Interesting 1910 fruit display in a store

[Daniel D. Teoli Jr.]

 

 

 

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Over the years I bought a few photos from this seller for my archive. But it is just too $$ now. They keep raising the shipping to crazy prices. Shipping is almost the same as the price of the minimum bid. Add sales tax and you are in the low $40s for 1 photo. Now some photos may be worth it. But most of theirs are not worth that much to me.

The last photo I got from them was an interesting glass plate with a bunch of people in an old general store that looked to be in Alaska, and they brought a horse into the store. I have to scan it sometime. Right now, been working digesting 4 -5 feet of old mags to breakdown. Usually not a big deal to scan things, but I have to pull out a special scanner that is in storage that can handle 8x10 glass plates.

It would be nice to have an archive with equipment all set up and you walk up to it and can just do your work. Even have a mold room where you can work with moldy material like the toxic waste that it is. Some of the material an archive gets is moldy and sometimes it is just not replaceable. So, you deal with what you got when it comes to digitizing it. If you do have moldy material to digitize you can microwave it. But you have to be careful about burning it. I’ve done lots of work with it…moldy material seems to find me.

All the old stores had crates, barrels, glass, ceramic and baskets for their food. No plastic back then. I don’t know if this is a display to sell fruit or just set up to take the photo. It doesn’t look too practical for customers to pick fruit. Although back then I think you asked for what you wanted and the storekeeper got it for you.

I’ve seen a lot of old-time bananas. All the bananas I see in the photos look kinda nasty. The bananas have changed over the years due to varieties dying out from disease. The bananas we eat now are low quality compared to the bananas we had when I was a kid. They were tasty as hell back then. But that variety is no longer sold. It died out. I don’t know if it died out 100%, but it died out enough from disease to not be commercially sold. You check it out.

 

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[Simon Wyss]

So what’s the cinematographically interesting thing about it?

[Daniel D. Teoli Jr.]

Nothing.

This is the Off Topic section.

[Simon Wyss]

Good, please accept my apology for the question.