Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/10/07

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Subject: [Leica] Kaffie Frederick's
From: leowesson at gmail.com (leo wesson)
Date: Tue Oct 7 09:57:03 2008
References: <a3f189160810070830o5936d3e8ydf581eb47da82e97@mail.gmail.com> <796o8r$1lcbjk@pd2mo1so-svcs.prod.shaw.ca>

Sonny,

I had one of those large steelies.  Reminds me of an old hardware store in
Rice Village in Houston where everything was arranged alphabetically.  Don't
know if it's still there, been awhile....

leo



On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:

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> >>A visit to Kaffie-Frederick Hardware from this Saturday.  I've been going
> there for more than 60 years, I was just a baby the first time.
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> All the pictures are on one page. It might be a little slow on dial-up, but
> there are just six pictures. So, load up the url, go get some tea and sit
> back and enjoy another look at Natchitoches.
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> http://www.sonc.com/hardware/ <<<<<<<
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> Hi Sonny,
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> What a wonderful store for a guy to browse, particularly the older bunch of
> us for a shot of nostalgia and rekindling our youth in similar type
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> Thanks for some fond memories. I think this kind of picture series beats
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> Thanks for posting.
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> Ted
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> PS: I had a bag of marbles myself , usually not for long as I never had a
> good eye for knocking other guy's marbles out of play! :-(
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In reply to: Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] Kaffie Frederick's)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant) ([Leica] Kaffie Frederick's)