Boxes & Bellows

A very nice vintage camera photography blog: Boxes & Bellows

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Reminiscing about Kodachrome 25

Kodachrome 25 was one of the most influential and popular films ever made. Alas, it is no more. It was discontinued by Kodak in 2002, with Kodachrome 200 following in 2006. Only K64 remains.
Here’s an interesting thread on photo.net reminiscing about K25 and Kodachrome in general:
Kodachrome 25 — Did you use it? - photo.net

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Switchboard by candlelight

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Originally uploaded by CitySkip

From CitySkip. Click the photo to view the whole set of images from New York City Blackout of 1977.
The landline phone system continues working even when the household power is out, of course. Most phones at the time were completely powered by big batteries or generators at the central office. [...]

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Life on McClellan Street

Here’s some street photography of a different kind. A typical neighborhood in Fort Wayne, Indiana in the bygone years of 1972 and 1973. There are some very nice photos.
McCLELLAN STREET - Digital Journalist
I was born in 1971 in Maryland, quite a ways from Indiana, and grew up in working middle-class neighborhood not far from Baltimore [...]

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That’s right! Monorail!

What this town needs is a monorail! Maybe like this one in Seattle.

Or maybe like this New York model!

Nah, I don’t really want a monorail. This is just an excuse to link to these nifty postcards from the Seattle Worlds Fair 1962
the NY fair of 1964/5 and Montreal’s Expo ‘67 (which for some reason did [...]

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Cameras Lost & Found

Here’s a nice story about a lost camera full of photos, and an honest couple who did some clever and persistent detective work to discover the owner and send it back home.
At dusk on New Year’s Eve, Erika Gunderson got into a taxi in New York City and entered a digital-age mystery. Sitting on the [...]

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Becca on the backyard swing, 1970’s

Scenes from our childhood
Originally uploaded by bcostin

That’s my sister Rebecca, probably around 1978 or so. This was taken by my father at Mom Mom & Pop Pop’s house.
My father left behind thousands of photos. Slides, mostly, but also a fair number of B&W and color negatives. This strip of negatives was probably one [...]

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3rd Avenue El - early 1950’s

A ride on an elevated train line through long-gone neighborhoods of Manhattan.

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Poor, Sad ol’ Slumpy

Moving a house looks like a pretty difficult thing to do. What happens if it’s done wrong? Well, it’s not pretty. This house went from an elegant home to a collapsing shell.

See the history of the house and the whole sad story of its gradual decay here:
slumpy … the William Livingstone Mansion in Detroit’s [...]

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PaX, Man?

The cute little PaX rangefinder is an unusual beast. This is the first model in the PaX series from Yamato Camera, manufactured around 1950 (not to be confused with a German line of PaX cameras, no relation). The styling was clearly inspired by the Leicas of the period, but the camera is actually quite a [...]

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