Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for December 09, 2015

Yay! Boog got one right! Great art (especially of Mark Twain and George Eastman), these past 2 days!

Bill Gates soon?

Maybe Mr poloroid

Eastman Kodak. We used to hear that name all the time.

Gee I wonder what people took pictures of before “selfies”?

The very first close up of a human face was a “selfie”. It was a self-portrait by Robert Cornelius. (Thank you, Josh Reads, the Comics Curmudgeon for this tidbit of information.)

“PolAroid”. The first thing Mr. Land invented was light-polarizing plastic, which later went into sunglasses.

Bill Gates was never a serious player in photography. Steve Jobs wasn’t, either, until the iPhone came out, which meant a major shift how photography was used.

Kodak’s famous original slogan (1889) was, “You push the button, we do the rest.” Within four years, it had spread all over the world. His original camera came loaded with film for 100 shots; when it was all used, you mailed the whole camera to Kodak, and got your pictures back with the camera reloaded.

I once read that Linda Mc Cartney, Paul Mc Cartney’s late wife, was the grand daughter of George Eastman.

Timers, squeeze bulbs, and tripods.