I am supposed to be off the blog to get my health in order but couldn’t resist telling you about this fun project. Read More
NEWS FLASH – Photobooth Expedition of Meags Fitzgerald
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A Visitor From London – 27 July 1997
27 July 1997, Luna Park, Melbourne
Rosie, the daughter of my friends Del and Linds of London, came to visit me in Australia just before her 17th birthday.
Adjectives to describe Ros –
- beautiful
- intelligent
- sensitive
- compassionate
- quirky
- funny
- articulate
- exasperating
- loveable
- gorgeous
- messy
- loyal
- messy
- adorable
- messy
With reference to the repeated appearance of the word messy to describe my adopted sister, I was still finding jelly tots in odd places in the room in which Rosie slept, three months after her departure.
This strip is part of the series Photobooth 41 Year Project. You can see all the posts that document the series by clicking here.
On My Way to Torquay – April 1997
Kunis Restaurant – 25 January 1997
25 January 1997, Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
On the way to meet friends at a favourite Japanese restaurant in Melbourne, Kunis.
I was introduced to Japanese food in the early 1980s by a school friend’s much older, extremely sophisticated (in my eyes) boyfriend. At the time there were only two authentic Japanese restaurants in Melbourne. Now there are dozens.
Kunis was the first Japanese restaurant I went to and is Melbourne’s oldest having opened in 1978. It is a special event to go there even now.
This strip is part of the series Photobooth 41 Year Project. You can see all the posts that document the series by clicking here.
Another Anonymous Young Man
These two undated, photomatic photos from the USA, of a young, possibly handsome, possibly weird looking boy, were probably taken in the 1940s. I can’t make up my mind on his Read More
Pretty Lady Full of Joy
My cousin Caroline and her siblings grew up in Canberra, so it wasn’t until Read More
Bronnie II
My Business Starts – August 1996
August 1996, St Kilda, Melbourne
After a one month business course, finding a distributor, writing a 50 page business plan and
weeks and weeks of designing, I finally sent my first lot of 16 designs to a printer. So what did I do on the day my greeting cards arrived? I headed to a photobooth of course!
The Dick Jewell Project
Found Photos by Dick Jewell (Cover)
In 1977, the young British photographer and photobooth artist Dick Jewell self-published a small book Found Photos, a collection of photobooth images that had been thrown Read More
Pennyland, New Jersey – Summer 1938
This blithe young man looks to me to be around 15 to 16 years old. Do you think it is one of the first times he was let off the leash by his parents? The cheeky look on his face in both pictures, but particularly in the pose with the cigarette, suggests, YES! Were these taken to impress a girlfriend, show off to his mates or as an accidental souvenir of his right of passage to adulthood? Whatever the case they were someone’s memento for many decades. Despite being faded, tarnished and stained, the photos radiate youthful joie de vivre some 74 years after they were taken. I can still feel his glee.
From what I have been able to discover, there were many Pennyland centres around the US and Canada offering a large selection of games and coin operated machines to amuse all ages. I think some were stand alone places but more generally they were part of a larger amusement park. The Pennyland where the above photos were taken has long since disappeared, as I can find no reference to it online. Any helpful information from out there would be most welcome!
Entrance to the Pennyland Arcade at the Glen Echo (Maryland) Amusement Park, 1928.
View of the Pennyland Arcade at 131 Royal Street, New Orleans. Date unknown.
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