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Subject: [Leica] 1964 World's fair pics
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 21:54:41 -0500
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Dick,

Very nice collection of impressive images, well captured and well preserved. 
Thanks for sharing.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard S. Taylor" <r.s.taylor_post at comcast.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] 1964 World's fair pics


> OK, you've woken me from my long winter's hibernation...  I can't  believe 
> no one else on the LUG has pictures of the Fair.  Living in  NYC at the 
> time, I went to the Fair repeatedly for the two years it  was open and 
> shot more rolls of film than I care to remember, mostly  K25 and 
> Ektachrome 160 Tungsten.  My cameras were most likely my  Retina IIIc and 
> my Pentax Spotmatic.
>
> Here's an album with a sampling of six - all handheld as I recall.  I  can 
> probably be induced to post a few more if there's interest.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/1964+WORLDS+FAIR/
>
> or
>
> http://tinyurl.com/ayfwzb
>
> Enjoy!  Happy Spring!
>
> Regards,
>
> Dick
> r.s.taylor_post at comcast.net
>
>
>
> On May 3, 2009, at 9:51 PM, Jim Shulman wrote:
>
>> I was there, but I didn't take pictures.  That was still about four 
>> years
>> before my first Instamatic.
>>
>> I remember riding up in my father's buddy's Austin Healey, which was  a 
>> real
>> thrill (even for a five year old.)  I recall the automatons of "It's  a 
>> Small
>> World", remember the picturephone (and was ticked that we wouldn't get
>> one!), recall riding on a huge corkscrew-type sliding board and  eating a
>> ginormous steak for dinner.
>>
>>
>> Jim Shulman
>> Wynnewood, PA
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of  
>> Doug
>> Herr
>> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 9:47 PM
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] 1964 World's fair pics
>>
>> Brian Reid wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> Was wondering if any of you were at the 1964 World's fair.
>>>> Did any of you take pictures?
>>>
>>> I was there. I took pictures. I don't know where they are. I shot 3M
>> transparency film
>>
>> Uh oh.  3M transparency film.  I'll bet you don't have the pictures  any 
>> more
>> even if the transparencies are found.
>>
>> Doug Herr
>> Birdman of Sacramento
>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>>
>>
>>
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