[Leica] IMG: End of an Era-Leica Sign

[Alan Magayne-Roshak]

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