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Subject: [Leica] IMGs: Galilee Harbor
From: j2m46 at hotmail.fr (Jean-Michel Mertz)
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 18:48:12 +0200
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A very interesting series, the colours are beautiful, one can understand why 
they've chosen to live there. Great place. Thanks for sharing.Jean-Michel
 > From: oliverbryk at comcast.net
> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 06:02:39 -0700
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] IMGs: Galilee Harbor
> 
> Galilee Harbor is a houseboat community in Sausalito. 
> 
> >From the website of the Galilee Harbor Community Association, a 
> >member-run cooperative community composed of artists and marine workers: 
> 
> Residents of Galilee Harbor are actively employed in marine and artistic 
> occupations, including boat-building, boat repair, sail-making, marine 
> canvas work, creative writing, theater, painting, photography, and other 
> visual arts. Boat builders and their families have lived next to the Mono 
> Street Marsh in Sausalito since the 1800s when Italian fishing families 
> lived at the foot of Napa Street and built their traditional feluccas on 
> the beach. By the 1890s live-aboard barges served as vacation getaways for 
> wealthy San Franciscans. In 1906 the barges became full-time homes for San 
> Francisco residents displaced by the earthquake. In the 1940's Sausalito's 
> Marinship yard constructed merchant "Liberty" ships and tankers, employing 
> 70,000 workers. 
> 
> I posted a few pictures of today's Galilee Harbor at   
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OBRYK/Galilee_Harbor/  . Leica M8, 
> Elmarit 24mm.
> 
> Cs & Cs cheerfully considered.
> 
> Oliver
> 
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