Yeah I'm starting to get up there. Still can't believe that 50 is two
years in the rearview mirror. Even my Dad complains that he can't believe he
has a son as old as me. But I do remember enjoying those episodes of "Highway
Patrol" as a KID.
Great story about Brownie; sounds like he was a real character. I've
heard there as old guy on the staff of the Charleston Post & Courier who still
uses a Speed Graphic long after the rest have gone digital.
Charlie
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Walt Wayman
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 10:12 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Hurt feelings, disappointment, sniff, sniff...
Broderick Crawford, huh? You're showing your age too, Charlie. :-)
That picture was taken about 1962 or '63, best I recall. I came across the
negative, a 4x5, a couple of years ago while rummaging through some old boxes
of slides and negatives that I had apparently hidden from myself in the top of
a closet for many years. It is one of my favorite photos, not because it's of
me, but because of who shot it, one of my all time favorite old curmudgeons,
Brownie Colquitt, a staff newspaper photographer for the Knoxville Journal, the
now-defunct morning paper there, and a character right out of a Damon Runyon
tale.
I don't think I ever knew his real first name. He got the nickname from the 40
years he had toted his 4x5 Speed Graphic "Brownie" everywhere something
newsworthy was occurring. I was at the time of this picture a television news
photographer and reporter for the local NBC affiliate, and it was never a
surprise to arrive at the scene of some event and be greeted by the shout of
"No pictures! No pictures!" That had become Brownie's stock greeting, he
having heard it shouted at him so many times over the years.
He kept using the 4x5 long after other photographers had gone to Rolled or
Mamiya TLRs. The paper furnished him a Mamiya, but it mostly stayed in the
car. He was gruff and perpetually disheveled, always looking like he had just
gotten out of bed with the clothes he had on, but he was always ready to help
out the new kids in the game, never hesitating to advise that "You can get a
better shot from over there," or, "The body's in the back seat, but the head's
in the trunk."
I moved on a couple of years after this shot was taken, and I never heard when
Brownie took off for the big darkroom in the sky, but I betcha he's somewhere
up there, occasionally popping out of a cloud of cigarette smoke shouting "No
pictures! No pictures!"
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Geilfuss Charles" <Charles.Geilfuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Walt,
> That's a great old photo. As I look at it I keep expecting to see
> Broderick Crawford step into view.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Wayne S
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 9:23 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: Hurt feelings, disappointment, sniff, sniff...
>
>
> At 12:35 AM 3/24/2006, you wrote:
>
> >On 3/20/06, Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Sorry for not being as pretty as everybody expected. Somehow, after many
> years of being rode hard and put up wet, a fellow starts to realize that,
> like
> the ol' grey mare, he ain't what he used to be.
> >>
> >> http://home.att.net/~hiwayman/wsb/media/192375/site1098.jpg
> >>
> >> Sigh! I once was cool.
> >>
> >> Walt, feeling even more old and fat than before I started this
>
> Wow, I must have missed that one when the list blacklisting hiccups started.
> As they say, "Youth is wasted on the young."
>
> A handsome dude.
>
> WayneS
>
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