Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Y'all - So it seems I had a birthday this weekend and decided to get myself a frivolous yet practical & affordable present; to this end I'm having Don Goldberg send me a rebuilt Minox IIIs. (This simultaneously tags me as a sucker for cool machines and also as an unreconstructed film addict.) Elsewhere in the news someone in the family gave me a really nice Case pocketknife which she sez was her grandfather's (she's my age so this is a somewhat vintage piece.) It has three blades, two of which are almost identical. My father-in-law sez that this is because everyone he knew who had a pocketknife back in the day used to break off part of one of the blades and grind the stump into a screwdriver. Anyone know if this was indeed a common practice in the early-middle parts of the 20th century?? Also, if we keep talkin' about the creativity and craft of certain late 60's-early seventies rock bands I just may hafta bring up Mott the Hoople... Bob Palmieri