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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Wayback Pix 1968 - Demolished Train Depot Album
From: amr3 at uwmalumni.com (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 10:55:41 -0500

Fifity years ago the demolition of the Chicago & Northwestern Depot in
Milwaukee got me started documenting old buildings (before they
disappeared).

(The depot album starts here:<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-
Roshak/Buildings/Demolished+Buildings/Northwestern+Depot/
19680210_MR_EMKE_NWD1A_2.jpg.html>)

I loved this station.
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildi
ngs/Demolished+Buildings/Northwestern+Depot/19680206_
MR_EMKE_NWD1_19N.jpg.html>

My friends and I used to sneak inside.
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildi
ngs/Demolished+Buildings/Northwestern+Depot/19680206_MR_ARCH_NWD1_8.jpg.html
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildings/Northwestern+Depot/19680206_MR_ARCH_NWD1_8.jpg.html>
>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildi
ngs/Demolished+Buildings/Northwestern+Depot/19680317_
MR_ARCH_NWD4_12.jpg.html>
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildi
ngs/Demolished+Buildings/Northwestern+Depot/19680227_
TP_ARCH_NWD2_3N.jpg.html>

This sequence of the tower was from one blow of the wrecking ball (and shot
with a thumb-wind Pentax H3v).
First one + six more.
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildi
ngs/Demolished+Buildings/Northwestern+Depot/19680508_
MR_EMKE_NWD24_13.jpg.html>

I eventually shot 24 rolls of B&W, some slides, and a few Stereo Realist
pictures of the building, and have three pieces of the terra cotta
decoration in my basement.
-- 
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


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