Show Notes Episode 392: Your Parent’s Old Polaroids

This week Host Dave Bledsoe finds some horrifying Polaroids in a shoebox in his parent’s garage. (They were for his 5th birthday party, my GOD he was a fat little kid!) On the show this week talk about how the Apple of the 1970’s revolutionized photography and changed  how we all took pictures: Polaroid.

Along the way we discover why Dave is the schlubby dresser he is today. (His parents didn’t waste money buying him fashionable clothes, because he was a fat little kid.) Then we dive right into a history of photography that nobody asked for and nobody wants, but is relevant to the topic. Then we move right along to the Polaroid camera and the role it played in pop culture in the 1970’s.  (Very easy to use while very coked up!) We talk about how it changed not only how we took photos, but WHY we took photos. (Even Boomers wanted homemade porn!) Then we see how technology changed everything, from the way art was created to how our Mamaws documented our birthday parties.  Finally, we talk about what happened to Polaroid and why even today and still shake the damn photos even though we never needed to.(Insert Outkast song here.)

Our Sponsor this week is Analog Sanitzers, we find those old photos and videos of you, so your kids won’t have to.  We open the show with James Garner getting smacked down by Mariette Hartley and close with Mixed Up Everything who would like you to take a selfie with them.

Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense

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Citations Needed:

Polaroid: How a square-shaped nostalgia symbol paved the way for social media

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/how-polaroid-changed-photography/index.html

Andy Warhol’s Polaroids of Pop Culture Icons

https://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/10098/andy-warhols-polaroids-of-pop-culture-icons

Polaroid Queen and 80s icon Maripol on capturing NYC’s downtown movement

https://hero-magazine.com/article/181652/maripol-interview-polaroid-new-york-underground-80s-andy-warhol

The 5 Real Reasons Polaroid Failed

https://history-computer.com/the-x-real-reasons-polaroid-failed/

Why Brands fail: How Polaroid lost grip of the market as a industry leader

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-brands-fail-how-polaroid-lost-grip-market-industry-temitope-ajayi

Uncited Additional Reading:  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_H._Land

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaroid_Corporation#:~:text=The%20company%20was%20founded%20in,was%20%243%20billion%20in%201991.\

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/01/09/kodak-to-end-its-instant-camera-line/801f5963-d731-4e19-ad58-12c2f35cb15c/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-polaroid-pioneered-the-instant-photography-revolution

https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts/polaroid-instantly-changed-photography-and-its-legacy-lives-on-1.369318

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/back-to-the-future-what-makes-polaroids-cool/263117/

https://mymodernmet.com/history-of-polaroid/

https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/wj48y4/andy-warhols-polaroids-are-his-most-influential-works

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