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 teachers, 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!
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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!
That lady looks exactly like my childhood best friend's mom in the 1960's. People dressed so much nicer back then. At least the people I see in GDB photos. Thanks, Major.
Major, I think we went to the same school. She looks very familiar. The first photo is very well done, with that watercolor castle in the background.
My Mom would have loved that window display as she had lots of glass goodies too. I still have a few pieces, including a footed candy dish the same shape as the milk glass one except clear and red glass mixed. The older lady’s reflection in the glass is well done too, thanks to the skillful photographer.
Disney used to have costly merchandise like this, now it’s a pave’ rhinestone Millenium Falcon model for $35,000.00. I don’t think those are pandas or pigs, I think they are koala bears.
Thanks Major, these are extra fine today!
JG
That anonymous comment was me. Don't know why it did that. Guess I wasn't signed in.
Nanook, my second grade teacher had a pixie cut but it was different than the woman in today’s photos! I was wondering what those “pandas” are, I was thinking “bears”, and maybe “koala bears”, but they are not exactly museum accurate.
JB, I’ll bet for the 1950s that woman’s hairdo was kind of “modern”. I wonder if it was based on the hairstyle of a movie star? That’s how trends often start. Seeing that glassware reminds me of going antiquing with my mom in the midwest, with stores FULL of all kinds of “antique” glass. I especially remember tons of carnival glass. And yes, I vote for koalas too! I think everyone who reads GDB should give me $19 a month. I’ll make nearly $100 12 times a year!
Lou and Sue, it is kind of fun to be able to see the merch! And notice, not a single Disney character is visible!! I can’t tell if that’s a Christmas elf, but was thinking that those blue things nearby might be snow globes.
Lou and Sue, I can ask for a lot more than plastic fruit!!
TokyoMagic!, I think the woman looks like she should host a local children’s TV show, along the lines of “Romper Room”. My mom has some milk glass, though she loves glass of all kinds and colors, we have cupboards full of the stuff. Not sure what we will do with it all when she passes.
Anonymous, yes, I think that lady has “one of those faces”, as if she’s somebody we all once knew!
JG, I loved my second grade teacher (Mrs. Cole), but she left partway through the year because she was going to have a baby. Mrs. Wold replaced her, and she was mean. She would literally yell at kids for coloring outside the lines! As I said to Sue, I’m truly amazed that there is not one hint of Disney merchandise in that window display, that would not fly today. I remember seeing that rhinestone Millenium Falcon, it was kind of neat in a way, but not “$35,000 neat”!!
K. Martinez, ah… it’s nice to hear from you!
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