Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/11/27

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Subject: [Leica] Santa and Sleigh Made of Colored Lights
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 20:12:15 -0600
References: <D460EBE9.7E564%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

Beautiful work and photographs, Chris.  Thanks for the story and the images.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 11/27/2016 7:00 PM, Christopher Crawford wrote:
> Originally built in the late 1930s to adorn the side of a downtown
> department store, this 150 foot long Santa and Sleigh was lost after the
> store closed around 1970 and was rediscovered rotting away in a warehouse a
> decade later. My grandfather, John Westerfield, was one of the local
> electricians who donated his time to restore it with modern electrical
> components in the early 80s. Since then, it has been displayed on the side
> of one of Fort Wayne?s tall buildings every year.
>
> I made two photos of it last night, just 8 minutes apart, but greatly
> different in light, as the day was fading away fast.
>
> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=2569
>
>
> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?product=2568
>
>



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