{"id":33429,"date":"2026-02-07T01:03:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=33429"},"modified":"2026-02-03T21:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:58:58","slug":"paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33430\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/665-lot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33430\" class=\"wp-image-33430 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/665-lot-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">old camera tagged as lot 665 for auction on February 15, 2026<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Our events are &#8216;paradise&#8217; for photographic collectors &#8211; hardware and images alike. Our first event for 2026 is the <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/jan-25-2026-museum-auction-part-2\/\">February 15 auction<\/a>. A sampling of lots is already available in an earlier post (see above link) now pinned to the top of page one until we close the auction.<\/p>\n<p>Come down to Legion hall 101 in Long Branch (southwest Toronto) and add to your collection\/user gear. Free admission, free parking, good food, friends, and a chance to handle and inspect the lots offered.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The post title is from a song on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meat_Loaf\">Meat Loaf<\/a>&#8216;s first album (1977), &#8220;Bat Out of Hell&#8221; called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C11MzbEcHlw\">Paradise by the Dashboard Light<\/a>&#8221; and sung by Meat Loaf and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ellen_Foley\">Ellen Foley<\/a>. The baseball analogy is called by Yankee&#8217;s announcer, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phil_Rizzuto\">Phil Rizzuto<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Our events are &#8216;paradise&#8217; for photographic collectors &#8211; hardware and images alike. Our first event for 2026 is the February 15 auction. A sampling of lots is already available in an earlier post (see above link) now pinned to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/paradise\/\">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":[27],"tags":[500,34,286,279,4644],"class_list":["post-33429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auction","tag-accessories","tag-cameras","tag-darkroom","tag-lenses","tag-old-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33429","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=33429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33436,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33429\/revisions\/33436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}