Warning. "Dreaming can be hazardous to your health these days" , Max
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, Trish Dougherty <purrfectharmonyfarm@...> wrote:
>
> My dad always had a Leica 35mm. We've got boxes and boxes of slides of
> family & his work. Some b&w, some in much later years are in color!
>
> No reason you can't dream. You never know what you might come across. I
> worked with a woman back in the mid 80's that drove a boat of a MB. I said
> "That's my next car". So it wasn't exactly my next car, but I do have one
> now! :)
>
> Trish
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Chip <czulli@...> wrote:
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> > **
> >
> >
> > So I would look at National Geographics of the mid-50's, either at school,
> > or the doctors office or my grandmothers house. At times I would look at
> > them when no one was around and I could look in private, but that is not
> > what this post is about.
> >
> > It is about those wonderful, classy, black and white pictures of the
> > mid-50's high buck Mercedes. There was the 220s, the 190SL, 300SL and those
> > giant limos. Almost forgot that wonderful 220 cabriolet convertible.
> >
> > Someone should have told me that I was never going to grow up and actually
> > be able to own one of these cars, at least not until they were total pieces
> > of junk. But I lived the better part of my life out with that hope seared in
> > me by those damn National Geographics.
> >
> > Don't get me started on the pictures of the Zenith Transoceanic radio's or
> > all those great Leica 35mm.
> >
> > I should have been more focused on the pictures of jungle life in Africa.
> >
> > Chip
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Trish Dougherty
> PurrFect Harmony Farm
> Ennis, TX
> http:/purrfectharmonyfarm.intuitwebsites.com
>
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