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Subject: [Leica] Re: China, Japan, Thailand, etc.
From: len-001 at verizon.net (Leonard Taupier)
Date: Thu Feb 5 09:42:52 2009
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Seth,

Yes, your dad was right.

Len


On Feb 5, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Seth Rosner wrote:

> Oh you're THAT old Larry?    ;-)
>
> I recall, as a kid, my dad telling me - and I don't know to this  
> day if it is/was fact or apocryphal - that before WWII there was a  
> Japanese town called Usa where much manufacture was done, so that  
> they could mark products: "made in Usa"
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Zeitlin"  
> <lrzeitlin@optonline.net>
> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
> Cc: "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin@optonline.net>
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 11:42 AM
> Subject: [Leica] Re: China, Japan, Thailand, etc.
>
>
>>
>> On Feb 5, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Chris wrote:
>>
>>> The "pro"
>>> gear is still "Made in Japan".
>>
>>
>> When I was a kid,"Made in Japan" had a pejorative ring to it. Only
>> cheap stuff was made in Japan.
>>
>> Larry Z
>>
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Replies: Reply from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Re: China, Japan, Thailand, etc.)
In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: China, Japan, Thailand, etc.)
Message from sethrosner at nycap.rr.com (Seth Rosner) ([Leica] Re: China, Japan, Thailand, etc.)