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Subject: [Leica] blast from the past
From: jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon Jul 7 13:29:50 2008
References: <1be504db0807071316g6d15f3bfh563fc97642ad5490@mail.gmail.com>

Phil,

Very good photos.  Thanks for sharing.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Swango" <pswango@att.net>
To: "LUG" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 3:16 PM
Subject: [Leica] blast from the past


>I was going through some old storage boxes and ran across some negatives
> from VN that I thought had been lost, though I still have the contact
> sheets.  One set was taken when Nancy Sinatra was doing a USO tour in late
> '66 and visited our post just outside of Saigon.  I managed to find my way
> into where she was hanging out backstage and got a few pictures.  IIRC, 
> the
> camera would have been an M3 and 50mm Summicron: http://tinyurl.com/5uu3wu
>
> They're nothing to shout about but I'm glad I found them anyway.  My
> daughter will enjoy them I'm sure.  You can't tell from the photos but her
> dress and boots were bright pink.  Nancy would been 26 at the time, same 
> age
> as I was.  Her wiki article mentions the USO tour in 66-7.
>
> -- 
> Phil Swango
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> Albuquerque, NM 87108
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