I bought a box of Urkelos in 1991 and kept it unopened and in perfect condition.
I sold it on Ebay in 2007 for $100.
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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
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I sold it on Ebay in 2007 for $100.
Horn & Hardart had an automat on the corner of 42nd St and 3rd Ave in Manhattan until 1991.
I ate there a few times in the late 70s/early 80s and my "cool" friends thought I was an idiot...
They may have been right, but I got to pull a piece of apple pie out from behind a little door!
That is when you need a six finger to mess with people.
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Hopefully there are some Photographers on this site but this photo looks so real it almost looks like a model? Maybe my eyes are changing but anyone else think this is “super real” looking kinda like a model? Just Curious what others see…this is on my iPad.
Kids please don’t drink and post…
Maybe you haven't seen quality news photos from the 1930s, taken on sheet film (typically 4x5)?
Consider that a 35 mm film frame has 24 x 36 mm image size (860 mm2) and 4 x 5 inch film has about 13,000 mm2 of image area. Then consider also that the black and white films of the era were pretty slow, but very fine grained. Finally, the famous images of the Hindenburg burning (there is a series) were taken by professional newspaper photographers, who had already pre-focused on and set exposures, and then processed by professional news photo processors who were supremely skilled at getting all the information out of a negative.
People who came of age in the digital and cell-phone photo era don't realize how much has been lost in the quality of photographic images, exchanged for speed and convenience.
Thanks for that excellent explanation. Yep I'm guilty of thinking old means inferior to new on a lot of things!
That photo is historic and hauntingly surreal!
You need to spend a little time with Ansel Adams. Read his books, especially "The Negative" and "The Print".
No one working today is doing what Adams did.
Just as teeny bookshelf speakers deliver inferior sound to a pair of giant Klipschorns (1947), just as VHS delivers an inferior video than Betamax, just as tweets deliver an inferior grade of interpersonal communication compared to a handwritten letter, in photography as well, the world has opted for convenience and speed over image quality.
Remember getting glasses and towels in boxes of laundry detergent?
gimmicky 1-800 numbers
maybe it's because I don't watch TV anymore but I'm sure it's the internet too
every single ad everywhere in the 90s would have a 1-800-WORD phone number
then it kind of seemed to move to vanity domain names in the early internet days
now it's just 'go find us on facebook or google' which is fine too
maybe it's because I don't watch TV anymore but I'm sure it's the internet too
every single ad everywhere in the 90s would have a 1-800-WORD phone number
then it kind of seemed to move to vanity domain names in the early internet days
now it's just 'go find us on facebook or google' which is fine too
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Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
Back when you had to pay for long distance, it was important. But lots of companies still have them.
I woke up this morning with these on my mind. I remember as a kid, being bussed out to a town with a pool for swimming lessons in the late 70’s. The attendant would give you a basket to put your clothes in and there would be a corresponding numbered safety pin which you would put on your swimwear which was needed to retrieve the basket after the lesson.
On a side note. I remember a sign that said “NO CUT OFFS” posted above the wall of baskets. It was years later before I realized the sign meant jeans cut into swim shorts and not amputees
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