The Buckets by Greg Cravens for April 12, 2021

The past…….

Magic.

I recently saw an episode of “Agatha Christy’s Miss Marple” set about 1920. A character had a Kodak Brownie camera with which he secretly took repeated pictures: click, click, click, click, just as we would expect of a modern camera. But the producers of the program didn’t bother to show that the camera had to be manually wound after each shot to advance the film.

My wife was showing our granddaughter some old photos yesterday

There is one of me over thirty years ago in a white tuxedo, I was a groomsman in a wedding

Best picture ever taken of me

Granddaughter had trouble believing I ever looked that good

https://xkcd.com/1235/

We’re not putting as many photos in long term storage, but we’re taking a lot more of them. I think the outcome is a wash.

God made ’em.

It was the olden days!

Legit question. For a tad. My youngest is 24, and he took a digital camera on his big HS trip.

The picture Fairy.

Ok here’s the conundrum, Eddie’s been around since 1996, long before smart phones became ubiquitous, but he’s still roughly the same age. So how far back does his memory go?

Things I don’t miss about the past…

Waiting 4 days to see how my photos turned out.

Waiting for the dial tone, or for the busy signal to clear when making a call.

And who ran up this long-distance bill with two 1-hour calls to Topeka, KS?