Night Owl Cards

Here is another one of those stories from when I was a kid. You people under 40 are just going to have to ride along. I don't know what age I was -- I know I was older than 6 but younger than 10 -- when my dad first gave a slide show for us kids. We sat in a room off the kitchen, the living room and steps upstairs on the other side (that room was so cool -- it had two doors!). My dad put up the projector screen and then out came the slide projector. It was the wheel-style (or what Don Draper called a carousel ). That scene in "Mad Men" brought it all back. I remember the rhythmic clicking as the wheel shifted from slide to slide. I remember watching each slide as if it was a movie and being disappointed when the screen came up blank -- because that was the end of the show. Slide projectors were quite popular in the '50s and '60s, and I'm sure my parents bought one because that was the thing to do at the time. I've been fascinated by slides ever si...