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Subject: [Leica] [OM] IMG: Recalling Life Fifteen Years Ago
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 22:37:48 +0200
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Lovely memory, Jim!

Cheers,
Nathan

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> On 24 Jun 2021, at 19:18, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote:
> 
> A local fly-in in 2006 attracted a lot of people to the airport, including 
> a number of retirees who enjoyed an excuse to get outside.  Four AEDC 
> retirees were greeting each other when a younger acquaintance asked to 
> take our picture. He sent me an 8x10 which has been on a shelf in my 
> office for the past fifteen years. Now 91 and limited in my activities, I 
> find the photo sets me to thinking of the past.
> 
> Pictured are two Jims and two Cliffs.  I am easy to recognize by  the 
> Leica IIIf and an SLR around my neck.  The Cliff next to me was a very 
> young B-24 belly turret gunner in WWII, and later joined me to supervise 
> operations of the world's largest supersonic wind tunnel. The next Jim was 
> an instrumentation supervisor, and the next Cliff was a computer 
> technician.  All of us worked long night shifts in the past, because that 
> was when the electrical power was cheapest, and we used large quantities 
> of it.
> 
> Sorry, the feet are cut off, but that is the way the photo was shot.
> 
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210624-P6240092.JPG.html
> 
> I don't recall seeing any of these guys since that day in 2006, but the 
> photo is a cross-section of the past, for me. And, in Tennessee, we do 
> have some colorful chacters.
> 
> -- 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
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