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Here`s the original E. Leitz NY Christmas camera ad from the Winter Issue of Leica Photography Magazine 1951 - remembering back when times were just a little more simplier and a big thing like a new camera could make a world of difference to someone with a creative mind......

With this I want to wish everyone here at RFF together with their familles and loved one`s a Happy and Healthy Holiday season

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah or whatever Holiday you celebrate 🙂

Here`s wishing you and yours Peace and Love and a Happy New Year of 2008


Tom

PS: and don`t forget to take lot`s of pictures with your screw mount Leica this Holiday!!!!! 😀
 
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mike goldberg said:
Hi there Tom,
Does a CLA on a IIIf done by Youxin Ye count? 😉
And, Hanukkah begins this week...
Peace & happy holidays,
Mike, Jerusalem
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A CLA by Youxin is another WONDERFUL gift for Christmas, yes and thank you I`m adding Hanukkah to my greetings as well

Take care and have a lovely holiday

Tom
 
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LeicaTom said:
...back when times were just a little more simplier...
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Actually, those times were just as complex as today, but most people didn't know it.

I was 3, so I remember everything in vivid detail. 😉
 
Thanks a lot for the cute note, Tom! And that photo is great! The guy is looking at the camera more than to the beautiful woman who gave it to him... quite a gear head! 🙂
 
SolaresLarrave said:
Thanks a lot for the cute note, Tom! And that photo is great! The guy is looking at the camera more than to the beautiful woman who gave it to him... quite a gear head! 🙂
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I'm sure it was already too racy for many folks back then. Those Europeans with their nonpuritan ways tsk tsk tsk 😉

A Leica for Christmas (Festivus, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, etc. etc. etc.) would be just as good if my s.o. would be wearing it on her neck, and nothing else 😀
 
Gabriel M.A. said:
wearing it on her neck, and nothing else 😀
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*sounds like a few photoshoots I`ve had before....my IIF BD will be the next victim for the art nude pinup prop 🙂 *

Yep, I really like that ad it`s cute and has all the 1950`s kitsch we all love

Tom
 
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wgerrard said:
Actually, those times were just as complex as today, but most people didn't know it.

I was 3, so I remember everything in vivid detail. 😉
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I don't remember it much at all...my dad was 6!
🙂
Still doesn't change the fact that a Leica is still a great Yule gift (or indeed a great gift for Christimas, Chanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus or Hogswatch!)
 
vrgard said:
Hey Gabriel, would that make you a gear fondler? 😉
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If my cameras came that way (heh), you bet that'd make me a gear fondler! 🙂

LeicaTom said:
*sounds like a few photoshoots I`ve had before....my IIF BD will be the next victim for the art nude pinup prop 🙂 *

Yep, I really like that ad it`s cute and has all the 1950`s kitsch we all love
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Cool; would love to see it. Well, I guess the 1950s U.S. kitsch is no match for what's being cranked out from the former Soviet bloc. At least the 1950s kitsch is incurably cheesy and full of "naivitee", but specially the kitschy nudes with "noir" undercurrents is just incurably gaudy and empty. My twopence, anyway.
 
My tastes are so arcane and ridiculously technical - I bought a IIIc body and asked my brother to just wrap it and give it to me on Christmas. . . So I'll be getting my first Christmas Leica this year.

Paul
 
rbiemer said:
Why does this couple have the same haircut?
Rob
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Because short hair styles on women were the modern vogue in 1951, elegant and less maintenance, also helps to have the right bone structure for it as well - on some women it looks amazing (like on this one) there was a revival of short hair on women in the early 1950`s in America and with Jean - Luc Godard`s "Breathless" made in 1959 the beautiful French speaking American actress
Jean Seberg, convinced half of Paris`s young women to follow suit and cut off their long locks as well.......

Tom
 
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