[Leica] Where New Haven is

[pmcc_2000 at yahoo.com (Peter M. C. Choy)]

As a student I worked for a New Haven born-and-bred
Red Sox fan, one Bart Giamatti. When Bart was a 
college (Yale's version of a dorm) master, I served 
as his aide assigned to maintain the college darkroom
as part of my financial aid package. Thus I first
learned about photography to help finance tuition, 
and once I could afford an old screwmount Leica 
(which were then a glut on the market) I started 
taking a few pictures of my own. I had occasion 
to show them to a superannuated magazine editor 
who had a sweet retirement gig teaching part time 
in the art school, one Walker Evans. I blithely
declined a suggestion to study with him in favor of
preparing for a real job (*hah*). Bart went on to a
real job of his own as president of Yale, but his 
last and toughest gig was as Commissioner of Baseball.
In addition to his lyrical contributions to the
literature of the game, he is remembered by many and
reviled by some as the man who expelled Pete Rose
from baseball. He was also Paul Giamatti's dad, the 
guy in the movie Sideways, whom I remember as one of
three little kids romping around the college grounds.

Since then my own kids have found their way to New
Haven, and one of them now helps offset her old man's
expenses by working as a student assistant in Yale's
main undergraduate darkroom.  Coincidentally, the
master of her college is a big Yankees fan, and takes
like-minded students out for excursions to Yankee
stadium.  So I've arranged my life to get to visit 
New Haven and take my daughter out for Wooster Square
pizza, the best there is. And yes, my daughter uses 
an M6, and I taught her how to use it, to develop 
and print while she was in high school, so this is
on-topic.

Peter.
SF, CA

--- Jim Hemenway <Jim@hemenway.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Douglas Nygren wrote:
> 
> > You ask, where is New Haven?
> > 
> > New Haven is 90 minutes east of Lincoln Center and
> Carnegie Hall, 2 
> > hours and 45 minutes west of a school in
> Cambridge, Mass., whose name is 
> > unmentionable. It lies along the divide between
> the Yanks and the Sox 
> > (don't you dare ask who they are), and it is the
> home of the best pizza 
> > in the U.S., and if that is not enough, it is home
> to a great Leica 
> > repairman.
> > 
> > All this means is that you can send your kid to
> Yale for an education,
> 
> It's all skulls and bones!
> 
> > come to visit and eat pizza or the great Italian
> food here
> 
> http://www.hiddenboston.com/Sullivans.html
> 
>
http://www.planet99.com/boston/restaurants/14595.html
> 
> 
>   and have your
> > Leica repaired while you listen in to the local
> argue about baseball.
> > 
> > Doug Nygren
> > 
> 
> And once again, the Yanks are who?
> 
> :-)
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
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