Early Athens Christmas

 

Wow! Did we ever look like this? I figure this to be around 1969 or 1970. (The tree is to the left of the picture where the TV usually is, instead of the usual spot which would be to the right and in front of where David is.)

This picture was taken with Mark's old Polaroid camera. That camera was magic, wasn't it? Take the picture, pull it through the rollers, time 60 seconds with your watch (or was it more?), peel off the filmy cover to the picture, shake it a bit to air it out, pull off the cover to the adhesive of the separate cardboard back, and affix the backing to the picture. It was amazing.

Mark won that camera as some sort of prize connected to his newspaper delivery job, as I recall.

I guess Tom probably took the picture.

As an aside, has any company been more hurt by digital photography than Polaroid?

Update: Looking again at the picture, it appears that only one person is happy to be there!