Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/03/26

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Wayback Pix 1968 - Demolished Train Depot Album
From: amr3 at uwmalumni.com (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 16:42:49 -0500

On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie>wrote:

>Interesting building, Alan, and a shame they knocked that campanile
>clock tower. They should have kept it, refurbished it, and incorporated
>it into the whatever new building was put up. You should take a new
>image from the exact spot you took this one
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildings/Demolished+
Buildings/Northwestern+Depot/19680210_MR_EMKE_NWD1A_2.jpg.html
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Buildings/Demolished+Buildings/Northwestern+Depot/19680210_MR_EMKE_NWD1A_2.jpg.html>
>using the same focal length lens with a car driving up the hill in the
>foreground like the original.
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I'll have to do that.  I'm going to look through my rolls for one from that
point just after the station was removed.

A group wanted to save the depot, but they didn't have funds and the
general apathetic opinion of leaders was - it's an old, ugly building not
worth the money.

-- 
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/

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