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As I'm sure you'll know if you or any of your Flickr friends live in London, these are the slides that have been put into the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern Gallery.
Sadly I haven't had a chance to go down them yet (I was on my own with a big rucksack when taking these photos) but it looks great fun. Some of them look really fast!
Stay tuned for more photos (probably in weird colour treatments - a recent fad of mine).
You can find details on the exhibition here.
Okemo Mountain Resort is a ski resort in Ludlow, Vermont. Before becoming a popular ski resort destination, Ludlow was originally a mill town and was the home of a General Electric plant until 1977.
Okemo features an Alpine Slide which is pictured here. Common sense has prevailed over the last thirty years as today these cars are locked into the track unlike when I was younger and too much speed could cause the car to jump right off the track.
Another of my oldest slides. This is from 1964 in St. Louis. My Dad took me, my brother and a boyhood friend from our neighborhood on a special flight in July of that year. Ozark Airlines had a special promotion that summer called "Sightseeing Excursion Flights". These were about 20 minute flights around the St. Louis area for, well, "sightseeing". We were kids and loved this little summer adventure. The plane we flew in was the historic DC-3, which was a mainstay of the Ozark fleet back then. Ozark also flew Martin 404's, Fairchild F-27's and eventually joined the jet age with the Douglas DC-9. My Dad took this shot as we flew over the now iconic St. Louis landmark, The Gateway Arch. . .only half-way built! The downtown riverfront area was being renovated during the mid-sixties. A brand new stadium for both the baseball Cardinals and the NFL Cardinals would be finished in 1966. I still have the brochure and souvenir ticket for the flight. The Fare was $2.77. . .Taxes was 23 cents. . .Total charge for the flight. . .$3.00. It was my first ride in an "airliner". A fun memory from the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer!
Year: 1964
Film: Ektachrome 64
Camera: Voigtlander Prominent (Rangefinder)
Lens: Nokton 50mm 1.5
date stamped on slide February 21, 1987. Handwritten on slide: "Florence, Skip, Johnny, Isabelle, Marge -- Pasadena"
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