Last Days of Playland, 1968-72Scanning about 100 slides and trying to sort out the dates, both of these have the same processing date of Sept 1972, one is obviously earlier & was reprinted on a Kodachrome Duplicate slide mount.
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Last Days of Playland, 1968-72
Scanning about 100 slides and trying to sort out the dates, both of these have the same processing date of Sept 1972, one is obviously earlier & was reprinted on a Kodachrome Duplicate slide mount. I mean, there weren't 2 of these benches. #sfhistory #playland #sanfrancisco
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Last Days of Playland, 1968-72
Scanning about 100 slides and trying to sort out the dates, both of these have the same processing date of Sept 1972, one is obviously earlier & was reprinted on a Kodachrome Duplicate slide mount. I mean, there weren't 2 of these benches. #sfhistory #playland #sanfrancisco@DavidGallagher I’ve got a bunch of old slides from family history. What tech do you recommend these days for scanning?
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@DavidGallagher I’ve got a bunch of old slides from family history. What tech do you recommend these days for scanning?
@ELS it depends on what you plan to do with them and how many there are. I use a flatbed scanner to do it, but I have thousands to do and want them super high resolution so I never have to do it again, ever. You can snap them with your phone or other camera pretty quickly and effectively. There are dedicated devices that accept a stack of slides and do a bunch automatically that sound pretty good and economical. The main thing I've learned that's helpful is to keep them in order, possibly write a number on them, so if you do need a better scan someday, you can find it. (also, in general for any famliy photo item, write a description on it in pencil or on the back for photos, so that someday whoever finds it will know what it is
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@ELS it depends on what you plan to do with them and how many there are. I use a flatbed scanner to do it, but I have thousands to do and want them super high resolution so I never have to do it again, ever. You can snap them with your phone or other camera pretty quickly and effectively. There are dedicated devices that accept a stack of slides and do a bunch automatically that sound pretty good and economical. The main thing I've learned that's helpful is to keep them in order, possibly write a number on them, so if you do need a better scan someday, you can find it. (also, in general for any famliy photo item, write a description on it in pencil or on the back for photos, so that someday whoever finds it will know what it is
@DavidGallagher Thanks! I was thinking flat-bed, but I also know that those stacker things exist, but not if they are as high resolution. I do have a flatbed, so that’s probably what I’ll use. Fortunately, my mom was compulsive about labeling the backs of photos, so at least those are identifiable.
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Last Days of Playland, 1968-72
Scanning about 100 slides and trying to sort out the dates, both of these have the same processing date of Sept 1972, one is obviously earlier & was reprinted on a Kodachrome Duplicate slide mount. I mean, there weren't 2 of these benches. #sfhistory #playland #sanfranciscoWow. Before my time. Was this replaced by Pier 39 tourist trap stuff or is this some other location?
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@DavidGallagher Thanks! I was thinking flat-bed, but I also know that those stacker things exist, but not if they are as high resolution. I do have a flatbed, so that’s probably what I’ll use. Fortunately, my mom was compulsive about labeling the backs of photos, so at least those are identifiable.
@ELS This is probably overkill but my process (which I came up with for OpenSFHistory) is to create a catalog number(a prefix defines the format --slide photo, negative, etc), attach that number to the physical object (or an envelope of enclosure for negatives) create a spreadsheet with the numbers listed to record the metadata (a title description, date taken , and other details), scan the item, and name the file with the catalog number, Later in whatever catalog software (i use Adobe Lightroom) I can merge that metadata into the file itself.
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Wow. Before my time. Was this replaced by Pier 39 tourist trap stuff or is this some other location?
@EricBono Playland was at Ocean Beach in the Richmond District, Great Highway between Fulton and Sutro Heights. The amusement zone at the beach was there with different names from the 1910s until 1972 when it was demolished https://sfmemory.org/Display/sfm001-02313
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@EricBono Playland was at Ocean Beach in the Richmond District, Great Highway between Fulton and Sutro Heights. The amusement zone at the beach was there with different names from the 1910s until 1972 when it was demolished https://sfmemory.org/Display/sfm001-02313
Thanks, I'll check this out. Been a few decades since I lived in The City. I'm realizing that name does ring a bell but I never heard much about it. Maybe, if I'd ever lived in that district.
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