Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/17

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Subject: [Leica] Spiro where have you been?
From: ealadner at comcast.net (Eric Ladner)
Date: Sun Dec 17 18:46:17 2006
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On Dec 17, 2006, at 6:26 PM, Jerry Lehrer wrote:

> Omigawd!  I dinna realize that my Bronx HS of Science classmate (1947) 
> wrote that!
> He was the editor of the school newspaper when I was the photo editor 
> (1946 -1947)
> He didn't think much of my Leica IIIa which I used till I got a 
> Rolleiflex.
>

Cool! Small world, ain't it?

I didn't discover until years later, while flipping through the alumni 
directory, that I was in college with musician and music producer 
(Buena Vista Social Club) Ry Cooder. Nobody I knew then remembers him, 
but then, I'm sure he doesn't remember me, either.

--Eric
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