Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/02

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Subject: [Leica] Swastika Laundry
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:02:08 -0700
References: <0B63C9D826AB4DDFAD1F2306A7D0B55C@Family> <4A4C17D5.2040900@san.rr.com> <7ac27f4f0907011943gee5fad4tbc41b6322ae75db4@mail.gmail.com> <144DEC7AF67E9B220B92B3B4@hindolveston.reid.org> <4A4D2CA7.3070407@san.rr.com>

> You mean that the photo of that van was taken in 1912?  You are FOS! :-)

No, I mean that the Swastika Laundry was founded in 1912 and started using 
that logo in 1912. They weren't happy that the Nazis stole their logo, but 
they weren't about to rebrand their company just because some distant 
lunatic started abusing their image.




Replies: Reply from imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry) ([Leica] Swastika Laundry)
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Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Swastika Laundry)
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