{"id":743,"date":"2025-01-29T01:11:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T07:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paoprod.com\/blog\/?p=743"},"modified":"2025-02-02T19:59:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T01:59:18","slug":"items-im-looking-for-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paoprod.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/29\/items-im-looking-for-in-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Items I&#8217;m looking for in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"With 2025 now underway, I am laying out my plans for the new year.  Alongside the usual new year's resolutions and the incentives to myself to get healthier, I'm also putting some thought into what blog and other personal projects I'd like to see realized over the coming months.  Toward this end, I've compiled the following list of \"must have\" and \"would be nice\" items that will help bring those plans and ideas to fruition.  If you (or anyone you know) are aware of a source for any of the following items, or have some examples that you are willing to donate, potentially sell, or just allow the use of for various blog features and\/or research projects, please <a href=\"#\" onclick=\"javascript:OpenOverlay('\/about-me\/contact-me\/ContactMe.php', 'Contact Me'); return false\">reach out to me<\/a>:\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\r\n<li>Original, non-commercial (i.e., amateur) photo prints, snapshots, negatives, and slides of the Dallas-Fort Worth area from the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly those showing buildings, streets, and important events (but not parades).  This includes amateur real photo postcards, and especially includes amateur photos from local band performances taken prior to the advent of digital cameras.\r\n\r\n<li>Original flyers for local shows at area clubs and music venues from the 1990s and earlier, or originally made (i.e., not taken off the internet) high quality images of them\r\n\r\n<li>Original memorabilia of any kind related to businesses located on or along <span style=\"text-decoration:underline; font-weight:bold; color:blue\">Poydras Street<\/span> in Dallas, from any time period, especially photos, postcards, business cards, advertisements, and physical promotional items (advertising handouts, branded items and other such artifacts) <span style=\"color:red\">(high priority)<\/span>\r\n\r\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/2024\/12\/29\/early-photography-studios-in-dallas-a-walking-tour\/\">Cabinet cards<\/a> and CDVs produced in the Dallas-Fort Worth area from 1870 through 1900\r\n\r\n<li>Vintage, original photo prints, negatives, and slides of <a href=\"\/about-me\/road-trips\/\">areas and attractions I've visited on prior road trips<\/a>\r\n\r\n<li>Vintage, original 8mm films of sites in the DFW area (amateur films, not commercial, and not films of private events such as weddings and birthday parties unless they include notable individuals)\r\n\r\n<li>Photos of interracial couples predating <i>Loving vs. Virginia<\/i> (i.e., before 1967), including slides\r\n\r\n<li>Original <strong style=\"font-style:italic\">music-related&nbsp;<\/strong> 'zines from the Dallas-Fort Worth area, from any time period\r\n\r\n<li>Route 66-related slides and photos, amateur only (not commercially produced)\r\n\r\n<li>Any \"found footage\" style audio and video recordings related to DFW happenings, on any format I can play (cassette, 1\/4 inch reel-to-reel, home-recorded 8 track cartridges, microcassettes, <!-- home cut DuoDisc records, --> VHS\/VHS-C, Video8, Hi8, miniDV, DVD-R and other recordable DVD media)\r\n\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nWhen it comes to cabinet cards, photos of places outside the DFW metroplex, and the pre-<i>Loving<\/i> photos, I am looking to acquire originals, but in all the other instances, I only need permission to reproduce materials and don't need to actually acquire originals as long as a good quality copy can be provided.  This is particularly the case for the various historical research projects that concern local history or the DFW music scene in particular.  \r\n\r\n<p>\r\nPlans for 2025 include finishing up the <a href=\"\/blog\/2023\/11\/19\/ghosts-of-dfw-music-history-blog-series\/\">Ghosts of DFW Music History blog series<\/a>, some historical posts concerning Dallas history, completing my <a href=\"\/about-me\/road-trips\/\">Road Trips<\/a> and <a href=\"\/photography\/live\/\">Live Performance Photography<\/a> photo galleries, a few recipe and cooking-related posts, and possibly some photography-related experiments and\/or videos.  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