This Classic Pentax K1000 35mm Film Camera was the 1st camera I ever purchased – from a camera shop on 7th Ave. in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY in 1996.
This particular K1000 was assembled in China & has a lid & bottom plate made of plastic.
This Tru-Vue Three Dimension Film Viewer is made of Bakelite & was most likely manufactured in the 1950s. (There is what I believe to be a date on the box of 3 – 54). Sawyer’s, the company that owned their competitor True-View, bought Tru-Vue in 1951 & moved their operations to Beaverton, Oregon, which is where this particular Tru-Vue was made. According to various websites, Sawyer’s coveted the valuable license Tru-Vue had with the Walt Disney Company.
This FM-AM Transistor Radio was made by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company. It was likely produced in the mid-1960s.
More info. can be found at —>>> http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/westinghou_h908pn9gph_908_pn_9_g.html
Race Relic photographed April 16th, 2013
Southeast corner of W. Pico Blvd. & S. Wooster St., L.A., CA
I was approached by a local shop owner while shooting this phone. He asked if I was working for a newspaper, so I showed him the phone I had just shot in my camera. It was then ok with him for me to continue. He opened up about how he’s asked the city repeatedly to remove the phone, one reason being that it attracts ‘black people’ who ‘scare away his customers’. Nonsensical, openly racist blather…
In The Red Relic photographed April 16th, 2013
North side of W. Pico Blvd. between S. Roxbury Dr. & S. Castello Ave., L.A., CA
This GTE Solitare 200 Cordless Telephone was manufactured in February, 1984.
Artribute Relic photographed April 11th, 2013
North side of Melrose Ave. between N. Genesee & N. Spaulding Aves., L.A., CA
This is a re-visited phone that I previously shot in May, 2012 & named ‘We See You!’ —>>> click here for an alternate view of this constantly changing Melrose scene —>>>
https://poppipix.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/we-see-you/
Also, check out more of the artist who painted this phone – the very art which drew me to photograph it (again ; ) – Bryan Snyder – at http://www.snyderartdesign.com/
Blue Bird Relic photographed March 26th, 2013
North side of W. Pico Blvd. between S. Mariposa Ave. & Fedora St., L.A., CA
This Kodak EK4 Instant Camera was manufactured between 1976 & 1978.
Here’s a link to the camera-wiki.org page for more info.:
This awesome AT&T Trimline Phone is Burnt Orange, has a Rotary Dial & is ready to hang onto a wall outfitted with a wall plate & jack.
The Trimline phone was introduced in 1965 with rotary dials. In 1966 touchtone capabilities were also offered.
According to the Trimline Wikipedia page:
In 1983 ‘AT&T begins selling phones, including the Trimline, to the public (as opposed to their previous leasing only policy).’
In 1984 ‘AT&T is divested of its regional operating companies and is prohibited from using the Bell name or logo, so the American Bell brand is dropped and replaced with simply AT&T.’
In 1985 ‘the rotary Trimline is discontinued…’
Because this particular phone has the AT&T logo that they began using in 1983 & has a rotary dial, I believe that even though it may have been produced in the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s, it was likely purchased between 1983 & 1985.
1969 Trimline advertisement.
AT&T logo from 1983 – 1996.
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