dmr
Registered Abuser
Yes, I know who Bettie Page is.
Yes, I know how to properly spell her name. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Yes, I know how to properly spell her name. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Pablito
coco frío
Sparrow
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Al Kaplan
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I haven't seen Linda Lovelace in years. The Voager Motel where Deep Throat was filmed is now a dorm for Johnson and Wales University. College students way too young to have ever heard of the film now sleep in that bedroom. I keep kidding the university president that they should put up a bronze plaque on the dorm about that famous motion picture. The tavern on West Dixie Highway where she worked was torn down to make way for a strip mall. The house where she lived is still there but that's a whole other story.
I used to run into a former Playboy Playmate, Bunny Yeager, all the time at the photo supply. She became a well known photographer and she shot a lot of those Playboy centerfolds back in the sixties and seventies. She used a 120 twin lens reflex and Ektachrome. The studio where Miami Vice and Gentle Ben were headquartered is about a dozen blocks away from my house, as is Criteria, the music studio where dozens of top rock albums were recorded. This used to be a very happening town!
I used to run into a former Playboy Playmate, Bunny Yeager, all the time at the photo supply. She became a well known photographer and she shot a lot of those Playboy centerfolds back in the sixties and seventies. She used a 120 twin lens reflex and Ektachrome. The studio where Miami Vice and Gentle Ben were headquartered is about a dozen blocks away from my house, as is Criteria, the music studio where dozens of top rock albums were recorded. This used to be a very happening town!
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MickH
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Mr Kaplan, I don't think she's with us any longer. I remember something about her shuffling off this mortal coil earlier this century.
You certinly do live in a place with some recent history attached to it. Where I am all we have is Showaddywaddy & Gary Lineker.
WHO? 😕
Sparrow
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Well from the stats so far I can see that a shockingly high proportion of us don’t like beer, most of the membership is honest(I expected nothing less), potentially, 43 members were viewing pornography at work, and I can’t spill for toffee
Sparrow
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At times, we’ve had both Tim Page and Martin Parr living locally
Spoks
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what about a 'wine' alternative...?
Sparrow
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An alternative to wine, mmm lets see … beer?... maybe
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Chris101
summicronia
I find that hard to swallow.
Oh yeah, my answers: Yes I have an rf camera, yes I like beer, I know of Bettie Page, but I am too young to actually remember her, and no, being into German expressionism, I know all about those Bauhaus killjoys.
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ampguy
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Costco reservatrol/GSE bottles
Costco reservatrol/GSE bottles
Has the good stuff (Grape seed extract) and Reservatrol, without the alcohol.
Costco reservatrol/GSE bottles
Has the good stuff (Grape seed extract) and Reservatrol, without the alcohol.
Pickett Wilson
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Wait, I think it's Betty Boop I remember.
sebastel
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i ticked "i like beer" though i prefer chinese tea and spanish wine (french and italian too)
ampguy
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hmm
hmm
Interesting. I thought this stuff was done in the SF Valley, or in SF/Marin?
hmm
Interesting. I thought this stuff was done in the SF Valley, or in SF/Marin?
bgb
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Bettie Page - April 22, 1923 – December 11, 2008
Too young to remember her but i definitely know who she is 🙂
Grandfather started giving me beer at an early age ... like before i could walk, which might explain a few things 🙂
Too young to remember her but i definitely know who she is 🙂
Grandfather started giving me beer at an early age ... like before i could walk, which might explain a few things 🙂
dmr
Registered Abuser
I know the name Bunny Yeager well. (I always thought it was a stage name, word play on Rabbit Hunter, and I suspected her real surname might be Hasenjager or something like that.)
Anyway, I grew up with two brothers, who in their teens might be best described as "so horny they could honk", and between them they had quite the collection of Playboy and other "literature" of that ilk. I remember mentioning the name Bunny Yeager to Jay, my older brother, and he was quite familiar with her work, both in front of and behind the camera. (Hmmmm ... I thought she did mostly LF view camera sheet film stuff.)
The TLR photographer of that genre that I remember was Peter Gowland, who had his own design sheet film TLR, and eventually a similar LF SLR. Yes, he shot for Playboy too.
Sparrow
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sorry to disagree but there are only two types of beer, there's just beer and good beer
Al Kaplan
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I have no idea whether or not Bunny Yeager was her real name or not. I guess that I always kind of assumed that "Bunny" was a nickname but that's what everybody called her. I used to see her at Browne's Photo Center at 82nd St. and Biscayne Blvd. until Browne's closed, and then I'd run into her on occasion at Jaybo's, also a nickname, which started out as a custom lab owned by Jay Spencer, the former chief of photography at the Miami News. With Browne's closed Jay promptly expanded into pro cameras and a great selection of paper, film, and chemicals. Bunny shot mostly with a Mamiyaflex.
It's strange how we only shoot the stuff that we consider "important", and if we don't ignore the rest we don't save the negatives. It'd be nice to have some casual shots of Bunny chatting with Browne or Jay about a camera or some photos. Who thinks about shooting pictures of the clerks and owners of camera stores, labs, etc. with their customers? Someplace around I have some shots from the early 1960's of Murray and Leo, the owners of Zeff Photo Supply when they were in a second floor loft at 36 Bromfield St. in Boston and afew years ago, just before he closed, I got some shots in Dan's Camera Clinic here in Miami. Sometimes it was difficult dealing with the thick Swiss accent but there were times that while we were chatting he'd fiddle with a screwdriver for a few minutes, and hand the camera back with a smile and a "No charge. I didn't really do anything". Major repairs were usually done in a week at most, and at very reasonable prices.
It's strange how we only shoot the stuff that we consider "important", and if we don't ignore the rest we don't save the negatives. It'd be nice to have some casual shots of Bunny chatting with Browne or Jay about a camera or some photos. Who thinks about shooting pictures of the clerks and owners of camera stores, labs, etc. with their customers? Someplace around I have some shots from the early 1960's of Murray and Leo, the owners of Zeff Photo Supply when they were in a second floor loft at 36 Bromfield St. in Boston and afew years ago, just before he closed, I got some shots in Dan's Camera Clinic here in Miami. Sometimes it was difficult dealing with the thick Swiss accent but there were times that while we were chatting he'd fiddle with a screwdriver for a few minutes, and hand the camera back with a smile and a "No charge. I didn't really do anything". Major repairs were usually done in a week at most, and at very reasonable prices.
Sonnar2
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"Do you remember Betty Page?"
Do you remember Cynthia Myers ?
Do you remember Cynthia Myers ?
projectbluebird
Film Abuser
Yes to RF camera(s), liking beer and I didn't have to google Bauhaus. Picked up all three habits while in art school. Also, while being far too young to remember Betti Page, I do know who she was, and remember when she died. (quite recently) Come to think of it, I learned about her in school too.
The things young people learn about in college these days. *tut tut*
(tongue firmly in cheek)
The things young people learn about in college these days. *tut tut*
(tongue firmly in cheek)
