[Leica] IMG: Wayback Photos - '60's & 1970

[Jim Nichols]

Nice memories.  I like the last one best, probably because I spent a lot 
of time in early wind tunnel control rooms.

By the way, I still have both the 50 and 55mm Takumars.  I always felt 
that the 55 was a little sharper than the 50s.

On 7/1/21 8:58 AM, Alan Magayne-Roshak via LUG wrote:
> After more than a year of Covid concerns, my wife's medical problems, and
> two house projects (new roof and basement waterproofing), I'm getting
> back to my archive (at least what I have available at home).  Here are four
> early pictures that I like.
>
> There used to be scrap yards along the south portion of Milwaukee harbor,
> before revitalization and beautification.  I found this locomotive cab
> dusted with
> snow in January 1968.
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/The+Sixties/19680120_MR_Mine_16.jpg.html
> The journalism building on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus was
> demolished for a power plant driveway, but not before it sported protest
> signs
> put up by the students.  As fate would have it, I never took a class in
> there (or any journalism courses), being an Art History major; and with the
> student newspaper
> housed in a former frat house off campus, I entered only once, to
> photograph a professor (Jay Sykes - the father of television commentator
> Charlie Sykes).
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/The+Sixties/19690428_MR_POST_3.jpg.html
> An office portrait of Perry Baer, a philosopher.
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/The+Sixties/19691016_MR_POST_25.jpg.html
>
> I found this chair facing a wall of gauges amusing.
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/The+Seventies/19700903_MR_Mine_B021c_18.jpg.html
> All can be viewed large.
>
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Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA