Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]great sign! ric > On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:09 AM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwmalumni.com> > wrote: > > This week I became aware that the sign at the rear entrance to Camera > Center in Shorewood, made in the form of a Leica IIIf by Art Siemann > Advertising & Sign Company, was gone. The owner of the store told me he > sold it to a collector in Green Bay, after the man gave him a generous > offer. Evidently, there were two such signs at the shop's original > location a block away, before it had to move for the construction of an > office building around 1972. This is the store where I bought my first M3, > my IIIf, a Bessa II, Super-Speedex, Speed Graphic, and 4x5 RB Graflex. > > Here are three images of the sign over the years 1978 - 2014. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Signs/LeicaSign_1978_AMR.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Signs/LeicaSign_2008_AMR.jpg.html > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Signs/LeicaSign_2014_AMR.jpg.html > > I miss it. > -- > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services > (Retired) > UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978 > UPAA Master of the Profession 2014 > amr3 at uwm.edu > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate > for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information