{"id":31489,"date":"2025-05-17T01:03:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T05:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31489"},"modified":"2025-05-17T12:58:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T16:58:19","slug":"not-so-long-ago-and-not-so-far-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/not-so-long-ago-and-not-so-far-away\/","title":{"rendered":"not so long ago and not so far away &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31490\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/May-1977-Fair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31490\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31490\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/May-1977-Fair-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">May 14, 1977 PHSC fair at the War Amps building on Wellesley<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. The first PHSC fair I attended was the 3rd annual fair held May 14, 1977 at the War Amps building, 85 Wellesley St West in Toronto. As fairs were held on weekends, I was unable to attend the two earlier ones.<\/p>\n<p>While I can&#8217;t recall today exactly what I picked up back then, I did take a few snaps of the fascinating show using tri-x in a Leica.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s fair will be at the Trident Hall on Evans Ave at Islington in the west end on <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/spring-fair-time\/\">May 25th<\/a>. Lots of free parking, tasty refreshments, inexpensive admission, and loads of tables full of photographica &#8211; cameras, lenses, accessories, books, etc., etc. This will be our 51st consecutive year!<\/p>\n<p>NB. The title here is a riff on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iXDnFYu91vY\">rolling crawl<\/a> introducing the first Star Wars movie in &#8230;. 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. The first PHSC fair I attended was the 3rd annual fair held May 14, 1977 at the War Amps building, 85 Wellesley St West in Toronto. As fairs were held on weekends, I was unable to attend the two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/not-so-long-ago-and-not-so-far-away\/\">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":[39],"tags":[500,35,34,286,105,1021,14,279,348],"class_list":["post-31489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fair","tag-accessories","tag-books","tag-cameras","tag-darkroom","tag-digital","tag-ephemera","tag-film","tag-lenses","tag-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31489","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=31489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31508,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31489\/revisions\/31508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}