Free the Lobsters!!!

George Eastman created his first camera in 1888. He made roll film before that. Eastman Kodak was formed in 1892 so it looks like Bram Stoker was in on it early. I have yet to read the original "Dracula" and it's now on my list. I was working there for the 100 year anniversary and still have the commemorative pewter plate. The company was huge. Today it's just a shadow of what it was.

IIR Black and white were soccer balls and we didn't have those until high school.

Probably not.

That racist won't believe me.

How do we get that to work? Anyone with any ideas? Can we get the lawyers to let us try it??

Now that is funny -

Yeah - I used to take pictures of stuff that I wanted to be able to look back on and enjoy. Did not ever try to get a candid shot, just wanted to remind myself that at "that" particular point in my life I was able to enjoy being wherever I was at the time. I have snaps from my '72 trip to Italy, a place that I thought that I would never get to go to - went with the Latin Club I joined when I was taking Latin in HS. Those picks mean more to me, and bring back more memories, than the digital pics I have from Italy in 2016. Funny what brings back good memories, and what is just kinda - yeah, that was fun...

Absolutely! You need to tell Jasmine Crockett that.

¿Lo sabe? me gusta la palabra no-binario porque estoy binario. No estoy binaria.

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.

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

Sink it and your free!

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

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

"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!