Ready Readers & Colossal Cameras
Open up your arms and feel the warm embrace of those finer days we've left behind.
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Gather 'round children
Viewing photos on slides seemed like such a novel idea. Of course, unlike a regular photo, you needed special projectors or monitors to actually enjoy the photo. Good thing there's an app for that.
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B&W colorization
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Surrealism star
Born on this day in 1896, Andre Breton would go on to be a leader of the Surrealism movement in Europe post-World War I. While his writings became canon for the movement, the Vichy government banned his writings at the beginning of WWII forcing him into exile until 1946.
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Decipher the decade
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Take a look in a book
Without screens, a good book was a valuable source of storytelling. This little lady knows that finding a good chair is just as important as the book you read in it. In which decade was this taken?
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Blast from the past
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Camera comedy
If anyone sees Big Foot around, please let him know his camera has been found.
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The 1870s are today's deciphered decade (1876).
We'll be back tomorrow. See you then :-)