Friday, August 5, 2011

Old Photographs

I was at the drugstore and there were a pile of envelopes with photos I had just got processed.  The man behind the counter made a comment about how many there were.  I started looking through them and there was a note attached to one of the envelopes.  It said to be sure to keep food crumbs out of the film because it could scratch the negative.  I looked and the negatives and slides were covered with crumbs of food.  I took a vacuum cleaner with a hose and blew all the crumbs off.  There was one envelope that was all in white.  It was a handmade envelope.  Inside where three black and white photos.  I had never seen any of them before.  One was a young girl sitting in a stroller.  The other was very old and looked like it had been color at one time or maybe was hand colored.  It was me as a child standing in front of a theater.  There were lots of adults around dressed in costumes like it was a Halloween party.  There was a man dressed like a cowboy wearing hairy chaps.  His shirt had been tinted a light pink color.  The other picture was a line drawing of something I did not recognize. I put them back in the envelope and noticed there was also a picture on the envelope.  It was the line drawing.

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