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Busy day on Monday, so here's my Macro Mondays "Back in the Day" offering ready to be posted.
Those familiar with the technology will know what the pencil is for!
I hope this counts, as I believe they are also making a bit of a comeback (Kylie limited edition Golden sold out recently on this format).
Very much part of the 70's for me...
GROUP: MACRO MONDAYS
THEME: BACK IN THE DAY
I have no idea why I'm still hanging on to this calculator, my very first one. I know it has helped me a lot in passing exams that I could have not done with a slide rule!
"THE BRITISH MUSEUM - A History of the World
The darning mushroom would have been an essential tool in an era when women were constantly repairing worn socks. Before the advent of synthetic materials, socks and other items of clothing were in constant need of repair. Darning would have been considered a necessary skill for girls and young women, part of their education as future wives and mothers. The mushroom was used to make repairs to clothing, bed linen etc a practice that has largely disappeared with the development of modern textiles."
Mushroom is 2.75" across
Yashica MF-2 is a 35mm viewfinder camera made by Yashica in 1980. The camera has a fixed shutter speed of around 1/125 second (vary on flash on/off). It uses 2 AA batteries to power the pop-up flash and the meter cell. My father-in-law used to use this camera in nineties when he was young.
West Side Highway, NYC (357 West Street)
10/2009 - Replaced with better resolution scan of the original negative
Some of my older Flickr friends will recognise these two. I found this shot in my stream and realised I hadn't actually posted it. For many years, I started my day with strong, black coffee aka mud! However, I seem to have moved over to taking tea first thing. To Flickr friends old and new, have a good day!
A joystick controller from my Atari 2600 games console.
To explain my thinking behind this: Modern games consoles have multi-buttoned control pads which have made the single button joystick controllers obsolete.
HMM!
Vintage Presto-Matic automatic bob pin curler 1940.The apparatus inserts bobby pins into a curl. My mother was a hairdresser and received this gift when she retired in memory of her job
In the years when boundaries in Europe were still guarded by customs offices (“Douane”) , many countries had import restrictions . For example , when going abroad on a holiday , the camera (or any other valuable goods ) had to be registered and marked properly , to avoid the payment of import taxes when returning home . In this case , a metal seal with a registration number is seen to be attached to a Brownie Fiesta camera (from the 1960s) .
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For MacroMonday's 'Back in the Day' challenge.
I had to use a slide rule and log tables at high school, but shortly after calculatirs were allowed. Now it is computers.
This was part of a communications system used, back in the day, to track and dispatch firetrucks in Austin Texas. Now each truck has a laptop and gps and this beauty lives in a museum.
Internal shot of disc carousel on an old juke box still complete with the singles discs . When selection is made by the listener the carousel will turn to the selection mechanism the disc will be removed from the carriage ,the tune will be played when finished the mechanism will put the disc back in the carousel and select another . All very clever. HMM !
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Back in the day clay pipes were so common they were dropped pretty much everywhere. This one turned up in our garden when I was digging a a section over one time. I guess it must have been there for quite some years.
Once Upon a Time (no that was a couple of weeks ago).....Back in the Day, we in Britain used Billions and Billions of these; Paper One Pound notes. They changed many times over the years, but these are examples of the last type-used before going over to the One Pound Coin. HMM
This is an analogic camera I bought in Marrakesh. I always wonder who owned this camera and what kind of photos dis he o she took.
This is the top of a telescoping TV Antenna. It is pretty much useless now in the day digital transmission (not to mention cable or streaming). Fully extended it is over three feet long. That is bigger than the TV! I partially extended each section to make a more interesting macro. This section is about 2.5 inches long. I chose a green background (my son's English binder) because it reminded me of 1960s/1970s décor.
HMM! I'm glad to be back this week. I missed a couple of weeks traveling.
My first camera.
For Christmas I received a Kodak dark room kit with a contact printer at age 10 along with this camera. 1969.
It has a 2.5” x 4” negative. The date written inside is 12/6/41, making it 76 years old. Older than me!
They do not make them like this any more!
I wish I had some of those photos! :-(
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The top of a tethering ring. Either tie up your horse or husbands here!
You can see the whole thing in the next photo in my stream or via this link:
www.flickr.com/photos/44506883@N04/41177460881/in/datepos...
Also with many thank to Graham bondog61 for coming to my rescue again. When I first told him what the subject was and saying I was stumped. He said use one of the tethering rings ... Logical Batman!
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Wick adjuster knob on a mantle lamp.
Thanks to my mom in law who still has mantle lamps that belonged to her mom.
HMM!
Macro Mondays: BackInTheDay
I remember when .... programming flowcharts were done manually, hours were spent keying punched cards for program and data.
Macro Mondays: Back in the Day
Back in the day, people used loupes to look at negatives. This one belonged to my dad.
It's photographed on a copy of "Ulysses, Annotated", explaining the term "Easter Duty", the obligation to receive communion from the first day of lent through Trinity Sunday, 8 weeks after Easter. An obligation to confess as well is implied as well. Arguably also a Back in the Day kind of thing!
100mm + 25 mm extension tube, polarizer, tripod (of course),
HMM
* Fraternal organizations such as I.O.O.F. and Freemasons were an important part of life in the late 1800s. A local historian mentioned that some students at the nearby high school wondered why the building always said One Hundred Degrees Fahrenheit.
Frat, charitable providing food clothing for members of the community "Who are those odd fellows?" per American Pickers. ;-)
Elaborate rituals, costumes stage scenes parable Good Samaritans doing good deeds