Alan Mays' photos

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of lollypop, lollypop -- featuring a lollypop, candy cane, or other confection . This is a 1959 snapshot of a dandy young fellow who is dressed in a suit and holding an Easter bunny toy. The table next to him is covered with Easter baskets and a variety of candy confections. There's even more candy on top of the console radio that's on the other side of the table. See also a close-up of the candy .

A table and console radio covered in all sorts of Easter candy. See also the original photo .

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of Easter . The handwritten note on the other side of this photo says, "Boardwalk, Easter Sunday. From window of Rm. 515 Traymore ." In this undated photo taken from a hotel window, we see a parade of rolling chairs and pedestrians celebrating Easter as they travel along the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey. For a better view of the crowd on the Boardwalk, see a cropped version of this photo.

An Easter Sunday crowd of rolling chairs and pedestrians on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey. For more information, see the full version of this photo.

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of that's awesome! Handwritten on the back of this photo: "Stone Henge." Printed on the back: "Print made by Kodak, Oct. 79." A snapshot of the iconic and awe-inspiring Stonehenge monument in Wiltshire, England. For a closer view, see the cropped version of the photo.

The Stonehenge monument in Wiltshire, England. See also the full version of the photo.

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of on the road again . Travelers along the Lincoln Highway in the Appalachian Mountains of southern Pennsylvania stopped at Doc Seylar's Tea Room near McConnellsburg. There they could get a bite to eat and go up on the roof for a view that included the Tuscarora Inn, located just down the road, and the Cove Mountain Tea Room, barely visible farther down the mountain. Once they were ready to get back on the road again, motorists who departed from Seylar's Tea Room faced a descent of 1500 feet. For a better view of the automobiles, see a cropped version of this photo. Captions: Lincoln Hy. from Seyl[a]r's Tea Room. Tuscarora Summit. Cove Mts. McConnellsburg, Pa. Elv. 2123 ft. Lincoln Hy. De[s]cend 1500 ft. Tuscarora Inn Cove Mt. Tea Room. Sign among the cars at lower left: Dangerous Hill

See also the full version of this real photo postcard.

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of socks - striped, Argyll, tights, fishnets, men's/women's garters, etc. "Help Wanted. W-22." A real photo postcard of a woman with a parasol. The woman's dress and stockings are hand tinted with blue stripes, and her hat is yellow. Printed on the other side: "This is a Genuine Photograph, Hand Colored. Made in the United States." Addressed on the verso to Miss Laura Mengel, Hamburg, Pa., and postmarked in Reading, Pa., on October 10, 1917. Handwritten message: "From your girl friend Verna. Ain't she cute on the other side?"

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of funny face . A wide-eyed kid with a gleeful grin poses for a photo with his schoolmates in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. In contrast, another one of his schoolmates -- Smirking Schoolkid -- didn't seem happy about having his photo taken. For the full photo of forty-eight children and a teacher, see Schoolchildren Posing Outside a School, Lebanon, Pa.

A smirking kid with crossed arms doesn't seem too enthusiastic about posing for a picture. One of his schoolmates -- Grinning Schoolkid -- had a different reaction. For the full photo of forty-eight children and a teacher, see Schoolchildren Posing Outside a School, Lebanon, Pa.

Forty-eight schoolchildren and a teacher pose for a photo outside a school. The photographer's name and location -- "Wolfe, Lebanon, Pa." -- is embossed on the border of the photo, but there's nothing else that identifies the school. Grinning Schoolkid is third from left in the first row and Smirking Schoolkid is second from right, also in the first row. See also close-up views of the left-hand side and the right-hand side of the photo.

See also a close-up view of the right-hand side of the photo. For the full photo, see Schoolchildren Posing Outside a School, Lebanon, Pa.

See also a close-up view of the left-hand side of the photo. For the full photo, see Schoolchildren Posing Outside a School, Lebanon, Pa.

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of wallpaper . "Room mate" is handwritten along the right-hand side of this photo of two young men. They're pretending to study as they sit at their desks, which are covered with twenty or more books. One is writing with a pencil, and the other is reading a book. Someone has added dots to the eyes of the student on the left. Behind the two roommates, we can see wallpaper, a calendar (the year isn't visible, but the month is December), a mirror (with a reflection of another calendar on a different wall), photos displayed on a shelf and on the wall, an alarm clock among the photos on the shelf, curtains, and an overhead light. This is an unmailed real photo postcard with a type of Azo stamp box (four corner triangles with two pointing up and two pointing down) on the other side that suggests a date that may be as early as 1917 to 1930. "Mother" is written on the verso, but otherwise there's no message, address, postmark, or other clues to the location or date. Comparing the December dates with the days of the week on the wall calendar (December 3, for instance, falls on a Sunday) suggests that the year could be 1916 or 1922.

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of shape up! - people exercising . "Water Sports, Camp Red Wing, Silver Lake, Pa., 1922." A real photo postcard captures a scene of swimmers preparing to enter the water at Silver Lake as part of the activities in 1922 at Camp Red Wing, a summer camp that was located near Brackney, Pennsylvania.

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of making mischief -- the photographer or the subject being mischievous . Message (punctuation added): "Hello, how are you getting along? You can easy see mischief on this. J.C.A." In this photo, the mischief that is easy to see is the result of one woman holding a clump of snow as if she's going to push it into another woman's face. The second woman is grabbing the first woman's arm to prevent her from moving the snow any closer. This is a real photo postcard with an undivided back. It's addressed on the other side to Mrs. T. A. Camer, Jamison City, Pa., R.F.D. The stamp bears a cancellation but there's no postmark with a visible date or location. A penciled notation -- probably added by a postcard dealer -- indicates a date of 3/28/06, though I'm not sure where that came from.

A Vintage Photos Theme Park photo for the theme of music lover . This is a divided-back real photo postcard of wedding participants and guests with the bride and groom seated in the center. Music evidently played an important part in the wedding celebration. A gramophone is displayed prominently at front left, and two musicians -- a man in uniform with a mandolin and another man with a guitar -- are lying on the ground in front of the group. Other interesting details include a fellow holding up a bottle and a mug (upper left) and a barefooted man with a dog on his lap (lower right). There's no date or location, and the only clue to the photo's origin is an ink-stamped credit to "Foto - N. Aboltin" on other side.