School Daze

I remember it vividly. About exactly a month ago, I woke up to the image of a sheet of carbon paper left over from some dream in the early morning hours and, too, to the smell of fresh school copies made on cranked copiers. Strange nostalgia! I don't remember ever seeing one of those machines -- whatever they were called-- and I had to ask around if anyone remembered them. As a kid, I was always suspicious of a test if the page didn't stain my fingers with that warm, light blue or purple…

When I was nine years old, I began swiping my dad's old Ricoh camera with the fixed lens. He always seemed to have Kodachrome slide film in there. Guess what I got used to shooting? Pop had pretty much stopped shooting by then so there was not much concern that junior had swiped his camera. I kept that camera right through college. For Father's Day this year, Cheri got me a scanner that will scan and process slides into digital images. There is some irony in Kodak announcing the very next…

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ABC Afterschool Special. Ran from 1972 to 1997 in the afternoon around the time kids would get home from school, much to the chagrin of my mother who would be upset that she couldn't watch one of her soaps. You can find some of the older episodes on YouTube.

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Photos of a Washington, D.C. area high school by Esther Bubley, taken in 1943. I see that my most of my bw photos are still uploading in sepia. I've decided that Blogger is the Microsoft Word of posting environments - making "helpful" changes you don't really want. Update: I've learned how to cancel out the sepia effect. Have to go in to Picasa and edit photos back to bw there. This can only be done in Chrome. A demonstration of the correct procedure in applying street makeup in a home…

The students were photographed by Nina Leen, one of the first female photographers for Life magazine, as they went about their normal routines in music, writing, science, philosophy and model construction.

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After school.. Walking home.. 1940s

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Mariemont High School Prom, 1958 Ohio

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Off for the first day back to school - with lunches packed in sacks or metal lunch boxes - fall 1958 in So. Calif

Highland Park, High School Teenagers, Texas 1947