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Old Stuff – Antiques

One of my wife’s favorite pastimes is browsing in antique stores and malls. I frequently accompany her on these visits, occupying my time shooting photos, usually with an iPhone, of items or displays that I find interesting and/or nostalgic.

Fuzzy Blue Ducks – A large plates decorated with ducks in a pond

I recall seeing the Memorex magnetic recording tape commercials many years ago, but I do not recall Memorex brand radios, which seems strange, since Memorex came into existence in 1961, while I was in high school. I had a Westinghouse clock radio in my bedroom then, not Memorex.

Having photography as a hobby, I’m always drawn to displays of old cameras.

The vendor of the booth in which this odd electronic device is displayed has an elaborate description of its ability to transport one in space and time. I see no Flux Capacitor, but there are numerous potentiometers in its Circulator panel.

Cameras, comic books and yams. What can be better?

Remember when cameras were manufactured in the U.S.?

Six-20 Camera, as opposed to Brownie Scouts or Fudge Brownies.

Not sure what makes these “Lucky”, but it was a popular brand for years.

Sieves used for sorting some materiel by diameter, probably have/had numerous application in industries. Maybe these even were even used for particle size distribution analysis of data that I used in my job, prior to retirement.

Colorful lamp shades hark back to the early days of popular home electric lighting.

Rows of colorful glassware always catch my eye,

as do rows and shelves filled with old cameras. Such displays remind me of how fast technology advances. This image (and all others in this post) were made with a device that is obsolete, even though it is only a few years old.

Not Dak Prescot, but seen in Dallas.

From Wikipedia: “An anastigmat or anastigmatic lens is a photographic lens completely corrected for the three main optical aberrations: spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism. Early lenses often included the word Anastigmat in their name to advertise this new feature”.

I learned something new from this old camera.

All the best,

Ken

Indiana, Fall 2021, Part 4

More iPhone photos from antique stores.

Glassware of all sorts and colors are in plentiful supply is such places.

Monochrome conversions often work well for images of the glassware.

Wooden crates are common offerings in antique stores. I’m old enough to recall the time when these crates were used and most soft drinks came in glass bottles, rather than cans or plastic bottles. These crates were useful for sitting on, when placed on end and it was not uncommon to see these used in such a fashion.

I do not recall these Campbell soup crates in use.

Instead of an RC cola and a moon pie, how about an RC and a vinyl record?

Later,

Ken

Indiana, Fall 2021, Part 3

This is continuation of the iPhone photography in Indiana antique stores during the early days of our two week fall stay in Indiana.

Older photographic equipment always gets my attention. I’m glad I do not have to use those items.

Some of those pictured in this poster, seem to be misclassified as Rock and Roll musicians. After noting one such collage of these bad criminals, I began to see these more often in this area.

Bad guy entertainers may be unpopular here, but alcoholic beverage items are prominently celebrated.

And Bing Crosby is ok.

I started this post with pottery items, so maybe I should end it with pottery.

More later,

Ken

Indiana, Fall 2021 – Part 2

This is the third year of visiting Indiana in the fall. The first visit was mostly to attend a few of the Covered Bridge Festivals, visit my wife’s relatives and see the fall color. We were about a week too early for the fall colors during the first visit. We visited a little later in the fall last year and we were late for the fall color peak. Many of the larger trees were already bare, thanks to a storm that came through the week prior to our visit. We thought we had the perfect timing this year, but we were early, fall color was late. Most of the trees were still mostly green and just barely beginning to show some color.

We were staying two weeks this year, so I decided there was no need to rush out to photograph. I could wait a few days and hope for the color to arrive before we departed for home.

During the early days of our time here, I went out with my wife, sister-in-law and brother-in-law to do those things they wanted to do. The first full day we were here was the last day of the Covered Bridge Festivals, so we went to one of those that day.

I’m not convinced that this sign conveys what the creator and seller of this product intended. It seems to suggest that there may already be indications of health issues associated with tobacco smoke. Wouldn’t effective advertising avoid bringing attention to any possible risk to using a product?

The following early days of this visit we drove to antique malls or stores, which the others liked to browse. These drives allowed me to monitor the fall color progression and I used my iPhone to practice getting mostly indoor photos of various objects in the antique places.

I could, at least, reminisce about watching Saturday morning cartoons as a child.

The one on the left might shoot the other two, so maybe they were not amigos?

Surely, the Wicked Witch of the West wore these in The Wizard of Oz?

More next,

Ken

Indiana, Fall 2020, Odds and Ends, Part 2

This is a continuation of my iPhone photography in Indiana Antique Stores in October, 2020.

I think the camera in the middle is an Argus brand. I had an Argus C3 that I acquired, when I was in high school. I do not know what happened to that camera.

There are always lots of old jars, bottles, dishes and glassware in the antique malls. Sometimes the displays make interesting photograph subjects, sometimes not.

Lard was a common cooking item up until not so many years ago and I suppose some people may still use it. It was a common item in my childhood home.

One of those tools looks out of place. I even have a rusting Sears Craftsman handsaw in my garage, that I’ve not used for many years. It does not have the carvings on the wood handle that this older one has.

More bottles and jars.

An old Automobile Service Station Jar, iPhone Photo

Was this bottle used to contain gasoline or motor oil?

Antique Wood Spoke Ford Automobile Wheel, iPhone Photo

This wheel was still attached to an old automobile or truck in the backyard of an antique store in a Indiana small town. The blue bottles in the photo above the wheel photo were in the same outdoor space near the automobile.

That’s it for the antiques and this wraps up photographs from our fall trip to Indiana.

Ken

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