On Mar 18, 2011, at 6:26 AM, David J Brooks wrote: > What were you doing 35 years ago about this time.??
Thinking about this question made me feel old. Some of the answers made me feel young, some made me feel even older. A few years previously we had moved from 2-3 miles from where it turns out a kid named Steve Cottrell was raising ruckus, to the place I'm currently buying from my mom, near Santa Cruz. A couple of people mentioned VW bugs, It was about this time of year that I got my learner's permit, and Dad and I would occasionally head to the parking lot at the school where I'd try to learn to drive a clutch, in a VW Thing. I was a sophomore in high school, and was active in the Brotherhood of Natural Philosophers, Chemistry and Physics Affiliated, and would hang out at the house of the club advisor, on P.Q. Boomer, who for a couple decades had let the kids come up to his place, have water fights, build a castle, towers and a pipe organ that I was eventually involved in converting from electro-mechanical operation to pure tracker action. http://home.comcast.net/~pqboom/tour/tour.html Photographically, I was spending a fair chunk of time in Dad's and my darkroom. My photographic kit consisted of a Minolta SRT-101 with a 58/1.4 lens, a 2x teleconverter and a polarizer. I'd occasionally borrow my dads Spotty II. I didn't like his camera as much as mine, since mine could meter without stopping down the lens. I did, however, like his Vivitar Series I, 70-210. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
