Vintage Photos - eBay Set #1 (145-148)

See the previous post in this series here.

I made some impulse buys after getting a new scanner and picked up a huge batch of slides a while back. These pictures span from as early as the late 1940s to as late as the early 1990s. These were from Goodwill and eBay (sometimes via estate sales). There are many thousands of these slides. I will be scanning some from time to time and posting them here for posterity.

This set continues a batch of slides that I bought on eBay a while back. I don't have as much to go on as to the ultimate origin of these compared to the previous batch I was working on. They came to me from eBay and most likely were picked up at an estate sale by the seller. Most of them seem to be taken in the 1960s and same individuals are included in many of the photos. It looks like there are some that were taken in Miami and some that were taken in New Jersey and perhaps elsewhere. I get the impression that Miami was a vacation spot for this family.

All of the slides in this set were processed in May 1969. At first, I thought these photos might be from a wedding reception. But as the couple involved seemed to be the older couple featured throughout many of the photos in this batch, the timing seemed unlikely. However, you can see a "25" on the cake in the third photo so it would seem this was a 25th anniversary celebration which makes a lot more sense.

In the first photo, the woman is holding up a check in what looks like the amount of $2800. I'm assuming this was an anniversary gift. $2800 would be a pretty nice gift today but in 1969 that would have been the equivalent of roughly $22,000.

Presumably they had live music at this celebration as the last photo features a drummer.

_{processed May 1969}

The entire collection that has been scanned and uploaded so far can also be found here. This also includes higher resolution versions and versions with post processing.