Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello Afterswift, Now that, in my opinion, is a wonderful posting. Sonny Monday, September 29, 2003, 3:09:22 PM, you wrote: Aac> In a message dated 9/29/03 12:07:22 PM, mark@rabinergroup.com writes: Aac> << I don't think Kodak is smart enough to think like that. Not evil enough. Aac> Rochester remember is where they are. Not Redmond. Not an evil place. >>> Aac> For over half a century Kodak had it all their way. I was a frequent visitor Aac> to Rochester during the 80s and 90s. Aac> I visited the Kodak plant, attended their inhouse photo club meetings, often Aac> attended Eastman House exhibits, and enjoyed driving up there from NYC. I Aac> recall seeing women, who must have begun working for Kodak in their teens, whose Aac> job it was to check and measure out the leaders of 35mm cassette film. Visitors Aac> had to walk through a shallow tray of water before entering the plant. They Aac> had their own world. Kodak's narrow gauge RR snaked among those 19th century Aac> buildings. It seemed as though George Eastman would be watching. Those old Aac> concrete floors were kept scrupulously clean. Aac> Rochester was a workingman's town. Gleason Machine tools is still there. Aac> Downtown is dead last time I did some street shooting. I think Linx Trainer's Aac> plant is still there. Aac> Wegman's built an elaborate food emporium that I've seen nowhere else. Like a Aac> Hollywood set. Each section had its own decor and mood. It was located in a Aac> suburb close to Rochester. The Erie Canal threads through Rochester, into the Aac> heart of downtown. Rochester has a remarkable crafts school, RIT, including an Aac> excellent photo department. And the UO is there, including their medical Aac> school. Great place to visit. My spies tell me the city has since been taken over Aac> by techies. I could never find a decent restaurant there, although they had a Aac> great delicatessen I've not seen the like of in the Northwest. The landscape is Aac> rather bleak unless you drive south to the Finger Lakes region and the town Aac> of Skaneateles or northwest toward the Falls. Aac> But Rochester was -- and probably is now -- a well-off town. At a meeting to Aac> save the local classical music station, a lady addressed the chair: "If they Aac> try to change the format, let's buy it." And those matrons meant business. They Aac> could easily swing a couple of million. Aac> Methinks Kodak probably had a lot to do with making Rochester solid. Eastman Aac> didn't make will-o'-the-wisp products. Aac> br Aac> -- Aac> To unsubscribe, see Aac> http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Best regards, Sonny mailto:sonc@sonc.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html