|
Author
|
Topic: Space Photos of Sunset Boulevard, Houston
|
Tykeanaut
Member Posts: 1523
From: Worcestershire, England, UK.
Registered: Apr 2008
|
posted 07-25-2010 12:50 PM
   
Anyone else remember Space Photos of Sunset Boulevard, Houston? I used to buy off them quite often in the seventies. Long gone now I suppose? |
GTspace
Member Posts: 176
From:
Registered: Dec 2000
|
posted 07-25-2010 01:07 PM
You just took me back 30+ years to my high school days. I remember it well and I too bought whatever I could with what little money I earned doing odd jobs after school. |
Space Emblem Art
Member Posts: 159
From: Citrus Heights, CA - USA
Registered: Jan 2006
|
posted 07-25-2010 01:57 PM
Wow, you took me back to high school days also when I was buying photos and slides from them (early '70s). I still have them after all these years. Ah, the pre-internet days. |
Orthon
Member Posts: 109
From: Gilbert, Arizona 85296
Registered: May 2002
|
posted 07-25-2010 02:00 PM
I have many of their slide sets. How about the company called Movie Newsreels? I have super 8mm Apollo flight films from them. They are gone now too. I suppose they have no value today. |
J.L
Member Posts: 364
From: Bloomington, Illinois, USA
Registered: May 2005
|
posted 07-25-2010 02:18 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Tykeanaut:
I used to buy off them quite often in the seventies.
I too bought all of their sets back in 1970's. Quality began to get rather poor sometime around STS-5 or STS-6. I used to question them about it and they would always tell me it was JSC's fault. I think they were just doing a lousy job of duplicating.They are long gone. A member of the owner's family called me one time and offered up the remaining inventory. I think this was sometime in the early 1990's. |
Dan Lorraine
Member Posts: 357
From: Cranston, R.I.
Registered: Nov 1999
|
posted 07-25-2010 02:27 PM
I was a big fan of "Movie Newsreals"... I can remember waiting after each Apollo mission for the films to be released. I bought them all as a kid and recently (within the past five years) sold them on this board for not much money. I just wanted to get them to someone that had an interest and could do something with them or appreciate and enjoy them. |
space1
Member Posts: 491
From: Danville, Ohio, USA
Registered: Dec 2002
|
posted 07-25-2010 02:37 PM
I too bought many slide sets from Space Photos. I frequently used them for slide presentations to classes. I still have them all. |
Cliff Lentz
Member Posts: 631
From: Philadelphia, PA USA
Registered: Mar 2002
|
posted 07-26-2010 10:09 AM
My memories of Space Photos was ordering mission 8 1/2 x 11 lithos of the moon landings. I believe they were about $5.00 for 12 lithos in each set. Over the years I managed to get a lot of them signed. I ordered them all the way up to the Early Shuttle flights. I remember the brochures they would send that showed the slides available. Before the internet, it was probably the only way to see a lot of the photos not released by the media. It was just a great service. |
randyc
Member Posts: 595
From: Highlands Ranch, CO USA
Registered: May 2003
|
posted 07-26-2010 12:07 PM
I still have the slides and lithos that I bought from Space Photos in 1968 and 1969 and the Super 8mm films from Movie Newsreels that I bought from 1968-1972. I even have all the Gemini and Apollo slide brochures from Space Photos.The brochures were a great way to see photos that the public usually didn't see. And the films from Movie Newsreels contained more footage than similar films from the 'commercial' companies like Castle. |
advertisement