Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (053-056)

Several years ago I bought a flatbed scanner with a slide adapter to scan some old film slides that my grandparents had. After I finished scanning those, I picked up several batches of slides from Goodwill and on eBay out of curiosity. I am not sure why these commonly wind up at such places but I know that at least some of them have ultimately come from estate sales. Maybe family members just don't know what to do with them. I've seen them advertised as being for arts and crafts but I was more interested in the actual contents. Each slide is literally a snapshot in history. 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 as an interesting way to look back at the past.

When I say "batch" I mean a group of slides I bought in a single purchase. Usually they are from the same ultimate origin. Typically, a batch will have 100s or even 1000s of slides.

When I say "set" I mean a subset of a batch that 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 four slides. It's just easier to keep track of that way.

This set contains photos spanning from as far back as at least 1959 to as recent as at least 1980. Other than these slides coming from eBay, I have no idea of their ultimate origin other than the clues provided in the photos themselves.

These were all scanned with an Epson Perfection V600 Photo scanner.

All of these photos are dated in the late 1960s and it looks like they all feature a park/recreation center or school.

The first photo is has the date August 1967 stamped on it and is labeled "Playnight". It was taken in a gym and the people in the photo standing on the gym floor all have shirts with what looks like a park name on them. Presumably this was at a park/recreation center but I can't make out the name of the park on their shirts.

The next three photos are all dated February 1969. This also seems to be a rec center but given the difference in dates, it may or may not be the same one seen in the first photo. In the second and third photos which are labeled "Activities" you can see kids playing volleyball and basketball. In the last photo there are a bunch of adults that I assume are responsible for this place or the kids in some way.

_Playnight

_Activities

_Activities

See the previous post in this series here.

The entire batch that has been scanned and uploaded so far can also be found here. This also includes higher resolution versions and versions with postprocessing.

Check out some of my other recent posts:

Info (November/December 1986)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/info-november-december-1986

Zzap! 64 (June 1987)
https://ecency.com/retrogaming/@darth-azrael/zzap-64-june-1987

Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (049-052)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-049

PC World (November 2011)
https://ecency.com/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/pc-world-november-2011

Vintage Photos - Lot 6 (045-048)
https://ecency.com/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-lot-6-045