/272 - Projection

I’m really happy with how many projects I have cleared off the bench this week! Today the part I needed to fix the old Kodak projector arrived. Didn’t take long to replace and after a few false starts (ahem, issues in my reassembly) we were up and running. After dinner we all sat together and went through 6 or so trays of pictures taken in our area of western NY in the 50s and 60s. As previously mentioned, these came to me from an uncle who inherited them when his mom passed away and no one is exactly sure who they came from. There’s a lot of landscapes, but some really interesting people pictures. Going to try to set something up to get some higher res images of some of them. (One project done and another one added)

/203 - More Projects, Of Course

A few years ago, my uncle gave us a HUGE box of old slides and a projector. He said he wasn’t sure where they came from (something he found after his parents passed) but they aren’t of our family, though there are lots of local pics and what I assume are vacation pics. Most of the dates I’ve seen on them are 50’s and 60’s.

Emi and I were organizing in the basement yesterday and found them and she demanded to set things up to look through things. It all worked great until it stopped advancing slides and I’ve come to find out that there are plastic pieces in there that disintegrate over time. We were both really disappointed since there’s no way to change slides until it gets fixed, so I guess I’ll be digging into this very soon. haha