Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Retro-Wednesday.....





And yet another relic from the past...Gone by the wayside.

The Poloroid Land Camera. Circa 1974. Complete with Flash Bars!

"It's more than a camera, it's Almost Alive!

It's only Nineteen Dollars and Ninety-Five"......

Peace...!!!

24 comments:

  1. I loved mine - today's digital is like a George Jetson dream!




    Aloha, Friend


    Comfort Spiral

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  2. I remember those when they came out.. lol.. the flash would turn black after it was used.

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  3. I had one of those when I was, like, 10. I'm really glad my digital camera doesn't have those icky flash things. And you still have this why?:)

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  4. I loved Polaroids. I'm still heartbroken that they stopped making them last year. They were great fun to use :) I swear, seeing old yellowed polaroid pictures makes me think of childhood.

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  5. So, how much is the film that goes inside it? LOL, I bet that is expensive.
    I remember my dad had one of those polaroids..and I loved the fact that the pics came out instantly..and like magic the photo appeared before your very eyes :)

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  6. I'll send you my address before anyone else gets interested. I hope it's for sale!!!! Nothing like the first technologies... they never break!!
    (LOL)

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  7. LOL oh I remember those...I loved mine :) Instant pics...

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  8. ha, that's old. i've got one too from my dad, where the flash is this round silver things that you have to fan out into a circle? nope, digital's much easier.

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  9. To think that way back when these things used to be the cutting edge. We are like our grandparents having gone from horse and buggy to flights to the moon old man.

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  10. i love polaroids. just something about the grainy already framed look...

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  11. I remember thinking that the flash bars were the coolest things ever. I now understand why there are so few pictures from long ago and how cherished they are.

    I'd never trade my digital now though. ;)

    --snow

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  12. MWM and I used to have so much fun with our Polaroid! ;)

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  13. My Dad loved the latest gizmos- we had one of the first to come out, and it was a lot more than 20 bucks! Made of metal and leather, it was a wonder for it's time...

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  14. Shake it like a polaroid picture G-Daddy!

    xoxoxooxxo
    Angel

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  15. I have a very old Polaroid camera from an Aunt circa 1960. Hard an unopened film, too.

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  16. I got a Kodak instamatic about the same year, with flashcubes.

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  17. flash cubes! wow, i haven't thought about them for a long time!

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  18. wow.. I think that one survived the arc and subsequent flooding.

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  19. And isn't polaroid going to stop making film for those cameras. Now it's truly a relic! :/

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  20. I remember those flash bars. And I remember when Gram bought a Polaroid. She scared us!

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