Old Time Photographs - Remembering The Past.

Thanks for sharing these Ron. I love photos like this.
Unfortunately I have nothing to share of my own, but look forward to seeing more.

Great thread. I actually collect vintage photos - I buy them online, or antique shops, or flea markets . My past two girlfriends have thought its creepy and my friend said to me recently "yes i think its weird that you have photos of other people's family on your walls" Lol. But when I buy a vintage photo I look for stuff thats unique, if its odd, or makes me laugh or smile or feel some sort of emotion - I tend to like ones that have humor or make you say WTF?!?

Maybe I'll share some from my collection on this thread - but for now - Ron, your post reminded me of a photo my aunt recently scanned for me. Its of my great-grandfather too. His name was Arthur Weindorf he was a listed artist, a published political cartoonist, architect that helped design some of NYC's subway stations (his work is in some archives in Manhattan). Every time I find one of his paintings or drawings on ebay, I buy it. Anyhow - for some reason, later in life he also was... a barber. He held speed records (I suppose locally) for the fastest straight-blade shave. After he died NYC declared a day in his name for that year.

A funny thing I read once in an old article that reviewed some exhibition of his political cartoons - they called him 'a piddling punster and ugly draughtsman'. I googled the term "piddling punster" and nothing came up - so I think of my great grandfather as THE original piddling punster. Ugly draughtsman - refers to his drafting work as an architect.

I'll post the original photo and the photo I spent some time cleaning up in photoshop. The scan quality wasnt the best (and the original I'm downloading from my facebook because I cant find it on my PC at the moment.
Before (my grandfather is seated in the photo):

After: You gotta love the "Weindorfs Hair Raiser & Dandruff Exterminator"

Thanks Ron, I like to think the same.

I'll post another. Not of any ancestors this time - but this is one of my favorite photos from my vintage photo collection. When I see shots like this - I think... I have a virtually unlimited memory card, I can see my photos instantly and literally take about 50 photos over 5 seconds.... and I believe I'd have a hard time capturing this shot that was done so well probably 60 years ago - presumably by an amateur.

For some reason I love this image - the form, the old school outfits and swim trunks, the really-strong framing and composition, the sharp focus, the slight amount of motion blur, the kid in the bottom right in an old swimsuit, the expressions and posing of the bystanders, and the pool that looks like its empty - which is funny to me (from other shots I have I've learned that thats just what they used to look like).

The original photo is 3"x5" - I had it scanned at 2000 DPI - cleaned up the dust and what not, and had it printed 30 inches wide... the print shop said not to bother trying to blow up something so small so big ... it came out awesome though and is the focal item in my living room.

Lol, I was thinking the same

Thats one thing I like about it... it makes it look so odd.

very nice finds