Just After the Forest Fire

I discovered this in a box of old photos at Atlas Audio Repair. Loved the bleary quality. My heart stopped when I read the caption on the back. Evocative. Wonder how I would’ve felt if it instead read, “Just before the forest fire.”

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Found near road in the bottom of the ditch in the spring, must have been under the snow all winter.

Big

Found this by the bike rack at the gym.

Working?

Found on Thomas Street…

1979 POLAROID

I found this picture in the shed of a place I just moved into.

Fashion Adventure

The bag. The sunglasses. The bandanna. The Man.

Nursing Rudolph

This image was found when I picked up a book at a used book store.

That Hair

I found this Polaroid face down in the trunk of a car at the junk yard while looking for some parts. When I turned it over, all I could think was LOOK AT THAT HAIR! I graduated in 1984 and it appears that they went to the prom four years later and I wondered how … Continued

Happy Days

There’s a homeless man who lives on a street corner that I pass by every day on my way to school. One day he was gone, and in his place an open bag with things spilling out, this Polaroid blowing away.

Drinking and Playing Cards

I found this old Polaroid in a coal miner’s house in the Bull’s Head section of Scranton. I’m not old enough to date the photo, but I’d guess 1950′s. There were other pictures with it, but this is the one I kept.