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July 26, 1910. Card game in tent city on the beach at Rockaway, Queens. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
Vacation bungalow colony at Rockaway, Queens, c. 1910. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection. Note "front yards" of sand decorated with seashells.
More of the Rockaway bungalow colony in 1910. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
July 26, 1910. Tent city on the beach at Rockaway, Queens. View full size. 5x7 glass plate negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
Another Kodachrome slide from the Shorpy shoebox, labeled "Florida 1960." View full size. Could there be a postcard on eBay showing the same motel?
Today we continue documenting the annual vacation odysseys of the Red Chevy family from Great Falls with a 35mm Kodachrome titled: "Great Divide at Kicking Horse Pass, Yoho National Park, Alberta, Canada. July 18, 1961." I found these on eBay — picture after picture of the family car, a 1960 Chevrolet, every summer from 1960 to 1964. More below, including the actual kids. View full size.
Kids of the Red Chevy family. "Camping near Many Glacier. Glacier Nat. Park, Montana. July 3 1960." Underexposed Kodachrome. View full size.
Somewhere in Hawaii in 1962 - who can tell us where? 35mm Ektachrome transparency from a California thrift store. View full size.
"Going-to-the-Sun Hwy., Glacier Nat. Park, Montana. June 8, 1963." 35mm Kodachrome transparency. View full size. Today we continue our selection of vacation slides found on eBay and in a thrift store out west (tip of the Shorpy cap to Tom Munoz). Above is the vacationing Great Falls family we met yesterday, in a picture taken the year after this one. Anyone ready for a sandwich?
"Bath house at Lukens Lake near Peru, Indiana. July 1956." 35mm Kodachrome transparency. View full size.
1956 Chrysler and owner at the Crescent View Apartments, somewhere in Florida. 35mm Ektachrome transparency. View full size. This is the sensible-looking kind of lady who ran the world when I was a little kid - growing up in Florida!