Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/22

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Subject: [Leica] Vienna
From: oliverbryk at comcast.net (Oliver Bryk)
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:53:10 -0800
 
Frank wrote:

"Many of the Austrian Empire castles are painted a rather odd color of
yellow...and are really fancy houses more than the traditional "Castle"
of medieval times...."

The odd color is called "Kaisergelb" (Emperor's Yellow) and every public
building in the Monarchy proudly wore it, no matter where. 

I had it custom blended for my house in San Francisco.

Oliver (once a Viennese, always a Viennese)