Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, 06 Dec 2001 12:01:36 -0800 Jim Brick <jim@brick.org> wrote: > At 08:08 AM 12/6/2001 -0600, Walter S Delesandri wrote: > > >BTW, Sonny, our local 120 year old hardware store went out of business a > >coupla years > >ago....I meant to "document" it for several years before that, and DIDN'T!!!! > > > >Walt > > I live dead center in Silicon Valley. Stand on my roof and you can see > National Semiconductor, AMD, Amdahl, Intel, etc. All within blocks, not miles. > > One block from me is a five acre field called the "Corn Palace." > For years, I though of documenting the property and thought about taking > one photograph each week from exactly the same spot. > Then we heard that the developers could not get funding and that the deal > was off > The old guys (Joe & Ben) that own and work the ground, and sell in the > stand, are in their 80's. Their kids actually do a lot of the heavy labor Now, every Friday morning at 7am, I photograph the Corn Palace from exactly I'm going to print 52 10x10 Ciba prints, make an album, and give it to Joe > & Ben. But I won't stop photographing. I'm going to continue but from a> > This is one time that it didn't slip by. But I have Angela to thank for it. Great story, Jim, and thanks for the post....sounds like a wonderful document... > Sorry to hear that you missed it Walt. Actually, the store is now a "museum", and I didn't totally miss it...I have some nice stuff from the last two years or so,,, but it really isn't the same as when I used to run over there for emergency lab repair junk!!! Walt - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html