please have a couple for me...
Posted on 09/13/2011 6:35:17 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
Thanks for posting!!!
My parents grew up in Brooklyn in the 30’s, this will be SO interesting to them.
What screen?!?! We used a blank wall, white sheet or drawn white shade. lol
For the slides, see
http://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=525464
And did you notice the young boy with the young girl riding piggyback? He was also wearing a suit, and a tie!
Now that it is front and center of my mind, I may have to go there tomorrow!
Somebody said that this country was a lot better off when cigarette companies could advertise and lawyers couldn’t.
I read somewhere that it was very common (until the 1960s) for New Yorkers to sleep outside on hot summer nights, on fire escapes and such.
“What can I view those slides with?”
You need a slide projector. You can probably find one of those at a yard sale too.
Others can advise you better than I, but that’s what you need. The best ones, I think, had a carousel type set up, so you could load a bunch of slide in and spin through them. Simpler ones you have to put them in and out one at a time. These were actually rather dreaded, as it usually meant you’d be seeing your friend or neighbors very boring vacation pix!
As for a screen, you can just use a blank white wall, if you’ve got one of those available.
Very interesting, thanks for posting.
please have a couple for me...
I can vaguely remember those times. The cars in the pictures were just like those of my childhood. We had a man with a horse and wagon who would come into the neighborhood and sell fruits and vegetables to the ladies. All the ladies involved are gone now. A lot of airplanes had two wings and one still looked up when they flew overhead. Many of the streets where I lived at the time did not have paved sidewalks. We knew all the neighbors for years. What a loss!
I used this to convert everything to digital - I felt it gave good results and isn’t priced too high. The cheap ones that look like little boxes I tried and got very bad results with.
The change in NYC in the 1960s was rapid. But the entire country changed not long after. Why? Rapid demographic shift. Suddenly we had half the population of the U.S. under 25 years old. And that explains the ‘60s era and what’s followed.
Sawdust on the floor started out in days when fights were common in bars, violent fights. The sawdust was to soak up the blood and make an easier clean up.
Laz would hit it!
Baby Got Back!
But, even poor look how they dressed. Men and boys in suits, ladies in dresses. No woman ever went to town without her very best dress, hose, gloves and hats.
Today I see all the clothes in Macys, etc., and wonder where the hell do they wear them, as you sure don't see them on the streets anymore, no one dresses up anymore, not even CHURCH.
Don’t forget hippies! They ruin everything
Big ole bttt on that!!!
BTTT.
WOW! So would I.
Everything changed in the last half of the 1960s and from thereon.
We left California in 1969.
Sadly the most notable change is a lack of the US flag waving freely in the breeze.
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