[rollei_list] Re: OT: Antiques ...Glass Plates

  • From: David Sadowski <dsadowski@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:56:34 -0500

Lantern slides (and their projectors) were used for a long time in
Masonic lodges.  There are some pictures that were used as part of the
catechism.  Some of these lodges did not change with the times.  They
had what they had, used it, and their members got older and older.

This discussion reminded me of something.  Back in the mid-80s, when I
worked in the photo industry, I had to deliver some supplies to a
place called the Chicago Stereopticon company.

They apparently had been in business for many decades, but I trust
they were doing different things than they had at the turn of the
century.  They were located near Union Staion, and I wonder if they
are still in business.  (It's doubtful.)

In the early 1960s, the first time I had to have my eyes examined for
glasses, the local optometrist had a box of stereo postcards and a
viewer at hand to keep the kids busy while waiting.  Time was you
could walk into practically any used bookshop and they had tons of the
stuff.

My, how times have changed.
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