[Leica] IMG: Same Scene 1967 & 2016

[imra at iol.ie (Douglas Barry)]

While the ad on the side of the building shows scotch whisky (Cutty Sark) 
back then, implying more discriminatory tastes, the later shot has beer ads 
(Busch & Guinness) implying a slippage in the local demographic. Then you 
look again and see the new balconies - gentification surely. It's a 
comparison of eras that nonplusses....

Douglas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Magayne-Roshak" <amr3 at uwmalumni.com>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 3:40 AM
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Same Scene 1967 & 2016


> In digitizing some of my archive of negatives and slides, I've found 
> images
> without complete information.  One picture that had vexed me was of a 
> truck
> hauling a huge girder for an expressway bridge that I shot in 1967.  I was
> pretty sure I took it just south of downtown (called the Third Ward) and I
> was going to cruise around there to see if I could find the location.
> Well, on Saturday I was in that area for a vintage motorcycle show, and
> thought the buildings near Pittsburgh Avenue looked familiar.  I shot some
> frames with my Lumix and it was the right place.  There is even a sign for
> a different bar in the upper right corner (I composed from memory, but got
> pretty close).
>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Time+Lapse/19670325_MR_HIST_2A.jpg.html
>>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Time+Lapse/20160220_MR_Mine_LMX1020789.jpg.html
>>
>
> I took the original photo with my first reflex camera - an Asahiflex that
> had a waist-level finder plus an optical finder for a 50mm lens.  The
> camera was old when I got it and when the temperature was below 50F the
> shutter got cranky and the mirror would not return to the down position. 
> I
> got used to unscrewing the lens and pulling the mirror down with my
> fingernail after each shot.  I eventually sold this camera to the regional
> Pentax rep to help finance the purchase of my first M3, a second-hand one
> that I used for 40 years (my favorite camera ever).
>
> -- 
> 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
>
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