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Topic: Space Photos of Sunset Boulevard, Houston
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Tykeanaut
Member Posts: 2212
From: Worcestershire, England, UK.
Registered: Apr 2008
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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? |
Space Emblem Art
Member Posts: 194
From: Citrus Heights, CA - USA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 07-25-2010 01:57 PM
Wow, you took me back to high school days 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: 144
From: San Tan Valley, Arizona 85143
Registered: May 2002
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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: 674
From: Bloomington, Illinois, USA
Registered: May 2005
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posted 07-25-2010 02:18 PM
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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: 373
From: Cranston, R.I.
Registered: Nov 1999
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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: 853
From: Danville, Ohio
Registered: Dec 2002
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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: 655
From: Philadelphia, PA USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 07-26-2010 10:09 AM
My memories of Space Photos was ordering mission 8.5 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: 779
From: Chandler, AZ USA
Registered: May 2003
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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. |
mmcmurrey
Member Posts: 114
From: Austin, TX, USA
Registered: Jun 2012
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posted 04-23-2015 10:14 AM
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Originally posted by Tykeanaut:
I don't think they still exist do they?
I don't know if they are still in business or not but I have two 11x14" Apollo 11 crew pictures with their "Published and Distributed by SPACE PHOTOS/2608 Sunset Blvd, Houston, Texas" in lower right corner. |
SpaceCadet1983
Member Posts: 227
From: United States
Registered: May 2012
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posted 04-23-2015 12:40 PM
I collected 35mm slides and an Ed White spacewalk lithograph from Space Photos as a young teen. The place was a virtual goldmine back in the 1960s-70s. They always seemed to have the choicest slides. The difficulty for me was trying to narrow down the sets I wanted! (I wanted them all!) I've always wondered what happened to them. |
J.L
Member Posts: 674
From: Bloomington, Illinois, USA
Registered: May 2005
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posted 04-23-2015 01:24 PM
They have been out of business for many years. Someone in the family contacted me a few years back offering to sell the remaining inventory. Not sure what ever happened to it. I too bought their slides back in the day. As a veteran NASA image archivist I eventually realized that the quality of their product was spotty at best. The Space Shuttle era slides are especially poor quality. The company did fill a need for quite awhile though. Funny, I guess I am doing something similar with my Retro Space Image discs. Big difference is much better quality and considerably more images being offered. |
OLDIE
Member Posts: 267
From: Portsmouth, England
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 04-24-2015 03:24 AM
The brother of one of my friends (who worked in the space industry) brought me back a few Gemini slides from Space Photos in the early 1970s. I thank them for getting me started on the whole space adventure. |
mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 719
From: Albany, Oregon
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 04-24-2015 10:20 AM
I bought a bunch of stuff from that company in the 70s and early 80s. Slides, 8mm movies, Beta tapes, photos, almost everything in their catalog at one time or another. (I had their address memorized.)I still have a lot of the items with the exception of the old 8mm movies. Apollo, Skylab, Shuttle. They went for big prices on eBay, which surprised me. The Beta and VHS tapes were from Finley-Holiday Films and the 8mm movies were from Movie Newsreels. I think by the mid-90s, Space Photos was pretty much done. |
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