Back to the subject of American kitsch (see Wednesday’s post): Charles Phoenix a vintage slide collector; features one slide from his collection each week on his website. He started collecting slides after a thrift store find of a shoebox full of 35mm family vacation slides. Y’all remember those don’t you? Well, perhaps only those of us born before 1975. My pop took loads of 35mm slides, after all this was a very thrifty way of documenting the family adventures. In fact, a few years back I hauled my own family-history-in-a-shoebox back to California from the motherland Canada. At the moment I don’t have a slide scanner so I can’t share, but as soon as I make this small investment I will be posting pieces of my vintage past.

Happy weekend everybody!