Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/16

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Subject: [Leica] First camera
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 23:26:24 -0500
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:18 PM, LeoWesson <leowesson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sonny, I wonder if I found your camera. What year?  I'm guessing I found it
> in 1980.  Side of the road heading north just before the k mart exit.
>

No, this had to be earlier. I got married to my wonderful Kathy in 1980, and
I had an Oldsmobile Cutlass wagon by then.



>
> On Sep 16, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:42 PM, leo wesson <leowesson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> My cameras up to and through my 20's.
> >>
> >> Minolta SRT 101 (found by the side of the highway north of Wichita
> >>
> > Falls, Tx.
> >>
> >
> > My second camera was a Minolta SRT 101.   I had it until I had a flat on
> my
> > VW Microbus on  the side of the Highway 281 north of Wichita Falls in
> > Texas.  My first wife was laughing and taking pictures of me sweating and
> > trying to change the flat with that stupid jack with a round bottom  in
> the
> > sand.  I finally got it changed after sticking a rock under the jack.
> >
> >    We finally got it done and drove away.  The next day, I asked where
> the
> > camera was, and she couldn't tell me. I didn't divorce her over that, but
> I
> > should have.  I wish I still had that camera, but I'm glad I don't have
> her
> > and the VW Microbus.
> >
> >    Have you ever crossed Texas in a VW Microbus?  It is about like having
> a
> > whole ham and only two people to eat it.
> >
> >    Eternity.
> >
> >
> > Sonny
> >
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-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana

USA


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