Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 3/28/02 10:07:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, drpuritz@bellsouth.net writes: > Lawyers? > Elliot > > > > > Just found an ad: E. Leitz, Inc. 1947 > > > > Leica IIIc with 50 mm. f/2 Summitar $392.00 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > And this was at a time when the average American made > > less than $60.00 a week. I think we know who the intended > > market was........ > Don't be a wise-axx, Doctor (I can say this to Elliot: we have an off-list friendship and he knows I'm kidding), when I started as a working lawyer in 1955 after seven expensive years of undergraduate and graduate study, I was taking home just over $100. a week. Seth LaK 9 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html