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Subject: [Leica] Nathan Noshes at the "No Name" & Boston Redevelopment
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 18:36:52 -0400
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Thanks Jim.  Nathan liked it, too.  That's the acid test.  ;-)  

Regards, 

Dick



On May 24, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:

> Nice photos, Dick.  That is one of the best portraits of Nathan that I 
> have seen.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Taylor" <r.s.taylor at 
> comcast.net>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 12:50 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Nathan Noshes at the "No Name" & Boston Redevelopment
> 
> 
>> As Nathan mentioned in an earlier post, we met for the first time 
>> yesterday evening for dinner and drinks and had a fine time.
>> 
>> We ate at the "No Name" restaurant across the street from his hotel.  The 
>> "No Name" was originally a diner for the fishermen working on Fish Pier 
>> that, like the nearby Durgin Park restaurant, has, with redevelopment, 
>> become a tourist destination.  When it opened in 1917 there was literally 
>> no sign out front identifying it and over the years it developed a 
>> reputation for serving the finest seafood in town.
>> 
>> Here's Nathan showing off his new 7-14 zoom.
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/BOSTON/P1010225.jpg.html
>> or
>> http://tinyurl.com/3yvtjab
>> 
>> ... and the upstairs dining room at the No Name.
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/BOSTON/P1010230.jpg.html
>> or
>> http://tinyurl.com/2d94s6a
>> 
>> It was something of a shock to revisit this part of Boston for the first 
>> time in a couple of decades.  If it hadn't been for the familiarity of 
>> the harbor I could have been anywhere.   All the ramshackle old 
>> factories, warehouses, small restaurants, run-down piers, and parking 
>> lots that screamed "Boston Waterfront" have been replaced by the now 
>> commonplace sterile glass, steel, and brick hotels and offices; parking 
>> towers; and (mostly) chain restaurants.
>> 
>> Historic Fish Pier is still there and appears still to be a working pier, 
>> though a suspiciously clean one to my eye, and the grundgy commercial 
>> fishing boats seem seriously out of place among the spanking clean 
>> buildings and tour boats.
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/BOSTON/P1010241.jpg.html
>> or
>> http://tinyurl.com/27fk4cc
>> 
>> All taken with the GF-1 and 7-14 f4.0 Lumix zoom.
>> 
>> C&C always welcome.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Dick
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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