Lucky find
 

A friend of mine was clearing out his garage and put his hand into the eaves. He found a Kodak 6x4 yellow box that contained a collection of glamour shots. Sadly some of these had got some water damage, but we rescued most of them. They seem to date from the 40's and 50's - I recognise the style of decor and furniture from my childhood.

I have just put one up (hopfully to see if I can actually get it right! If this works I will try to get the rest up (there are over 70 of them) as soon as possible. They need re-touching to get rid of the damage - feel free to have a go.

Enjoy this young lady - she is my favourite. I often wonder who she is and if she is still alive.

OK - that seemed to work. The next question is - do I put them up one at a time, or zip them all up, or do both?

Very interesting post allot of history to ponder and beauty to take in thanks for sharing

A few more to keep you going now that I have got the hang of this!

Fantastic. Thanks. A zip would be wonderful.......

I will sort out a zip - bit busy this week, but it's on the list!

Next half dozen....

would be very nice if you put it in a zip file

I will - it's just a case of doing it! I shall continue to post the pictures so that others have something to look at.
The picures are scans at a reasonable resolution. I have both JPG (which are posted here) and BMP which obviously have no compression applied - which format would members prefer?

Just to keep you going

Great Stuff
 

Wow,
I'm not usually crazy about "vintage" stuff because the quality is usually low. But these are GREAT!

BTW, do you have any more of this girl?
https://forum.oneclickchicks.com/atta...0&d=1276507016

She's a "look alike" of a friend and I'd love to have all you can find of her!

Also, feel free to post the damaged ones and if/when I have time, I'll restore them and repost them here.

It might be easiest to post the ones needing work all in a zip, but either way is cool.

Thanks for the CONSIDERABLE work you're putting into this!!

DD

shaved
 

yes first thing i noticed was they are shaved

They were clean shaven as it was easier to touch out the 'naughty bits' - this was later done with an air brush - it was a requirement of the time. Some more to keep you going. No, I have not forgotten the ZIP - it's on its way but I have a living to earn!

Here's a zip of everything so far. These are the jpg's as no-one said what they preferred.

JPEGS are preferred
 

Yes,

JPEGs are vastly preferred in that a properly compressed JPEG is going to retain 99% of the original quality (particularly with B&W) at a fraction of the size. I'm not even certain that OCC supports BMP, but it's a moot point.

The biggest issue with B&W is that any fixes must match the luminance perfectly or the eye will see it, particularly on a decent monitor with rich black levels. For those with Photoshop, a combination of the Healing Brush and Clone Brush is used.

I totally understand about having to "earn a living" and time. I've misspent so many nights on this site when I had family obligations to attend to!
But if you get the chance to post a zip of the damaged ones, either I or one of the other many regulars here will likely be able & willing to spend some time fixing them. I personally love posting the "Before & After" versions so that everyone can see the improvement.

Your jpegs have been good quality so far. Obviously, the bigger, the better. You can always reduce the size or dpi later.

DD

I shall put up some more later - got a major programming problem to sort out right now - so why am I here?????

thanks for sharing! :)

To keep you on your toes......

DiskoDaddy- as these are English ladies, she may be one of two well known models. She could be Pamela Green or June Palmer. The former is still making a living from selling copies of her pictures, though she is an old lady now. You could Google these names and see what comes up.

I have just discovered that Pamela Green died one month ago from leukaemia at the age of 81. Suprisingly, this was not mentioned in the local paper (she lived a couple of miles away from me). However, the lady that you want is neither Pamela Green nor June Palmer - still worth Googling though.

A few spare moments so I thought I would put some more up!

Continued.....

Next zip - continiues from last zip up to the last image above.

Today's pictures...

Thanks for the Jpeg zips. Thanks for scanning them at such a great size....not too small. Nice thread.

Holy Gravity Defying Goodness!

These are amazing pictures. I was shocked (and pleased) to see them shaved too. Thanks for all of your efforts to get these posted here. :)

As I said above, shaved was the rule of the day. It was illegal (in the UK) to show any part of the female genitalia, so they had to be touched out or, later, airbrushed. There are a few more to put up and on one or two you can see that an 'accident' has occurred and the re-touching has been missed.

These were typical of the photos around in the 1950's and it came as a shock to many a young lad to find out that girls had hair as well!!

It was not until the early 60's that pubic hair was allowed to be shown, and it sort of slowly crept in. Now, of course, the pendulum has swung back!

Nearly there..
If you look in the hub cap of photo66, you can see the photographer's relection, complete with tripod and camera!

This is all of the. I will post a zip file with the ones that are not included in the previous files, and another one with all of them in - just give me time! The last one will be a challenge for the Photoshop artists out there!

Zip file to add to the two previous ones

This is the big one........

Thank you for your patience while I have uploaded these. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did - thank for the positive comments.

There are NO MORE!!! - believe me, when these were found, my friend almost demolished the garage looking for more - there were none!

Enjoy, with my compliments.

this lady is quite entertaining:
https://forum.oneclickchicks.com/atta...3&d=1276641713

despite her clean shave, she left the treasure trail intact. she must have had an impressive bush!

wow these are nice !! never knew so many ladies shaved back then

Some great photos there....! What a find. Great thread, thanks for sharing.

I too was quite surprised to see all of the shaving, or lack of muff. Im not a huge hair lover anyways so, even better for my taste but... damn... a few of those pics are just smokin. Love the vintage pics, especially in as high a quality as they are.

We seek to please...
Have a look at post 27 - I have given some background there to the clean-shaven look.

Restoration from the zip
 

I looked through the last, biggest zip file and this one seemed the most screwed up so I did what I could with a few minutes spent on it. Tedious stuff and it's still not perfect, but .... better!

DD

Greatsetman!.. great find!... thanks for sharing

DiskoDaddy - that is amazing. I take my hat off to you (if I was wearing one). At least retouching in Photoshop becomes more interesting with some good material to work on!

I am really pleased that so many have found these interesting!

gawd, takes back, I even remember some of the faces and bodies :rolleyes::D

Can you put a name to any of them (especially the first one)?