Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/20
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Boy - 40th Anniversary! Makes sense - Five days after my 17th birthday -
and my 57th is this weekend...Yech...I was there, though, covering it
for a weekly paper in Conn. - They gave me a two-age spread with the
utterly inappropriate headline - Our Man -17 -Marched On
Washington...:-)
B. D.
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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Ken
Firestone
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 12:44 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Old times in Washington, DC
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, bdcolen wrote:
You left the area just as the "fun" started!:-)
You are absolutely right! During the years I was here things were pretty
calm. Nice peaceful demonstrations for civil rights (40th anniversary
coming up this weekend) and against the war.
However, I did manage to wind up finding some "fun." I moved to Chicago.
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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Ken
Firestone
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 10:41 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Old times in Washington, DC
I was at Maryland from 60-62, and 64-67. I always did my own B&W
becaues
I couldn't afford to send it out. I left the area in 67, after I
graduated. But I would come back to visit my parents. On one of those
visits I did stop by Images. Mr. Okamoto (not sure of the
spelling) was looking at portfolios, and I had a nice afternoon
chatting
with him. The 21 I mentioned has a sort of WH connection. Its
previous
owner, Ollie Atkins, later became Richard Nixon's photographer.
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, bdcolen wrote:
Good Lord! When were you at Maryland? I was at GW from 66-70. And
of
course I went to National Camera Repair...and to that fantastic
black
and white lab - Images - that was started by LBJ's WH photographer
and
someone else...It was in that same block of Penna. Ave...
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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Ken
Firestone
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 4:15 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Is that jerk cassidy stil doing a PAW?
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, bdcolen wrote:
Yup - George Washington University. I wasn't on the Cherry Tree
;-)
staff, I was the Exec. News Editor of The Hatchet - another ;-)
- -
the
student newspaper.
I was at University of Maryland. Took pictures and sometimes wrote
for
the Diamondback, and got to edit the Terrapin one year.
Why no Leica? I'd abandoned my IIIc for the SLR - and didn't
return
to
Leica until the mid-70s. I've always been an on-again/off-again
Leica
guy, who each time he leaves, eventually regrets the move, and
pays
twice as much to get back into the club.
I guess I was lucky. Maryland owned an M2 and an M3 for some of
the
time
I was there. And I got my parents to bring an M2 home from Europe,
and I
managed to aquire a few lenses, including an early screw mount 21.
BTW BD, did you go to National Camera Repairs on Pa. Ave?
And on top of all that I was doing far more writing than
shooting
at
that point, and continued to do so for a couple decades there
after.
B. D.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of
Ken
Firestone
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:22 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Is that jerk cassidy stil doing a PAW?
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, bdcolen wrote:
Kyle's great Howard Dean shot reminded me of something - and
sent
me
looking for the 1969 GWU yearbook - and the flatbed..
http://www.leica-gallery.net/bdcolen/image-50912.html
As cropped in the yearbook...late October, 1968. Undoubtedly
shot
on
Tri-X - was there any other film? - with a Pentax and
Vivitar
Series
1
28 lens - those of you who only look at Leica images, avert
your
eyes!
:-)
So you were doing yearbook stuff in 1969, huh? I assume GWU is
George
Washington University?
And why weren't you using a Leica then? When I did my yearbook
stint,
a
few years earlier, I managed to use my M2 quite a bit.
(pictures
later)
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