[Leica] Old times in Washington, DC

[Ken Firestone <kenf@speakeasy.net>]

I was at Maryland from 60-62, and 64-67. I always did my own B&W
becaues I couldn't afford to send it out. I left the area in 67, after
I graduated. But I would come back to visit my parents. On one of
those visits I did stop by Images. Mr. Okamoto (not sure of the
spelling) was looking at portfolios, and I had a nice afternoon
chatting with him. The 21 I mentioned has a sort of WH connection. Its
previous owner, Ollie Atkins, later became Richard Nixon's
photographer.




On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, bdcolen wrote:

   Good Lord! When were you at Maryland? I was at GW from 66-70. And of
   course I went to National Camera Repair...and to that fantastic black
   and white lab - Images - that was started by LBJ's WH photographer and
   someone else...It was in that same block of Penna. Ave...
   
   
   -----Original Message-----
   From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
   [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Ken
   Firestone
   Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 4:15 PM
   To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
   Subject: RE: [Leica] Is that jerk cassidy stil doing a PAW?
   
   
   On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, bdcolen wrote:
   
      Yup - George Washington University. I wasn't on the Cherry Tree ;-)
      staff, I was the Exec. News Editor of The Hatchet - another ;-) - the
      student newspaper.
   
   I was at University of Maryland. Took pictures and sometimes wrote for
   the Diamondback, and got to edit the Terrapin one year.
   
      
      Why no Leica? I'd abandoned my IIIc for the SLR - and didn't return
   to
      Leica until the mid-70s. I've always been an on-again/off-again Leica
      guy, who each time he leaves, eventually regrets the move, and pays
      twice as much to get back into the club.
   
   I guess I was lucky. Maryland owned an M2 and an M3 for some of the time
   I was there. And I got my parents to bring an M2 home from Europe, and I
   managed to aquire a few lenses, including an early screw mount 21.
   
   BTW BD, did you go to National Camera Repairs on Pa. Ave?
   
      
      And on top of all that I was doing far more writing than shooting at
      that point, and continued to do so for a couple decades there after.
      
      B. D.
      
      -----Original Message-----
      From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
      [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Ken
      Firestone
      Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:22 PM
      To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
      Subject: RE: [Leica] Is that jerk cassidy stil doing a PAW?
      
      
      On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, bdcolen wrote:
      
         Kyle's great Howard Dean shot reminded me of something - and sent
   me
         looking for the 1969 GWU yearbook - and the flatbed..
         http://www.leica-gallery.net/bdcolen/image-50912.html
         
         As cropped in the yearbook...late October, 1968. Undoubtedly shot
   on
         Tri-X - was there any other film? - with a Pentax and Vivitar
   Series
      1
         28 lens - those of you who only look at Leica images, avert your
      eyes!
         :-)
      
      So you were doing yearbook stuff in 1969, huh? I assume GWU is George
      Washington University?
      
      And why weren't you using a Leica then? When I did my yearbook stint,
   a
      few years earlier, I managed to use my M2 quite a bit. (pictures
   later)
      
    
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