The images were so amazing to me that I can still SEE some of them in my mind's eye. I can visualize "The Three Little Pigs" better than the home I was living in when I first saw them.
I had slides of a few different tales like that, but also, oddly, a travelogue of Michigan..... Why? I can't imagine! Though we live in Michigan now, I grew up in Colorado and have no idea whatsoever why I should have had Michigan view master slides. Those slides were a complete mystery to me. I didn't understand, even, that Michigan was a state! (Or, undoubtedly, what a state was!) I need to remember to ask my mom why I had those. But one slide of that set I remember in particular - actually the only Michigan slide I remember - "Ann Arbor" and there was indeed an arbor, as I recall it, with roses. But, I was very confused about it all.....not understanding that Ann Arbor was the name of a town, where this place was, why I should be looking at those pictures.
Of course I gave Aidan and Lydia a view master, only because it had been such a memorable thing for me. I didn't suppose they cared for it that much. Perhaps my mother didn't think I did either - being that neither I nor my kids picked up and carefully store away our slides! In fact, I can still remember being frustrated that my slides were not in order, as I dug them the bottom of the toy box. But it must have made an impression on generation #2 because Lydia brought Calvin a view master. I frankly couldn't quite understand why the packaging kept emphasizing 3D! Wasn't that the point of a view master all along???? And, honestly, when I looked in Calvin's view master, I thought his slides were vastly inferior to my Three Little Pig slides. Or, could there be an issue with my memory?
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