Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This week I became aware that the sign at the rear entrance to Camera Center in Shorewood, made in the form of a Leica IIIf by Art Siemann Advertising & Sign Company, was gone. The owner of the store told me he sold it to a collector in Green Bay, after the man gave him a generous offer. Evidently, there were two such signs at the shop's original location a block away, before it had to move for the construction of an office building around 1972. This is the store where I bought my first M3, my IIIf, a Bessa II, Super-Speedex, Speed Graphic, and 4x5 RB Graflex. Here are three images of the sign over the years 1978 - 2014. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Signs/LeicaSign_1978_AMR.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Signs/LeicaSign_2008_AMR.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Signs/LeicaSign_2014_AMR.jpg.html I miss it. -- Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt