MLB 2022: The Long and Winding Thread

It would be worth figuring out. That’s an entire summer series in waiting. You could get away for an actual vacation!

 

There are apps and smartphone friendly plug-in devices that have made scanning negatives and slides easy-peasy.

 

Sounds like the Denver Broncos all over again:

 

It's like when Mrs. Pynchon's greedy nephews tried to yoink The Tribune away and use it to bankroll taco trucks.

 

Slide scanner: Amazon.com : Slide & Negative Scanners

 

The nephews were right. A fleet of taco trucks purchased back then would've offered about 100 times the ROI on a newspaper.

 

Just go ahead and begin your home run trots that one is a no doubter splash hit

 

Considering I've been here 25 years already, nobody in the industry is beating down my door with a plum job offer, and I'm only in my mid-40s, I'm not too worried yet about my successor. My paper will probably go out of business before I voluntarily leave.

But I would like to get some sort of negative scanner, even if I have to buy one myself. Those slides from the 50s are just the tip of the iceberg. We have three or four large drawers of the same filing cabinet, as well as a 2-foot high by 15-foot long wall of binders filled with negatives in the basement of the office. Same deal, where we can't throw them away because it's 20 years of irreplaceable photos, yet they take up so much space and are so rarely needed that it's sometimes hard to justify keeping them around.
Of course, digitizing them all might take months.

 

Old photos, slides, negatives?

 

The local historian in me would never let me do that.