Review (2):Strange Days, Dangerous Nights: Photos from the Speed Graphics Era; Millett, Sandford

Nothing to do with the Speed Graphic camera


I bought this book on prepurchase with the idea that it would largely
concern itself with the Speed Graphic camera. I grew up in New York and
met Weegee, and other famous users of the old Graphic (and a few of its
subjects too: need I drop any names when two initials suffice: MM!) and
always wanted to use one, but by the time i was old enough to buy a
real camera the Nikon F had replaced the Graphics completely.

It's a book on fifties era Minneapolis, "as seen through" the Speed
Graphic, not on the camera itself. I have no beef with Minneapolis, but
unless you live there, who else would care?

I donated it to the library here in New Jersey. The photos are
excellent, if you want to know what happened in Minneapolis. Maybe
someone does.

In article . com,
"Paul" wrote:

Nothing to do with the Speed Graphic camera


I bought this book on prepurchase with the idea that it would largely
concern itself with the Speed Graphic camera. I grew up in New York and
met Weegee, and other famous users of the old Graphic (and a few of its
subjects too: need I drop any names when two initials suffice: MM!) and
always wanted to use one, but by the time i was old enough to buy a
real camera the Nikon F had replaced the Graphics completely.

It's a book on fifties era Minneapolis, "as seen through" the Speed
Graphic, not on the camera itself. I have no beef with Minneapolis, but
unless you live there, who else would care?

I donated it to the library here in New Jersey. The photos are
excellent, if you want to know what happened in Minneapolis. Maybe
someone does.

Is this a feeble attempt at a troll? Since its cross posted 9 out of 10
people would say yes. In my book its another pointless post from another
nameless nobody. I hope it made you feel better.
--
LOL.

In article . com,
"Paul" wrote:

Nothing to do with the Speed Graphic camera


I bought this book on prepurchase with the idea that it would largely
concern itself with the Speed Graphic camera. I grew up in New York and
met Weegee, and other famous users of the old Graphic (and a few of its
subjects too: need I drop any names when two initials suffice: MM!) and
always wanted to use one, but by the time i was old enough to buy a
real camera the Nikon F had replaced the Graphics completely.

It's a book on fifties era Minneapolis, "as seen through" the Speed
Graphic, not on the camera itself. I have no beef with Minneapolis, but
unless you live there, who else would care?

I donated it to the library here in New Jersey. The photos are
excellent, if you want to know what happened in Minneapolis. Maybe
someone does.

Is this a feeble attempt at a troll? Since its cross posted 9 out of 10
people would say yes. In my book its another pointless post from another
nameless nobody. I hope it made you feel better.
--
LOL.

"Paul" wrote in message
ups.com...

It's a book on fifties era Minneapolis, "as seen through" the Speed
Graphic, not on the camera itself. I have no beef with Minneapolis, but
unless you live there, who else would care?

So, another provincial NYNYker bites the killfile.

"Paul" wrote in message
ups.com...

It's a book on fifties era Minneapolis, "as seen through" the Speed
Graphic, not on the camera itself. I have no beef with Minneapolis, but
unless you live there, who else would care?

So, another provincial NYNYker bites the killfile.

"Paul" writes:

Nothing to do with the Speed Graphic camera


I bought this book on prepurchase with the idea that it would largely
concern itself with the Speed Graphic camera. I grew up in New York and
met Weegee, and other famous users of the old Graphic (and a few of its
subjects too: need I drop any names when two initials suffice: MM!) and
always wanted to use one, but by the time i was old enough to buy a
real camera the Nikon F had replaced the Graphics completely.

It's a book on fifties era Minneapolis, "as seen through" the Speed
Graphic, not on the camera itself. I have no beef with Minneapolis, but
unless you live there, who else would care?

I donated it to the library here in New Jersey. The photos are
excellent, if you want to know what happened in Minneapolis. Maybe
someone does.

You got that right. If there's one thing I hate it's books
about places different from where I live.

Bruce

"Bruce McGuffin" wrote in message
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"Paul" writes:

Nothing to do with the Speed Graphic camera


I bought this book on prepurchase with the idea that it would largely
concern itself with the Speed Graphic camera. I grew up in New York and
met Weegee, and other famous users of the old Graphic (and a few of its
subjects too: need I drop any names when two initials suffice: MM!) and
always wanted to use one, but by the time i was old enough to buy a
real camera the Nikon F had replaced the Graphics completely.

It's a book on fifties era Minneapolis, "as seen through" the Speed
Graphic, not on the camera itself. I have no beef with Minneapolis, but
unless you live there, who else would care?

I donated it to the library here in New Jersey. The photos are
excellent, if you want to know what happened in Minneapolis. Maybe
someone does.

You got that right. If there's one thing I hate it's books
about places different from where I live.

Bruce

ObCharacter: John Carter?

"herothatdied" writes:

"Bruce McGuffin" wrote in message
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"Paul" writes:

Nothing to do with the Speed Graphic camera


I bought this book on prepurchase with the idea that it would largely
concern itself with the Speed Graphic camera. I grew up in New York and
met Weegee, and other famous users of the old Graphic (and a few of its
subjects too: need I drop any names when two initials suffice: MM!) and
always wanted to use one, but by the time i was old enough to buy a
real camera the Nikon F had replaced the Graphics completely.

It's a book on fifties era Minneapolis, "as seen through" the Speed
Graphic, not on the camera itself. I have no beef with Minneapolis, but
unless you live there, who else would care?

I donated it to the library here in New Jersey. The photos are
excellent, if you want to know what happened in Minneapolis. Maybe
someone does.

You got that right. If there's one thing I hate it's books
about places different from where I live.

Bruce

ObCharacter: John Carter?

Of Mars?

"Bruce McGuffin" wrote in message
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"herothatdied" writes:


You got that right. If there's one thing I hate it's books
about places different from where I live.

Bruce

ObCharacter: John Carter?

Of Mars?

Well, that's where I was going with it. You're a nice-seeming fellow and
your posts are always well worth reading

(I liked this one, though I have to say, there is quite a difference between
reading about places foreign and exotic and reading about Minneapolis, and
if you tell me that you bought the Lonely Planet guide to the Twin Cities
the day it came out, or that you've perused libraries for _just_ the book
that finally answers all those questions you had about the qualities that
laid the ground for the 1980's Minneapolis theatre scene...)

- surveying the local population and running through probability tables, I
concluded that you couldn't possibly be from nowheah's 'round heah, and
inverse proportionality in vector-quantum-mechanics-thingyness being what it
is, and Burroughs being what he is, and bearing the burden of both turning
both my nightstand and my head into being what they are, I attempted a very
unfunny joke. Which I hope to have made up for now with that
"vector-quantum-mechanics-thingyness" bit of palaver. Such as it is.

You must forgive. Have spent holidays with an uncle who stops anyone who
will listen to tell them about his recent acquisition of one of Benjamin
Franklin's teeth, my mother, who wears power crystals and who voted for Bush
because he's so _western_ and so _in touch with the soil_, two cousins who
divide their time between watching Pat Buchannan on TIVO and growing their
own, and a brother whose favorite conversation-stopper is "want to fight?"
Plus the Burroughing. It's all making a chucklehead out of your own

htd

"herothatdied" writes:

"Bruce McGuffin" wrote in message
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"herothatdied" writes:


You got that right. If there's one thing I hate it's books
about places different from where I live.

Bruce

ObCharacter: John Carter?

Of Mars?

Well, that's where I was going with it. You're a nice-seeming fellow and
your posts are always well worth reading

And I've always found your judgement to be more than sound ...


(I liked this one, though I have to say, there is quite a difference between
reading about places foreign and exotic and reading about Minneapolis, and
if you tell me that you bought the Lonely Planet guide to the Twin Cities
the day it came out, or that you've perused libraries for _just_ the book
that finally answers all those questions you had about the qualities that
laid the ground for the 1980's Minneapolis theatre scene...)


I must confess I've had a special fondness for the greater
Minneapolis-St. Paul area going back to my formative years, when The
Cat in the Hat Beginner Book Dictionary first introduced me to the
concept of Minnetonka.

Bruce (I used to know the name of all the quad cities too, but lately
I blank on the one that isn't Rock Island, Davenport, or Moline)
McGuffin