Me dino was quite young when I read Dracula. Don't recall the Kodak but I was impressed by how well it was written. I was already weaned on classic horror movies.

Well, I did grow up about as segregationist Deep South as you can get in one half hour to the Florida line in Dothan, Alabama.
It was approximately 1970 when I shared a canteen with a black Marine and imagined people in Dothan pointing and screaming at me.
Just because you were raised to be a racist doesn't mean you had to turn out that way.

What you just described has a far, far away been there done that "feel" to it.

Ours started out white, but the blood staining after a few years. Eventually, the girls were not REQUIRED to play. We had a fella, Todd Cathers who could catch anything you threw at him, and he had a throw that could rattle the wall, he hit a girl in the chest so hard, she flipped backwards and landed on her stomach.
He caught my leg once, and it swept my feet out from under me!

There is NO CHANCE this would be allowed today, and quite frankly, ZERO Chance I would let my daughter play...

I recently started reading a classic book and discovered just how old Kodak cameras were.

"It looks like part of a keep, and is close to an old chapel or church. I could not enter it, as I had not the key of the door leading to it from the house, but I have taken with my kodak views of it from various points."
[emphasis added]

Jonathan Harker’s Journal
Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1897

Polaroid made the cameras for which you peeled off the back of the film (and coated the black and white pictures.) Kodak did not have a peel-off version. After Polaroid invented their color instant camera with its chemistry fully contained in the permanent picture, Kodak developed a version. Others within this thread have commented on details.

I had one of the Kodak instant cameras. I made a side-by-side comparison at a camera show with the Polaroid version, I thought the Kodak version produced more appealing color pictures.
After the lawsuit was settled, Kodak offered some money for turning in some specific part from the camera. So, I got some money back.

Welcome, you came to a safe place to discuss anything.

However, you cannot share our secret plans . . .

(Laughing)

and if I remember correctly, they were BLACK and White . . . sounds inclusive to me

I know Fed employees who were forced to reapply for their jobs...these people should have to do no less.

Sink it and your free!

LOL, I recall our dodge balls were white, too. Oh wait, those were volley balls used as dodge balls.

Yes! Yes! Yes!

LMAO. Although the hemlock tree (Canadian Hemlock?) is not the same as the deadly hemlock flowering plant that looks a bit like Queen Ann's Lace. I had a Canadian Hemlock tree in my yard for a long time. Soft needles and "citrusy" smell. Unfortunately it was 15 feet from my house and started to lean at about 100 feet high - had to go. My favorite smoking woods are hickory and mesquite.

Meanwhile, there are people like me...
OMG, everyone is sick from the smoked meat.
I know the meat was good.
Friend: "What wood did you smoke it with?"
Me: "Some Hemlock tree we cut down, because those are dangerous!"

LOL

Look, I argue with my more libertarian friends who say there should not be limits on what SNAP can buy, because that's the government picking winners and losers.

I explained. Giving SNAP benefits is PAYING losers from winners. The picking was already done.

But NO, Coca-Cola, etc. Are out in my book.
When you re-apply, you need to link with your doctor and your phone to your SCALE. Sorry, you are overweight. No Junk Food for you. Sardines, Tuna, eggs and ground beef!

LOL. Could you imagine the heads popping!

But MANY of those cards were "sold" for drugs and other things to other people. (The guy who is collecting in 6 states... He likely sold his cards for stuff).

Anyways, I love the idea. Make them re-apply.
And, I would add. Every 18 months, apply again.

And maybe we REVIEW what you purchased with OUR MONEY.

Don't you know that MLK's family just cringes every time she opens her mouth?

Lobsters in the tank on the Titanic? That is how I feel about the NYC Mayor!

The Peter Principle Supercharged by AI!
Does AI understand this and is it a planned effect?

"Let the stupidity work itself out of the gene pool." I never considered it was self-cleaning...I love this idea. Great set, as usual, OUC.

I was working for Kodak in Rochester, NY when all this went down. I worked with process systems that made parts for the cameras and chemicals for the film. The coolest feature was the pictures were self developing before your eyes. You could watch the image come to clarity over a few minutes. Once in a while I see one of these cameras show up in an antique shop or second hand store. I would say unopened film packs are extremely rare by now.

White dodge balls! How racist can you get!

If that is what white privilege is, then I’m happy to be white.
Another great bunch … thanks!

Excellent post, FFA! We do need to marvel at the luxuries we have all around us - and remember the price in human life and effort that brought us here.

Thanks for all the comments. The best thing Trump has done is systematically roll back much of the climate regulation. I mean hundreds of different ones. I was so impressed I wanted to document both the extent and the systematic nature of it, which I did in a rather long two-part article for Savvy Street. I think that I posted it, but if not: https://www.thesavvystreet.com/trumps... The MSM portray him as chaotically damaging the climate effort, hip-shooting, but in his first days of the second term he took some 145 actions to rollback what Biden had done. All the momentum now is in the states and cities, unfortunately.