Re: [Leica] the slow horrible death of leica

["Craig Roberts" <croberts@zoomtel.com>]

Actually...despite the "Leitz..camera" story...the truth is that Oskar
himself is reponsible for the Leica name.  As we know, Herr Barnack was a
fun-loving party animal, given to knocking down a few Munich brews and
listening to the day's underground music...jazz.  He and his freunds would
gather in Oskar's pad on Saturday nights and groove to the tunes on his
Victrola.  One evening he had left his new invention on the coffee table
during the party and one of his buds picked it up.  In an age of box
Brownies and unwieldy bellows cameras, the friend didn't recognize the
device.  "What is it, man?", he asked.

Oskar replied, "It's, like, a camera...."

Craig
Boston

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 3:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] the slow horrible death of leica


> Chandos Brown wrote:
> >
> > Uh, I hate to correct a good story, but the dog's name was "Laika,"
which
> > is apparently Russian for "bark" or something like that: nothing to do
with
> > cameras, Leicas, Zorkies, or otherwise.
> >
> > Chandos
> ><Snip>
>
> Maybe Oscar Barnack had a Russian girlfriend! Or was it Ernst who came up
with
> the name "Leica"?
> Mark Rabiner