[Leica] 1964 World's fair pics

[r.s.taylor_post at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)]

Mark - I hope you're going to show us some of those pictures.

Thanks for the reminder of the times - we were off to the moon and at  
the same time living through a social revolution.  I hope our next  
venture off planet doesn't bring more upheaval with it.  I'm getting  
too old for that kind of excitement.

Regards,

Dick
r.s.taylor_post at comcast.net



On May 4, 2009, at 1:27 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> I took pictures of the Fair with a Brownie instamatic 100 in June/ 
> July.
> MCMLXIV
> I was 13. It was a very good year.
> Was no longer singing soprano.
> I got my Voigtl?nder Vito BL later that December.
>
> July 2 ? President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964  
> into
> law, abolishing racial segregation in the United States.
>
> June 12 ? Nelson Mandela and 7 others are sentenced to life  
> imprisonment in
> South Africa, and sent to the Robben Island prison.
>
> July 2 ? President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964  
> into
> law, abolishing racial segregation in the United States.
>
> July 27 ? Vietnam War: The U.S. sends 5,000 more military advisers  
> to South
> Vietnam, bringing the total number of United States forces in  
> Vietnam to
> 21,000.
>
> July 31 ? Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up  
> photographs
> of the moon (images are 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen  
> from
> Earth-bound telescopes).
>
> August 1 ? The Final Looney Tune, "Se?orella and the Glass  
> Huarache", is
> released before the Warner Bros. Cartoon Division is shut down by Jack
> Warner.
>
> August 7 ? Vietnam War: The United States Congress passes the Gulf  
> of Tonkin
> Resolution, giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers  
> to deal
> with North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.
>
> August 17 ? Margaret Harshaw, Metropolitan Opera Soprano, sings the  
> role of
> Turandot in Puccini's opera Turandot at the New York World's Fair.
>
> August 27 ? Walt Disney's Mary Poppins has its world premiere in Los
> Angeles. It will go on to become Disney's biggest moneymaker, and  
> winner of
> 5 Academy Awards, including a Best Actress award for Julie Andrews,  
> who
> accepted the part after she was passed over by Jack L. Warner for the
> leading role of Eliza Dolittle in the film version of My Fair Lady.  
> Mary
> Poppins is the first Disney film to be nominated for Best Picture.
>
> September 17 ? Goldfinger is shown in UK theaters.
>
>
>
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>> From: Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 19:53:33 -0700
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] 1964 World's fair pics
>>
>>
>>> I can't believe no one else on the LUG has pictures of the Fair.
>>
>> Well, um, it was 45 years ago. I was 15 years old at the time.
>
>
>
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