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Polaroid Lab film print on Polaroid film - photo made with Disderi Robot 3 camera on Fuji Superia 400 film
Polaroid Lab film print on Polaroid film - photo made with Disderi Robot 3 camera on Fuji Superia 400 film
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A vintage Polaroid colour print showing a brunette lady in a short-sleeved Mondrian-inspired dress posing in a 1960s interior. The following words are handwritten on reverse: "Sitting on the counter in one of the powder rooms".
Country of origin: USA
Taken back in 1967, here's my brother's wife examining something that he had picked up on one of his antique-hunting trips. This is a Spanish-American War vintage... maybe earlier, 45/70 Gatling Gun that he described as being "The deal of the century", "Too good to pass up", "Something I might never see again". His wife was surprised at its size and VERY unhappy that it now sat in a spot once occupied by a reclining chair.
I was on a long weekend liberty from the Coast Guard after receiving a phone call from my brother mentioning that we could go out to a gravel pit and do some target shooting if I could get the time off. He asked if I had any 45/70 cartridges left... I once was a hunter, and I said "Yes". He told me to bring everything I had.
After spending a night at home I drove to his place in New Hampshire and was surprised when I saw what we would be using at the gravel pit. I can't remember the manufacturer or model, and he would NOT tell me now much he paid for this item or where he found it. After the arrival of a few friends, we unmounted the gun and drove to a remote gravel pit which had a few junk cars that had been badly treated by various "target shooters". I can understand why he wanted me to bring the ammo... he had none, I had ten boxes of 20 cartridges. I can't remember how many cartridges a stick magazine held (there were two), but my supply didn't last 45 minutes. This thing did what it was designed to do... drink ammo as fast as you could turn the crank... not surprising since it had ten barrels. Everyone got a chance to "punish the junkers", and we were all grinning ear to ear when we decided to knock off. All the cartridges being shot away, we recovered the brass, packed up the gun and headed home.
After a shooting session firearms should be cleaned, and this is what we did, right away, Unlike with a single rifle that can be conveniently cleaned indoors, this beast required a LOT of work... more than ten times the work involved in cleaning a model 1873 trapdoor Springfield Rifle. I was VERY happy we weren't using black powder loads. After over 2 hours of work the gun was ready to be set up again in its "place of honor". One problem we discovered was, since we DID do the cleaning indoors... in the living room, a certain amount of Hoppe's Number 9 gun cleaning fluid had landed on the carpet. Even after removing all the rags and patches that had been used in the cleaning operation, the house smelled like the Hoppe's bottling plant. It was nearly a week before the odor was dispelled completely. Thanks to various stain / odor removers and kitty litter, the carpet was saved.
The gun lasted a few months until it's presence in the living room... a sore point with his wife, became "intrusive". After speaking with a number of fellow firearm enthusiasts, by describing what he had... and flashing some photographs, he found someone that considered his asking price to be a bargain... the deal of the century, too good to pass up. The next time I visited while on liberty, the gun was gone, it's place occupied by the reclining chair.
Before posting this I found my one remaining box of Winchester Super-X 45/70 405 grain cartridges and discovered the original price sticker... $5.19, purchased at some place called "The Surplus Shed". That means that cranking the Gatling, each discharge cost 25 cents. Checking on-line the same cartridges cost an average of $55 today... $2.75 a shot. So if you ever have an opportunity to snag your own "deal of the century" Gatling Gun, you should know that it will be a very hungry beast... very expensive to feed.
This photo is from an original somewhat faded and soft Polaroid print... not the best master to work from. But... it's the only one that exists of this gun before it found another new home.
I diagnosed and fixed the problem in my polaroid yesterday. Taking selfies with a polaroid land camera is not so easy when you have shortish arms.
My wife, left, with her kid sister at her sister's wedding in Thousand Oaks, California, back in 1977. From an old Polaroid print.
You know that feeling when you step on a snow bank but it's actually slush and you fall through getting your foot and your friends jeans that you borrow all wet and muddy? Yea that.
Polaroid print made with Calumet 4x5 view camera, using a Polaroid pack film holder; August, 1986; Madison, Wisconsin.
My mother sent me a small box with some old photos, among them was this polaroid print of my sister and me, in the back of the print my mum wrote : this morning January 12 Gabriel and Andrea with the dog" she didn't wrote the year but I'm sure it was 1978 or 79, we were living in Quito, Ecuador in those days.
yay!! i'm so lucky!! the sweet maditi send me some of her beautiful polaroid prints!
thank you maditi :)
what is Dave holding? could it be a limited edition polaroid print by the post family? perhaps...
want one of your own? more info will follow soon ;)
This is a picture my Dad took at Bear Lake, with Hallett Peak in the background, at Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, U.S.A. in June of 1968. It took me 36 years to get back there.
This is a scan of a Polaroid print. As I mention in another location, my Dad was a Polaroid man, but he would have loved digital cameras and inkjet printers. In fact, he would probably have a little 6x4 dye sub printer hooked up to cigarette lighter in some VW product if he were still around.