Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]B.D. you have my sincere sympathy. More so, you have my utmost envy; to be there in '64. To see Bob Zimmerman in person, with fire in the belly. So, did you get any of the photos published, by Seventeen or anywhere else ? do you still have the negatives ? - - Phong > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of B. D. Colen > Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 2:33 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: RE: [Leica] Dumb camera thieves > > > My only pickpocket story is 38 years old...but it is a very sad one. Xmas > vacation '64, a friend and I went down to Greenwich Village for an evening > of trying to be cool and listening to folkies - I believe we saw Eric > Anderson somewhere on Bleeker Street. Anyway, before going down I had > carefully put my wallet in the zippered front pocket of my L.L Bean anorak - > the pocket right on my lower chest. And of course when we got home that > evening the wallet wasn't there - and the pocket was unzipped... > > And now, the rest of the story... > > The reason this tale is particularly sad, and still eats at me almost four > decades later, is that in the wallet I had the press pass I had gotten > through Seventeen Magazine - don't laugh - to shoot at the 1964 Newport Folk > Festival. And that press pass, which I had since the summer laminated, had > on it the autographs of every big name in folk music you can possibly think > of, from Bob Dylan to Joan Baez to Mississippi John Hurt, Pete Seeger, Peter > Paul and Mary, Mimi Baez, Jose Feliciano, and on and on and on... > > And now you know....The rest of the story..! ;-) > > B. D. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html