Lost Gallery: October 2015

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Sepia Saturday - Halloween

For this Sepia Saturday Suggestion lets look at some Halloween Snapshots that have accumulated over the years.

Oddly, although this is a popular subject for amateur photographers, there are very few Halloween themed snapshots in LOST GALLERY.

Let's start with one set of nine photographs, all Polaroid shots that apparently were from a Halloween party at a restaurant.

So today for Sepia Saturday, lets look at all the photographs in LOST GALLERY associated with Halloween!

A little research found that these party pictures were taken in a fast service restaurant called Taco Tico, an idea started by brothers Dan and Robin Foley. The first Taco Tico restaurant opened in 1962 in Wichita, Kansas. Sources vary but the idea apparently grew to several hundred locations, company units and franchises across Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas in just a few short years. The Foley brothers sold the entire company in 1988. It is an interesting sidelight that the first Pizza Hut restaurant had opened just four years earlier, in the same city, Wichita, Kansas.

Halloween at the Roller Rink!

There are lots of photographs of people in costume in LOST GALLERY, but only these few seemed Halloween related.

Here's a big Halloween scene. It's about 60 children in Halloween costumes, ready for the Trick or Treat circuit of their neighborhoods.

Now, materialize back at the Sepia Saturday home page, and see what other spooky Halloween contributions you can find.

Bassingbourn 1944
Long lost negatives taken during the winter of 1944-45 at Bassingbourn AAF base in England.

Area 51 and a Half You are probably not authorized to see these.

Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you! This is a collection of photographs that disappear on the way home from the photo processing shop.

And don't miss
Cabinet Card Gallery
Square America
Tattered and Lost
Vernacular Photography
The best
FOUND PHOTOGRAPH
sites on the web.

And for postcards try
POSTCARDY
And see what's going on over at
Sepia Saturday!

THE KIDS
It is always a mystery how a photograph of any of these precious children could end up lost or abandoned. Here are a few. You will probably say "Ooh..." at least once.

Dee and the Business School
The beautiful Dee. A curious story; What do you see?

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
Neiffel and Helvetica Typehigh
"What are they doing?"

Friday, October 30, 2015

A Child's Day - Page 04

Possibly the most popular subject of the amateur photographer is children.
In the past, LOST GALLERY has collected photographs of children on pages called:
The Studio Portraits
The Kid in the Tub
The Goat Cart
Cowboy Suits
Child on the Front steps
Boys in Dresses
Three Children
Vintage Child Holding a Chicken
Girls and their Dolls
Baby on (Running) Board
A Child's Day - Page 01
A Child's Day - Page 02
A Child's Day - Page 03
A Child's Day - Page 04 (This One)

This collection will be mostly of amateur snapshots of children; basically a child or two standing out in the yard, or just busy playing. There's a pro shot here and there.

Remember, as always, you can click on any photograph and go to the Flickr site. Click on it again there and get the largest size available.

Three of the most popular baby poses: the hospital identification shot, the christening gown and the old bare butt shot.

These three are probably professionally shot.

Here's that List Again:
The Studio Portraits
The Kid in the Tub
The Goat Cart
Cowboy Suits
Child on the Front steps
Boys in Dresses
Three Children
Vintage Child Holding a Chicken
Girls and their Dolls
Baby on (Running) Board
A Child's Day - Page 01
A Child's Day - Page 02
A Child's Day - Page 03
A Child's Day - Page 04 (This One)