I decided to indulge my curiosity after getting a new scanner a few years ago and picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and eBay. I'm not sure why these commonly wind up at places like eBay but many seem to ultimately have come from estate sales. Maybe family members just don't know what to do with them or don't care. I've seen them advertised as being for crafts and such so maybe they are commonly used for that purpose. I was more interested in the actual contents. Each slide is a little slice of history from a particular time and place. These pictures span from as early as the late 1940s to as late as the early 1990s. There are thousands of these slides. I will be scanning some from time to time and posting them here mainly because I find them an interesting way to look back at the past.
I don't know a whole lot about the ultimate origins of this batch of slides other than they came from Goodwill. Like previous batches, these too often have a date stamped on them that I assume indicates when the film was developed and I believe in most cases should give approximate dating for the photograph itself. So far these seem like mostly vacation photos that were taken in the 1960s and 1970s. I've identified places in Italy, France, Mexico, and Hawaii so far.
What I mean by "batch" and "set" because sometimes I even confuse myself:
Batch = A bunch of slides I bought in a single purchase. Usually they are from the same ultimate origin but not necessarily. Typically, a batch will have 100s or even 1000s of slides.
Set = Subset of a batch. A group of slides I scan together. There are normally four slides in one set because that's how many slides my scanner can scan at once. Likewise, a post will typically have one set of fours slides. Organizationally, it's just the easiest way for me to handle things.
This is a mixed set with a couple of photos from Mexico in 1966 and a couple from Hawaii in 1975.
processed September 1966
The first photo was processed in September 1966. According to google images it features the Fountain of Prometheus at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City.
processed July 1975
The second photo was processed in July 1975. I'm guessing this was some kind of traditional Hawaiian dance demonstration.
processed July 1975
The third photo was processed in July 1975 and features some kids playing on a beach in Hawaii somewhere.
processed September 1966
The last photo was processed in September 1966 and is definitely my favorite of the bunch. Mainly because it features an airplane with the tail number clearly visible. With that info, you can generally easily find the entire history of the aircraft and this one was no exception. The below history comes from https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=116580 and https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenfielding/5574949823/.
- 1947 Constructed as a DC-6.
- 25 October 1947 - Transferred to Braniff Airways with new registration N90883.
- 24 January 1966 - Transferred to La Jolla Associates.
- February 1966 - Transferred to Aeronaves de Mexico with new registration XA-JIF.
- 10 October 1966 - Transferred to Henry L. Seale.
- 7 March 1967 - Transferred to William J. Brennan with new registration N90883.
- 14 August 1969 - Transferred to Bellomy-Lawson Aviation.
- February 1970 - Converted to a DC-6F (freight).
- 10 March 1970 - transferred to Caraibische Lucht Transport with new registration PJ-CLF.
- 3 April 1972 - transferred To Bellomy-Lawson Aviation with new registration N11225.
- 19 December 1972 - transferred to Pan African Airlines with new registration 5N-APK.
Basically, this was an early DC-6 that was constructed in 1947 and delivered to Braniff Airways in October of that year. After 19 years, it was sold to La Jolla Associates in January 1966 and leased to Aeronaves de Mexico in February 1966. This is when it became XA-JIF and it was during this tenure that this photo was taken. In fact, it was only a month or so after this photo was probably taken that this plane was returned to the lessor in October 1966. It was then ultimately sold to Bellomy-Lawson Aviation in August 1969 and converted to a freight plane in February 1970. It changed hands several more times throughout the course of its life but it looks like it was flown until around 1977 or so and then used as an engine test bed until 1986. It must have sat around a while after that but it was ultimately scrapped in 1991.
I'm guessing that this was a plane that the photographer was getting ready to board (or had just gotten off of) when this photo was taken. You can search the internet for 'XA-JIF' and find lots of other pictures of this plane throughout its life including some at the sites linked above.
See the previous post in this series here.
The entire collection that has been scanned and uploaded so far can also be found here. This also includes higher resolution versions and versions with post processing.
Check out some of my other recent posts:
Byte (March 1987)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/byte-march-1987
Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (285-288)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-goodwill-lot-1-d6f23ab815ac9
Digital Archaeology: Dell XPS Gen2
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-dell-xps-gen2
Vintage Photos - Goodwill Lot 1 (281-284)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-goodwill-lot-1-8e38eb60b0e26
Compute!'s Gazette (February 1984)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/compute-s-gazette-february-1984
Compute! (March 1981)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/compute-march-1981
Check out my other Social Media haunts (though most content is links to stuff I posted on Hive or reposts of stuff originally posted on Hive):
Wordpress: https://www.megalextoria.com/wordpress
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/darth-azrael
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Darth_Azrael
Blogger: https://megalextoria.blogspot.com/
Odyssee: https://odysee.com/@Megalextoria:b
Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-2385054
Daily Motion: https://www.dailymotion.com/Megalextoria
Books I am reading or have recently read:
Red Sails Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch
The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch
