[Leica] IMG: Same Scene 1967 & 2016

[Adam Bridge]

I love the variety of different beers from the early shot, replaced by international brands in the modern. I remember all those great varieties in the German-dense regions that are now gone. Not Milwaukee for me, but Cincinnati had many as well.

Fascinating what the unintended backgrounds of our images can reveal, isn’t it?

Thank you!

Adam

> On 2016 Feb 21, at 7:40 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwmalumni.com> wrote:
> 
> In digitizing some of my archive of negatives and slides, I've found images
> without complete information.  One picture that had vexed me was of a truck
> hauling a huge girder for an expressway bridge that I shot in 1967.  I was
> pretty sure I took it just south of downtown (called the Third Ward) and I
> was going to cruise around there to see if I could find the location.
> Well, on Saturday I was in that area for a vintage motorcycle show, and
> thought the buildings near Pittsburgh Avenue looked familiar.  I shot some
> frames with my Lumix and it was the right place.  There is even a sign for
> a different bar in the upper right corner (I composed from memory, but got
> pretty close).
> 
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Time+Lapse/19670325_MR_HIST_2A.jpg.html
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> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Time+Lapse/20160220_MR_Mine_LMX1020789.jpg.html
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> 
> I took the original photo with my first reflex camera - an Asahiflex that
> had a waist-level finder plus an optical finder for a 50mm lens.  The
> camera was old when I got it and when the temperature was below 50F the
> shutter got cranky and the mirror would not return to the down position.  I
> got used to unscrewing the lens and pulling the mirror down with my
> fingernail after each shot.  I eventually sold this camera to the regional
> Pentax rep to help finance the purchase of my first M3, a second-hand one
> that I used for 40 years (my favorite camera ever).
> 
> -- 
> Alan