An archive of the Travel Tip of the Week website
Eric found a carousel of holiday slides from 1981 at Goodwill. It is always fascinating to see what changes and what stays the same. Often it is only the clothing that would give away the date of the photo.
Arriving at Centraal Station.
Always a familiar sight
Ravensbrück Memorial, Museumplein.
Despite traversing the Museumplein surely hundreds of times I’m embarrassed to say I never noticed this monument.
A Willy Blees sculpture.
Fishing? I know there are fish in the canals, but…
Timeless
This slide certainly falls in the “some things never change” category! Our heroine seems to be doing a pretty good job of “holding up” the tower in an era before instant digital photography.
Stay tuned for a 21st century look at the same pose.
In our continuing series of vintage slides here’s a charming slide from Holland. We believe these slides came from an officer in the American Military stationed in Germany in the 50s.
Here’s a typical picture of tourists devouring the raw “nieuwe” haring. Most Dutch people eat it with a knife and fork.
The photographer wrote that this slide was taken in Marken, an historic and touristic village just north of Amsterdam.
As promised in the entry earlier today, here’s a picture of Notre Dame all cleaned up. This was taken by Clay Doyle in 2005 during Paris’s bid for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Note the bit of scaffolding in exactly the same location as 1954.
Île de la Cité, Notre Dame de Paris, 2005.
Some things never change and other things change quite a bit!
We’ve found a cache of vintage slides at the Cayucos Antique & Collectibles Street Fair. We plan to bring you some scans of these vivid slides in the months to come.
To start here’s a picture of Notre Dame. Scaffolding: that’s something that belongs in the things never change category.
However, what are all those cute cars doing parked right in front? … and wow, the whole cathedral needs a good scrubbing! (Stay tuned for a “scrubbed up” version.)
Île de la Cité, Notre Dame de Paris, 1954.
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