Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As a student I worked for a New Haven born-and-bred Red Sox fan, one Bart Giamatti. When Bart was a college (Yale's version of a dorm) master, I served as his aide assigned to maintain the college darkroom as part of my financial aid package. Thus I first learned about photography to help finance tuition, and once I could afford an old screwmount Leica (which were then a glut on the market) I started taking a few pictures of my own. I had occasion to show them to a superannuated magazine editor who had a sweet retirement gig teaching part time in the art school, one Walker Evans. I blithely declined a suggestion to study with him in favor of preparing for a real job (*hah*). Bart went on to a real job of his own as president of Yale, but his last and toughest gig was as Commissioner of Baseball. In addition to his lyrical contributions to the literature of the game, he is remembered by many and reviled by some as the man who expelled Pete Rose from baseball. He was also Paul Giamatti's dad, the guy in the movie Sideways, whom I remember as one of three little kids romping around the college grounds. Since then my own kids have found their way to New Haven, and one of them now helps offset her old man's expenses by working as a student assistant in Yale's main undergraduate darkroom. Coincidentally, the master of her college is a big Yankees fan, and takes like-minded students out for excursions to Yankee stadium. So I've arranged my life to get to visit New Haven and take my daughter out for Wooster Square pizza, the best there is. And yes, my daughter uses an M6, and I taught her how to use it, to develop and print while she was in high school, so this is on-topic. Peter. SF, CA --- Jim Hemenway <Jim@hemenway.com> wrote: > > > Douglas Nygren wrote: > > > You ask, where is New Haven? > > > > New Haven is 90 minutes east of Lincoln Center and > Carnegie Hall, 2 > > hours and 45 minutes west of a school in > Cambridge, Mass., whose name is > > unmentionable. It lies along the divide between > the Yanks and the Sox > > (don't you dare ask who they are), and it is the > home of the best pizza > > in the U.S., and if that is not enough, it is home > to a great Leica > > repairman. > > > > All this means is that you can send your kid to > Yale for an education, > > It's all skulls and bones! > > > come to visit and eat pizza or the great Italian > food here > > http://www.hiddenboston.com/Sullivans.html > > http://www.planet99.com/boston/restaurants/14595.html > > > and have your > > Leica repaired while you listen in to the local > argue about baseball. > > > > Doug Nygren > > > > And once again, the Yanks are who? > > :-) > > Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for > more information > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com