Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well that's good to know, Harrison; though I didn't asy my dad said the Japanese 'created' the town for the purpose of deception which is the rumor that Snope debunks. Wonder if there is evidence that Usa ws not a manufacturing town. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harrison McClary" <lists@mcclary.net> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:14 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: China, Japan, Thailand, etc. > False: > > http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/usa.asp > > > On 2/5/09 11:01 AM, Seth Rosner wrote: >> >> I recall, as a kid, my dad telling me - and I don't know to this day if >> it is/was fact or apocryphal - that before WWII there was a Japanese town >> called Usa where much manufacture was done, so that they could mark >> products: "made in Usa" > > > -- > Harrison Mcclary > > Harrison McClary Photography > (615) 331-7794 > harrison@mcclary.net > http://www.mcclary.net > ImageStockSouth: > Stock photography from the Southern USA > http://www.imagestocksouth.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information