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Photography

Ziggysmom

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4. I don't have the photo any more, but an uncle let me take a picture of my pony when I

Reply to OldBaldy1701E (Original post)

Wed Apr 13, 2022, 12:38 AM

Apr 2022

was little, using his new fangled Polaroid! I remember back in the 60s, you had to rub some smelly chemical on the photo after it developed? A couple years later Pop got me a cheap Kodak camera and I remember dropping off film at the ol' Fotomat booths!

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I had a thought. [View all] OldBaldy1701E Apr 2022 OP

Not a chance I could remember that. I started taking pictures when I was about three Walleye Apr 2022 #1

Wow. Your parents had a darkroom at your house? OldBaldy1701E Apr 2022 #3

I don't have the image anymore but my older sister AndyS Apr 2022 #2

I don't have the photo any more, but an uncle let me take a picture of my pony when I Ziggysmom Apr 2022 #4

I remember taking pictures at summer camp when I was about seven or eight. Grumpy Old Guy Apr 2022 #5

I'm calling this one as mine, from the 1964 World's Fair HAB911 Apr 2022 #6

I take it you saw several 'cars of the future'? (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Apr 2022 #7

Sure did! I have only 3 surviving photos HAB911 Apr 2022 #8

My first camera was a half-frame usonian Apr 2022 #9