Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/20

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Vintage store closing
From: lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin)
Date: Fri Oct 20 10:03:21 2006
References: <200610201531.k9KFVGVW096539@server1.waverley.reid.org>

Sad to hear. I bought my first Leica there, a very well used pre WW2  
IIIc a couple of weeks after the store opened. It had been traded in  
on a Kodak 620 Reflex camera.

Larry Z


On Oct 20, 2006, at 11:31 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

> From: bill h <vintagebill@verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] RIP - A sad note re survival of film and
>       traditionalism
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
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> The place always had a great smell, too -- fixer, stop bath... and  
> a great box of cases, connectors and odds and ends you could  
> sometimes get for nothing. As much to do with the homoginization  
> (is there such a word?) of Harvard Square as the homoginization of  
> cameras. Many dreams began and ended there.
>
> bill
>
>
>> From: "B. D. Colen" <bd@bdcolenphoto.com>
>> Date: 2006/10/20 Fri AM 09:21:44 CDT
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Subject: [Leica] RIP - A sad note re survival of film and  
>> traditionalism
>
>> Ferranti-Degge, a camera store/processing lab one block from  
>> Harvard Square
>> has closed its doors after 51 years. The window of F-G was always  
>> a place to
>> look for used equipment, and it was a local fixture for anyone  
>> interested in
>> photography. But when I walked by yesterday, pausing to check the  
>> window, I
>> found it empty - and a notice posted announcing the store's demise.
>>