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Hawaii Slides

Posted on May 26, 2008 by Swanky

A little NSFW image for you. Ukukeles, leis…

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Vintage Hawaii Slides

Posted on May 8, 2008 by Swanky

    

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Vintage Hawaii Slides

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Swanky

A few more of the commercial slides. You can see a big difference in color in some of these as they had become very red with age. Photoshop corrected them Read More …

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Vintage Hawaii Slides

Posted on May 5, 2008 by Swanky

Okay, a few more. These are from a batch of commercial slides for the tourists.

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Vintage Hawaii Slides

Posted on May 3, 2008February 17, 2018 by Swanky

Thought I’d share some of my vintage slides. Been a while.

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Vintage Photos

Posted on April 15, 2007 by Swanky

Here are a couple of other pictures of my parents I came upon lately. First this picture of my Dad, who appears to have a cast on his arm, in Read More …

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