Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/07

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Subject: [Leica] Oil Tanker
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Wed Feb 7 13:17:57 2007
References: <D8BC7E90-C7BE-46E9-BC41-7DF66D9E6C47@earthlink.net> <1730956DD0A8A87C96AA6917@hindolveston.reid.org> <21DD39FE-95BF-4F88-880D-45A1100EAA04@mac.com> <45C8D282.6090907@hemenway.com> <8216C5A5-1F28-4D64-8251-4F709D343035@pandora.be> <45C94F3B.1020708@hemenway.com>

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
>>>
>
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In reply to: Message from telyt at earthlink.net (Doug Herr) ([Leica] EMERGENCY FS: Reflex stuff)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] EMERGENCY FS: Reflex stuff)
Message from kennybod at mac.com (Kenneth Frazier) ([Leica] EMERGENCY FS: Reflex stuff)
Message from Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway) ([Leica] Oil Tanker)
Message from philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent) ([Leica] Oil Tanker)
Message from Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway) ([Leica] Oil Tanker)