RE: [Leica] cleaning toilets and owning Leicas

["Jeffery Smith" <jsmith45@bellsouth.net>]

In San Diego, the Commissary seemed to deal in one brand name to the
exclusion of others, and the brand names seemed to change from time to
time. So, if you wanted a tape recorder, it as Akai. If you wanted a
receiver, it was Sansui. I don't know of anyone buying a Leica there,
but I know they had the Mamiya 500TL and the Yashica D. I know of
someone getting a Petri there too. Most of the cameras were more
"consumer" level than pro level.

Jeffery Smith

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Dans un courrier daté du 09/09/01 22:56:37 Paris, Madrid (heure d'été), 
jsmith45@bellsouth.net a écrit :

> The U.S. military does try to make the cost of living reasonable for 
> its  folks, and Leicas can be had for less money (my first Yashica D 
> was $35 new  at the Navy Exchange), but the two drag racers don't fit.
>  
>  Jeffery Smith
>  New Orleans, LA
>  
Yeah . Here in the French mil. , we don't get cameras for free , but hey
, we 
get a fair pay when we go overseas ( double in my case ) and when we fly
. Actually , it is those overseas , when I joined in , that allowed me
to pay 
for the Leica stuff , and the Drags .
On the other hand , some photo shops on base , a long time ago , were 
equipped with Leica , but where did those go ? I don't know .

JO GOODTIMES -FRANCE