Garage Sale Score!

These past two Saturdays I have been going to garage sales like I keep telling myself I was going to do for the past fours years. I read the listings in the Friday paper and highlight the ones that look promising. I then Google map the route. This is what I got today:

Other peoples memories. Specifically 35mm slides of a vacation through Europe sometime in the 1950's. The photos are absolutely stunning. I have been wanting to make a lampshade like these for a long time now. I am almost positive that I have an issue of ReadyMade that has the tutorial for it. I hope so at least...yikes...I should so see if I can find it....

At any rate, I want to get the images preserved digitally so I am going to take them in batches to a local place that will convert them to jpgs. I would do it myself but slide scanners are super-duper extremely pricey.

I taped a few slides to the window and took a picture with my digital camera and they didn't turn out half bad. In fact I found a tutorial on how to do this and get better results, but I don't have a tripod or a slide light box so the window will have to do for now.

Guess where this is:


The handwriting on this one says "Verona - Juliet's Balcony": (I love that car)

Amsterdam I think:


I haven't counted all of them but I am going to guess that between both cases there are about 350-400 slides. Maybe I'll make two lampshades.