{"id":22729,"date":"2022-02-18T01:05:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T05:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=22729"},"modified":"2022-02-17T19:06:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T23:06:36","slug":"a-penny-for-your-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-penny-for-your-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"a penny for your thoughts \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22731\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Coin-operated-3-D-viewer-Popular-Mechanics-April-1941-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22731\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22731\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Coin-operated-3-D-viewer-Popular-Mechanics-April-1941-1-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"128\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">another use for 3D<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Toronto<\/b>. We have all tossed a quarter into those<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>clever \u2018slot\u2019 machines in arcades or other amusement areas to see a series of stills. In this article from the April 1941 issue of Popular Mechanics is a suggestion to use \u00a03D stills and offer the viewer an experience a bit different from the usual.<\/p>\n<p>As a kid a few years later than 1941, I was taken to visit relatives. In the living room was a basket of old stereo views and a Holmes viewer. The scenes, all in 3D, kept me busy as my elders enjoyed their visit. I never did find any coin machines that offered stereo stills while I was still young enough to find them worth a coin or two.<\/p>\n<p>A thank you goes to that erstwhile seeker of photographic history, my good friend George Dunbar for sharing his find with us. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. We have all tossed a quarter into those\u00a0 clever \u2018slot\u2019 machines in arcades or other amusement areas to see a series of stills. In this article from the April 1941 issue of Popular Mechanics is a suggestion to use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-penny-for-your-thoughts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[462,4043,4042,258],"class_list":["post-22729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-3d","tag-arcades","tag-coin-machines","tag-stereo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22733,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22729\/revisions\/22733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}