Back in 2015, Meagan Abell bought some vintage slide film transparencies at a thrift shop, which she first thought were photo negatives. There was no information about the pictures that showed two women, one in a red dress, the other in a blue dress with a red sash, posing ethereally on a beach. The photos appeared to be from the 1950s. Abell took to social media to enlist help in identifying the women in the pictures, with the aim of finding the story behind the photos.
First, the location was identified as Dockweiler Beach in Los Angeles. Then the purpose of the photoshoot was revealed -it was for an album cover! Once the woman in red was identified, the discarded slides led us to a tragic story about a music career in which everything that could go wrong happened. That includes the frustrating missed connection as the singer never knew of the search for her before she died. Read the entire story of #Find the Girls on the Negatives at Flashbak. -via Strange Company