Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I wish you parents would have kept it: would have guaranteed you a life full of any camera you'd wish for. Philippe Op 7-feb-07, om 05:02 heeft Jim Hemenway het volgende geschreven: > Philippe: > > This was a nostalgic trip into the past for me. My folks had a > cottage south of Boston in the town of North Weymouth when I was a > kid over fifty years ago. > > You can't see our rocky neighborhood beach in the "Almost through > the gut and on the way to Quincy" photo, but it is about a half > mile away to the left of that crane shown in the distance at the > former Bethlehem Ship Yard. > > These tankers came in about a half dozen times each summer, always > at high tide. We could see them coming through Hull Gut in the > distance and would wait with great anticipation just to be able to > jump/swim through the half dozen, one foot waves produced by the > tanker as it passed us. > > My folks bought the cottage in 1945 for $1,000. Two owners later > it was sold in 2004 for $250K. > > Jim > > Philippe Orlent wrote: >> Looks like narrow waters indeed. >> Thansk for showing, >> Philippe >> Op 6-feb-07, om 20:09 heeft Jim Hemenway het volgende geschreven: >>> >>> <http://www.half-fast.com/OilTanker-01242007/> >>> >>> Jim >>> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >