Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey Bob! I intended to refer not to your age but to my youth. ;-) S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Adler" <rgacpa@yahoo.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 7:11 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] closing bell > Well I'm not as old as you imply Seth. Just grew up in a part of the > country where I guess they kept this kind of delivery going longer than > most metro areas... > > > Great story about your first camera; my guess is we're pretty close in age > as my allowance was $0.25/week also (at the age of 8ish....). > Best, > Bob > Bob Adler > Palo Alto, CA > http://www.raflexions.com > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Seth Rosner <sethrosner@nycap.rr.com> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 11:46:02 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] closing bell > > I'm much too young to remember horse-drawn milk wagons tho' I do remember > milk bottles with a big bulge in the neck where the cream collected. But I > must be older than Ted - naw, Seth, no one is olde than Ted - because I > never got more than a quarter for shoveling snow from neighbors' driveways > and I never, ever, found that rich neighbor who paid double. In fact, my > dad > paid even less than a quarter for HIS driveway = $0.00. He called it > sharing > family chores. which included raking leaves in autumn. > > On the other hand, when I got home from the summer when he let me borrow > his > Leica IIIa w/ 50/2 Summar and asked him if I could buy his camera > (thinking > in my dreams that he would say: hey, son, it will be your next birthday > present), instead he expressed a willingness to sell it and to work out a > fair purchase price. It was my first effort at negotiation. We agreed on a > price - probably ten or fifteen dollars - which, of course, I couldn't > afford to pay cash and that led to the second negotiation of my life, a > hire-purchase arrangement. With a weekly allowance of $0.25 and none of > Ted > Grant's rich and generous neighbors, it took me mebbe two years to pay the > wretched thing off. But when I had done so, that camera meant so much more > to me than if Dad had simply given it to me, a lesson that I have carried > since. He was a very good and a very smart man. 'Course he was, we were > law > partners till he died. > > LaK9 > > Seth > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Adler" <rgacpa@yahoo.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 11:27 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] closing bell > > >>I think we all have such memories. I remember horse drawn milk delivery, >>catching and selling boiled blue crab for $1 a dozen, and being thrilled >>at >>getting a dollar for washing a car (and really washing it to meet the >>white >>glove test!). >> >> I wonder what my kids will remember... >> >> >> Funny, haven't thought of that stuff for awhile. Thanks for triggering >> those memories Seth and Ted. >> Best, >> Bob >> >> Bob Adler >> Palo Alto, CA >> http://www.raflexions.com >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> >> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 8:22:55 AM >> Subject: RE: [Leica] closing bell >> >> Hi Seth, >> >> And what wonderful fun it was when we were kids! :-) >> >> You could shovel the side walk of a home and earn .50! :-) Or the very >> odd >> time if it were a "rich" neighbour with a big sidewalk and driveway.. >> Make >> a >> "whole dollar!" >> >> >> >> Then who was the imagined "millionaire?" :-) >> >> >> >> There are such fond memories of snow and childhood! >> >> >> >> But as a senior?????????????? >> AaaaaaaaaaaaccccccccccccccccKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!! >> :-) >> >> >> >> ted >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org >> [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Seth >> Rosner >> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 4:20 AM >> To: Leica Users Group >> Subject: Re: [Leica] closing bell >> >> >> >> I feel like a closing bell. Here in the North Country, as I write this >> the >> >> air temp outside my window is -21 Celsius but I make myself happy by >> >> translating that into -6 F. Haven't wanted to ascertain what the >> windchill >> >> temp is. And that's the good news; the bad news is that there is a severe >> >> winter storm watch brewing: 6-12" of fresh snow expected to fall between >> 4 >> >> this afternoon and noon tomorrow. Full moon is at 0328GMT tomorrow >> morning >> >> but it certainly looked like a full moon setting when I awakened at 4:30 >> >> this morning. :-) >> >> >> >> Ta, >> >> >> >> Seth >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Leica Users Group. >> >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> >> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >> >> Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.5/1885 - Release Date: 1/9/2009 >> 7:59 PM >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.5/1885 - Release Date: 1/9/2009 > 7:59 PM > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. 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