[Leica] A visit to Baton Rouge

[Douglas Barry]

A nice flavour of a place I've never been to, Sonny. I had to look at it 
on Google maps. That Mississippi is one big river.

As an ex-banker, no longer with vaulting ambitions, I like the vault 
door in the shop. Back in the 80s, we were expanding a branch of our 
bank which had been set up originally in a small suburban shop. However, 
the area mushroomed, and the premises were too small to cope, so, at 
vast expense, a new larger branch was built which had a huge and 
expensive vault. Time passed as it always does, priorities changed as 
they always do, and following a rationalisation, the bank branch was 
sold to a former classmate of mine who is a chemist (pharmacist in 
USian). After looking at the costs of demolishing the vault, he still 
has an enormous safe in his shop.

Douglas


On 30/07/2019 06:50, Sonny Carter via LUG wrote:
> Once a year I go to a meeting of University Library Systems Administrators
> and since the meeting is in one of the State buildings near the Capitol, I
> usually stay in a downtown hotel.  An unusual July "cold front" passed,
> making the normally sweltering city quite spring-like, so I took a buzz
> around downtown to see what I could see.
> I passed the restaurants in favor of some items from the deli of a terrific
> downtown grocery.  Our visit starts there. Scroll down for five shots.
>
> https://sonc.com/look/?p=6500
>
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
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>
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