Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sic transit gloria mundi. And Gloria was a sweet lady. --Peter On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwmalumni.com> wrote: > Camera Center, which had been on the corner of Capitol Drive and Bartlett > Avenue in Shorewood since 1972, is closing this week. It might have been > the last camera store east of 76th Street (I don't think there are any > camera shops in the city of Milwaukee anymore). It used to have a thriving > collectible camera section. I bought my first M3 + 50/2 collapsible > Summicron here, as well as a near-mint IIIf + 50/2 collapsible Summicron, > 4x5 RB Graflex, 4x5 Speed Graphic, Ansco Super-Speedex, Voigtlander Bessa > II, Majestic tripod, and many miscellaneous gadgets. Lately, it was still > selling a fair amount of film and chemicals to photo students at local > colleges. My alma mater, UWM, where I used to work, still teaches chemical > based photography (as well as digital). > > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > Signs/20160825_MR_Mine_DSF3526.jpg.html > > > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > Signs/20160825_MR_Mine_DSF3542.jpg.html > > > > Their back door LEICA sign had already been sold. > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > Signs/LeicaSign_1978_AMR.jpg.html > > > > > -- > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services > (Retired) > UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 > UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 > amr3 at uwm.edu > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate > for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >