[Leica] blast from the past

[leica68 at gmail.com (Parker D. Haeg)]

Great shots, Phil.  Just goes to show how one can unexpectedly capture a bit
of history.

Parker

On 7/8/08, Alastair Firkin <afirkin@afirkin.com> wrote:
>
>
> Phil, One of my childhood heartthrobs: She was very cute and could really
> sing: or so I thought at the age of 10 ;-)
>
>
> > Subject: [Leica] blast from the past
>
> >
> > I was going through some old storage boxes and ran across some negatives
> > from VN that I thought had been lost, though I still have the contact
> > sheets.  One set was taken when Nancy Sinatra was doing a USO tour in
> late
> > '66 and visited our post just outside of Saigon.  I managed to find my
> way
> > into where she was hanging out backstage and got a few pictures.  IIRC,
> the
> > camera would have been an M3 and 50mm Summicron:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/5uu3wu
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> >
> > They're nothing to shout about but I'm glad I found them anyway.  My
> > daughter will enjoy them I'm sure.  You can't tell from the photos but
> her
> > dress and boots were bright pink.  Nancy would been 26 at the time, same
> age
> > as I was.  Her wiki article mentions the USO tour in 66-7.
> >
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