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Subject: [Leica] one final thing from Granite
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:31:14 -0500
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Thanks for the update, Sonny.  Love the old trapezoidal TN license plate. 
Haven't seen one in a while.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 7:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] one final thing from Granite


>I found one here.  It is a body shop, now.  The IOOF hall, probably
> upstairs.
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/courthouselover/3209049488/sizes/l/in/photostream/
>
> small 
> url<http://www.flickr.com/photos/courthouselover/3209049488/sizes/l/in/photostream/>
>
> I remember the Kaiser Car.  When I was about five or six, my Dad, fresh 
> out
> of the Army Air Force was a mechanic at a Kaiser-Frazer dealership in
> Shreveport.
>
> The model I remember the most was the Henry J.
>
> Compact compared to others, I suppose it was about the size as a
> Studebaker. They came in other colors, but blue was what I remember.
>
> http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-1950-1959/1951-Kaiser-Henry-J.jpg
>
> small 
> url<http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-1950-1959/1951-Kaiser-Henry-J.jpg>
>
> I recall a re badged version sold at Sears.
>
> http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/data/jaynjay/200811189275_53_Allstate_Coupe_DV-06_ARM_02.jpg
>
> small 
> url<http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/data/jaynjay/200811189275_53_Allstate_Coupe_DV-06_ARM_02.jpg>
>
> Kaiser was the principle in Kaiser Aluminum, and also built Liberty ships
> in WWII.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Robert Baron 
> <robertbaron1 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Dunno, Jim.  Maybe a motorcycle shop?
>>
>> I'll see if I have a closer shot.
>>
>> --Bob
>>
>> ==On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > Bob,
>> >
>> > Your Kaiser-Frazer sign took me back a few years.  A dealership opened 
>> > in
>> > my home town in Mississippi in 1947 or 1948.
>> >
>> > What goes on behind this sign in Granite?
>> >
>> > Jim Nichols
>> > Tullahoma, TN USA
>> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Baron" <
>> robertbaron1 at gmail.com>
>> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> > Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 7:30 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [Leica] one final thing from Granite
>> >
>> >
>> >  Now you made me look through mine:
>> >>
>> >> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/Bob+Baron/W_MG_0414.jpg.**html<
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bob+Baron/W_MG_0414.jpg.html>
>> >>
>> >> Canon 5D, 70-300 at 130mm, ISO 400
>> >>
>> >> --Bob
>> >>
>> >> ==On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> 
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>  Here is the quarry at, ahmm, Granite.  Looking through some old stuff
>> >>> this
>> >>> afternoon.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/kcarney/quarry_scan.jpg.**html<
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kcarney/quarry_scan.jpg.html>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> 15mm Heliar, Kodak 400CN b&w.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Ken
>> >>>
>> >>>
>>
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>
>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
>
> Sonny
> http://sonc.com/look/
> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>
> USA
>
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