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If you go waaaaay back into the archives, you’ll find a similar shot to this one, as well as several other shots of this same TV screen.

WFMY-TV

Long time readers will remember the 1950′s Home Interior series I posted early on in this blog. This is another shot from that series. It’s the test pattern from WFMY-TV in Greensboro, NC. So far, this is the only concrete clue as to where The UP lived.

It’s the living room again!

All the photos posted this week are from a single strip of 127mm film. They’re all taken in & around The UP’s house.

We’ve seen this room & that TV before early on when I started this blog. I’d have to see all those photos were taken at the same time.

No words

This one is kinda weird.  I’m guessing it’s a shot of the television seen in previous posts.  Can anyone identify the gentlemen on the screen?  I thought it might be Paul Anka, but now I’m not so sure.

Vintage television

Another shoot of the living room TV.  Probably handheld, given  the amount of motion blur.

That TV again

A close up of the WFMY-TV test pattern.  Lots of camera shake, which comes with hand holding a camera at a low shutter speed.

1950′s Home Interior #7/7

Well, it’s been fun but this series has come to an end.  We are left with a rather stained & overexposed shot of the TV again.  The doors are closed this time.  Still can’t find a brand name on it, so I’m sticking with my assumption that it’s a Zenith.

1950′s Home Interior #5/7

The couch again, in daylight.  Still no mirror reflection of the photographer. ):

Isn’t that an odd place to put a candy dish?

1950′s Home Interior #4/7

Here we have the same scene as the first photo in this series, this time in the daylight.  Much better view of the TV.  Would love to know what make it is.  I can’t find any brand name on it though.  Looks a lot like this Zenith here.

The UP’s hometown identified!

Special thanks to my buddy Jeff for discovering this.  If I’d been paying attention like I should have been, I’d have found it out myself.  That’ll learn me to process these negatives too quickly!

A few days ago, I posted the first of the 1950′s Home Interior series.  The centerpiece of this picture was an entertainment center.  I thought it was a phonograph/shortwave radio, but it was in fact an early television set.  Kudos to my wife for figuring that out before I did.  (I’m pretty thick sometimes.)  Anyway, Jeff looked at the large scan of the picture & pointed out this:

If you squint you can see that’s a test pattern for the station WFMY-TV.  That station is in Greensboro, NC, which is only an hour or so from where I bought the negatives.  So, the first piece of the puzzle comes together:  The UP lived in or near Greensboro around the late ’40′s/early ’50′s.  Let’s hope your blogmaster can be a little more attentive & figure some stuff out on his own next time!

Also, from this pic I figured out I’d scanned this strip of negatives backwards.  I’ve corrected this  now, so all previous & future posts in this series turned the right way.

Thanks, Jeff!