MEMORY: Early Cameras

[dewline]

Hey, rfmcdonald, didn't you take a pic of a giant mockup of the older camera once?

Comments

[kaffy_r]

Oh my goodness, our household had a Kodak Instamatic - our family's good times were recorded with it!

[dewline]

Apparently, no one's making film or flash cubes for this anymore. Common as dirt on eBay, though.

[kaffy_r]

The flash cubes were wonderfully "futuristic" to me. Other people, largely but not always guys, liked to chew on them for some reason I can't recall.

But flash cubes and that camera got us through Expo 67, and I still have some of the pictures from that visit.

[dewline]

Anyone who went to Expo 67 and has actual memories of that experience has my envy. I was still in diapers at that point, so I'm told. And my parents never made the trip anyway.

[kaffy_r]

The trip to Expo 67 was a major event in my life. My mother, brother and I took the train from Halifax to Toronto, then a bus to Ottawa to stay with my aunt; for at least three days and possibly more, we would get up early every morning and take a bus from Ottawa to Montreal, and spend the day there until about 5 p.m., take the bus back to Ottawa and repeat the next day. I became the person who could find her way around the fair. I still recall that our very first pavilion visit was to Iran's huge, purple, and quite beautiful pavilion.

[cmcmck]

I have a collection of cameras (you might have guessed) so maybe I also ought to share some pics some time.

The little Instamatic is very familiar. :o)

[thewayne]

Both look familiar. I remember the pop-in square flashcubes the one on the left used. I think we owned a model very close to it. I think it used 126 drop-in film cartridges?

[agoodwinsmith]

I still have (somewhere) our family Kodak Instamatic. We also still have an old box brownie, which made the instamatic look so splendid. ;)

[victoriankitsch]

Wow!! An instamatic! :o