[Leica] IMG: Oil Lamps

[Jim Nichols]

Mantle should read "mantel".  My error.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 5/17/2015 2:07 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> Hi Gerry,
>
> When I was growing up on a Mississippi farm in the 1930s, we spoke a 
> Southern drawl that was not even recognized by our Yankee visitors, 
> much less folks from your side of the"pond".  It was so bad that when 
> my late wife, born in Wisconsin, was in the fourth grade, she had to 
> serve as "interpreter" between her teacher and children of the Yankee 
> engineers who built a munitions plant in our area (1942).
>
> I gave that paragraph as background, because, on the farm, aside from 
> a wood-burning fireplace, the only light we had was from oil lamps, 
> though not those that you pictured.  We referred to those as 
> lanterns.  Our "oil lamps" were of this type.  This one is a mantle 
> decoration most of the time, but has been used during electrical outages.
>
>  http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/P5174633+FM_filtered.jpg.html 
>
>
> Not picking on you, just trying to spread the light. :-)
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 5/17/2015 9:36 AM, Gerry Walden wrote:
>> Just resurrected this in b&w using SEP2 - hope you like it:
>>
>> http://gerrywalden.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Black-White-Mono/G0000907QnILyMI8/I0000ZnUBVhBagfg# 
>> <http://gerrywalden.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Black-White-Mono/G0000907QnILyMI8/I0000ZnUBVhBagfg#> 
>>
>>
>> Gerry
>>
>> Gerry Walden
>> 023 8046 3076
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