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[OM] Re: Retro Look and Starbucks

Subject: [OM] Re: Retro Look and Starbucks
From: DAVDOU9211@xxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:25:30 EST
Har de Har Har Har!!!

I love it.  I went into a Starbucks here in San Diego carrying my Morgan Sparks 
clad OM-1, naked of it't Never-Ready case with a 28/2.8 and hood on it.  I was 
not trying to "make a statement" and did not wear my boat shoes with no socks 
and cable knit wool sweater and chinos.

I was sitting at a table reading FORBES when a fellow sauntered over and wanted 
to know what kind of old camera that was.  I said an Olympus OM-1.  He pointed 
out that all Olympus cameras were black and that mine was obviously a very rare 
and strange item.  He was carrying a N...n wunderbrick that must have weighed 5 
pounds. I agreed that it was rare and perhaps strange, not unlike it's owner.  
" Could he look through the viewfinder?"  "Wow, this thing is tiny and feel so 
nice in my hands."

He seemed disappointed that I didn't ask to look through the viewfinder of his 
N....n.  I was afraid I couldn't lift it.  He left with his Latte lugging the 
wunderbrick.  It was surreal.  I gotta go there more often, take a book by 
Studs Terkel or somesuch.  Staring through people is easy in my usual state of 
distraction.

Dave Dougherty


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