A random garage sale purchase surprises a 13-year-old with a picture of a relative he had never known.
When Addison Logan, 13, opened an old Polaroid camera he bought at a garage sale, he and his grandmother got a big surprise: a picture of her son -- his uncle -- who died 23 years ago. The person with him is possibly a high school girlfriend. (Matt Pearce, For The Times / May 27, 2012)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Cameras can't bring back the dead — or can they?
Addison Logan, 13, had broken his arm in a motocross accident and was looking for things to do. So on Thursday, he went shopping at garage sales with his grandmother in west Wichita, Kan.
At the third garage sale, he spotted an old Polaroid Impulse — a cool find, given that a lot of popular online photo filters imitate what these cameras used to do. He bought the Polaroid for $1.....
He cracked the camera open and found a bit of history inside: a classic photo of a young guy and girl hanging out.
He showed the photo to his grandmother.
"Wow," she said, and kept staring at the photograph.
"That's your uncle," she said...
He showed the photo to his grandmother.
"Wow," she said, and kept staring at the photograph.
"That's your uncle," she said...
Full story at: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-old-camera-surprise-20120528,0,609406.story
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