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

[RicCarter]

great sign!

ric


> On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:09 AM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwmalumni.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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