China and Glass Shop - somebody keep me away from that tiered glass shelving in the back - as I may have to acquire that pair of hideously-colored pandas-?? just waiting to grace the top of my blonde wood cabinet of our television set.
Thanks, Major.
Hmm, she has a rather odd hairstyle. Maybe it's just the angle? The photographer did a good job with the depth of field; she's in perfect focus, while the Castle is appropriately out of focus, so as not to distract from her.
The glassware looks nice but I'm constantly expecting to see multi-tiered, decorated cakes on the pedestal-like glass thingys. The lace around the window adds to the decorated cake look. Your 2nd grade teacher is a smart dresser!
Nanook, maybe those pandas are koalas?... Or guinea pigs? Or very small kaiju? :-p
It's always nice to see some rescued slides from certain destruction, Major. Thanks. For only nineteen dollars a month a person can sponsor a rescued slide and give it a good home... after it's been spayed or neutered.
Any picture that shows what’s for sale in the shops—is a gem! Nanook, those pandas look ‘part pig’….very strange critters. Am I maybe seeing a little Christmas elf on that bottom shelf?
Thanks, Major.
” The glassware looks nice but I'm constantly expecting to see multi-tiered, decorated cakes on the pedestal-like glass thingys.”
JB, there’s plastic fruit…what more can you ask for. ;op
That lady looks like somebody famous. Rosemary Clooney, perhaps?
I now have my grandmother's large collection of milk glass items, like those in the window of the Ruggles Shop. In fact, the collection includes that same square covered candy dish on the far left, and that lacy "bowl-on-a-pedestal" in the middle. JB, the collection does include a cake stand!
Thanks, Major!
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