“When we got them together and paired them up, it was kind of amazing,” Boles reflects. He came across a shoebox of slides that turned out to be quite similar to the ones Heishman had found at the scrapyard. Two years later, Heishman’s longtime friend Michael Boles was helping a friend move into a new house in Kansas City - which, as he describes it, was right around the corner from the drag clubs that were vibrant in the ‘50s and ‘60s. “I didn’t really know what I was purchasing, but I wanted to have time to sit with them a little longer,” he explains. “There were family photos, and then I hit this line of images that were all people dressed in drag, predominantly standing in front of this beautiful mosaic outside a bar.” Intrigued, Heishman purchased the slides - for $2. “The first image I looked at was this picture of a man in a kimono that was incredibly colorful - it was just a stunning image to behold,” Heishman told the Cut. In 2006, artist Robert Heishman was poking around a Kansas City salvage yard, looking for material for an undergraduate documentary class, when he stumbled upon a slide carousel labeled “Jack’s Slides: Chicago and Kansas City.”