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Sundae · 06-09-2013, 12:56 PM

Top pics: Dad's school photos.

Below, him in a new suit, walking along the prom in Great Yarmouth. Aged 13-16, hard to tell because of the way fashion has changed these days.
I can't imagine a teenager on holiday with his parents in an English seaside town dressed up in a suit these days.

The numbers at the bottom show the photo was taken by a professional photographer.
They snapped you in tourist locations, gave you a card with the number on and you went back to check the photos in the photographer's window the next day.
You could buy them as they were, or enlarged, or even if a special presentation pack.
This still applied when I was on holiday in Yarmouth 20+ years later, and especially at holiday camps. In fact I was caught out by a photographer at a B&B in Blackpool when I was only recently separated from my husband.

Seems a world away now.
But not everyone had a camera, or could afford the film/ development costs for something that might end up with someone out of frame/ focus.

06-09-2013, 12:56 PM	#83
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Top pics: Dad's school photos. Below, him in a new suit, walking along the prom in Great Yarmouth. Aged 13-16, hard to tell because of the way fashion has changed these days. I can't imagine a teenager on holiday with his parents in an English seaside town dressed up in a suit these days. The numbers at the bottom show the photo was taken by a professional photographer. They snapped you in tourist locations, gave you a card with the number on and you went back to check the photos in the photographer's window the next day. You could buy them as they were, or enlarged, or even if a special presentation pack. This still applied when I was on holiday in Yarmouth 20+ years later, and especially at holiday camps. In fact I was caught out by a photographer at a B&B in Blackpool when I was only recently separated from my husband. Seems a world away now. But not everyone had a camera, or could afford the film/ development costs for something that might end up with someone out of frame/ focus. Attached Images __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac Last edited by Sundae; 06-09-2013 at 01:04 PM.