[PRCo] Re: PSSST - WANNA BUY LOUSY PICTURES?

[John F Bromley]

Not a criticism of Gwynn's work, merely that someone could ask for $8 for a
616 print that's not even showing all of the car.  I've cut off the odd one
too but unless it was the world's rarest circumstance they wound up in the
dumper.  Still do.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 3:35 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PSSST - WANNA BUY LOUSY PICTURES?


> Were you fishing for commentary, John?
>
> For the most part, Bill Gwynn's photos were marginal.  This is
characteristic.  It's a good 10 cent picture that somebody thinks is
> worth $8.00.
>
> However, Gwynn did have some nice material.  Bill worked in the teens for
Ohio Valley Electric Co., Huntington, West Virginia, and took
> a lot of pictures of cars and the people with whom he worked.  They are
box  camera negatives but some print up rather nicely.  This is
> especially nice because, disregarding Bill's photos, I think I've never
seen more than three OVE pictures.  During his years with
> Wheeling Traction / Cooperative Transit he had access to the company photo
files and there are some fair quality copy negatives of those
> views.  Sadly, bus drivers are not the world's wealthiest people,
particularly in a small city.  He economized by having two or three or
> four pictures copied on one 4x5 negatives which tended to materially
reduce sharpness and increase grain.   And where are these
> negatives?  Well, your donations to PTM will help to maintain them.
fws
>
> John F Bromley wrote:
>
> > Step right up ladies and germs getcha hot pix while they last - only $8
plus postage or most of this 616 print of 1415 on Crosstown.
> >
> >
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2156191735&category=1445
> >
> > Thanks to Bob Rathke I can ignore this "gem".
>
>
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