[PRCo] Re: My Website- August Edition

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Have you ever made a connection with Edward S. Miller, 155 Mill St.,
Pittston, PA 18640? Phone is 570-654-7177.  Ed's primary focus was, of
course those areas where he lived.  Primarily this was the Wilkes-Barre
/ Scranton area.  In the years immediately before Ed was drafted to
serve in World War II, he worked for the power company in New York City
as a fireman ... so he has a lot of Third Avenue and Brooklyn material,
and Connecticut Company on fantrips.  Then he would up back in
Pittston.  And from 1949 to 1952 he labored as a motorman for Capital
Transit Co., which made Baltimore, B&A, and Washington cars favorite
targets on his days off (mid week because he had no seniority).  Like
all of us, he did take trips, usually by train or bus because he didn't
buy an automobile until late in life (I think early in the 1960s).  

He made one trip to the West Coast in 1957 on which he took in almost
everything on wheels ... Muni, LATL, Metro Coach, Kansas City, St.
Louis, Chicago, and, you guessed it, Milwaukee.  At that time he was
still fielding a 616 folding camera of quite acceptable quality, but he
also had an 8mm movie camera and a Leica for Kodachrome slides.  

Ed is incredibly charitable but most reticent if you haven't first taken
the time to get to know him.  I could walk out with any slide or
negative I wanted but it's taken many visits to get to that point. 
Without taking the time to visit and talk (or at least talk), chances
are very poor.

He used to trade prints with scads of people.  Unfortunately, A) there
is no longer a camera store in Pittston; B) Kodak no longer makes
contact papers for 616 size negatives, 3) Kodak no longer makes any
contact papers except in a very limited number of contrast grades (2 and
3 or 2, 3 and 4) -- the very high contrast and low contrast papers have
joined the dinosaurs; C) Non one has made 616 and 116 film for thirty
years, and other tools that went with it, such as negative carriers for
enlargers and printing machines are no longer manufactured.  This simply
means that you cannot take a 616 negative to your local camera store and
even get it printed any longer And people like myself who can handle
them are getting older and more tired.

But, if you can find a way to get to Ed and get something out of him,
the results are worth the effort.  I have printed some of his Milwaukee
negatives from 1957 and they are quite nice.

Bill Middleton (941 Rosser Lane, Charlottesville, VA 22903) also has
some rather nice 6x6 black and white negatives of TM.  He was using a
Rolleiflex at that time.  Fortunately, those of us who chose the 2 1/4 x
2 1/4 format found that it remained one of three standard sizes for roll
film or medium format and there is absolutely no trouble getting them
printed.  

Kenneth Josephson wrote:
> 
> >  Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > Here are the latest changes to my little web site.
> > > >
> > > > As usual, I welcome comments, criticism, corrections & contributions (as in
> > > > photos and/or ancedotes.)
> > > >
> > > > The link is below. Thanks again for all your help & support.
> > > >
> > > > Ken
> > > >
> > > > http://home.sprintmail.com/~kjosephson/index.html