Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/18

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Subject: [Leica] Re:Forbidden building
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)
Date: Mon Jun 18 22:06:29 2007
References: <369574.40486.qm@web34208.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Any photos of this around? Would be cool to see.

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Biava" Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Forbidden building


>I was not around to see it, but new American submarines were built in 
>Wisconsin and traveled down the Mississippi to the Gulf on 
>their way to the war.  And that's a fact....
>
>
>  ( But to tell "the rest of the story" they were transported on river 
> barges.)    {8o)
>
> Christopher Williams <leicachris@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>  During WWII, Germans living in New Orleans(including ambassadors) were 
> using their cameras(on fishing trips) to photograph the
> waterways in and around the mouth of the Mississippi River. Of course now 
> we know there was no way a U-Boat could get into the 
> Miss
> River but they had excellent targets at the mouth of the river to shoot at 
> for 2 years before we actually did something about it.
>
> I've never had any problems here photographing bridges, but like Jeff 
> pointed out, the local gov does not like their refineries
> photographed.
>
> Chris


Replies: Reply from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] Re:Forbidden building)
In reply to: Message from leicam4pro at yahoo.com (John Biava) ([Leica] Re:Forbidden building)