Paul: This is a great story! I'll get you an armadillo shot from the zoo. Wouldn't it be cool if it was a descendant of yours truly?! Cheers, Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stenquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 5:35 AM Subject: Re: The Cushman Photos -- watching a photographer progress > I've been to Lincoln Park Zoo a number of times, but don't remember > the bear. When I was a kid, we most often went to Brookfield. They > were about equidistant from the Southeast side. > > My best memory of Lincoln Park Zoo comes from the days when I worked > on the race car. We were driving back from Miami with our truck and > trailer one Sunday night and saw some armadillos poking around near > the road. The guy who was driving decided to stop, and one of the > guys, who was a bit of a lunatic, jumped out and chased an > armadillo. He caught him and put him in the truck, thinking we'd keep > him in our shop as a pet. Well, when we got back to Chicago that > Armadillo was very unhappy. Couldn't get him to eat. (Don't know why > he didn't like cheeseburgers), and the cold was making him sluggish. > So we decided to take him to Lincoln Park Zoo. After smoking a bit of > weed. (The armadillo didn't like that any more than the cheeseburger.) > > At the zoo, we managed to find the administration building. We went > into the office with the armadillo in a box and told the receptionist > we wanted to donate an armadillo. Well, it seems the curator had been > hoping to get an armadillo for some time. Just the day before they > had tricked him with some kind of object made from an armadillo > shell. They had wrapped a blanket around it and presented it to him. > So, he of course assumed this was another trick and refused to come > out to the reception area. So we took the armadillo out of the box. > The office was quite warm and that seemed to please him. He (or she > as the case may have been) began scampering around the office and the > receptionist screamed. That got the curator out there. In short, he > was thrilled. We lied and told him that the armadillo must have > crawled into our trailer while we were racing. Since they're an > endangered species, we didn't want to end up in the clink. He pointed > out that armadillos are very timid and would never come near a > trailer, but he wanted an armadillo bad enough that he didn't press > the issue. So the armadillo moved into Lincoln Park Zoo, and we went > back to our cold shop, cheeseburgers and weed. > > And that's my Lincoln Park Zoo story, the only one I have:-). > Paul > > > On Feb 11, 2008, at 8:25 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: > >> Paul: Thanks for the link below. I didn't get through all of >> them, but >> seeing the zoo shots made me think of something I hadn't thought of >> in a >> long time. Coming from the south side, I don't know if you spent a >> lot of >> time at Lincoln Park zoo, but at LP zoo you used to be able to get >> your >> photograph taken while standing next to a stuffed medium sized >> bear. My >> parents made this an annual ritual. Somewhere, there are BW >> photographs of >> me & my sister sitting or standing next to this bear. I have to >> find those >> photographs. Sound familiar? >> Anyway, I love the circus & beach shots. >> >> Cheers, Christine >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> >> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 12:24 PM >> Subject: The Cushman Photos -- watching a photographer progress >> >> >>> I've made it through 118 pages of the Chicago pics with no end in >>> sight. >>> This has taken me from some of his first work in 1937 all the way >>> to 1958. >>> It's fascinating to see how he progressed in terms of composition and >>> creative perspective. I also noticed that his camera developed a >>> sticky >>> shutter in 1958 or thereabouts. Seems he had it fixed fairly soon. >>> It's >>> also interesting that he threw very little away -- end of roll shots, >>> sticky shutter shots, overexposed and underexposed shots -- >>> they're all >>> here. >>> >>> The Chicago area pics start here: http://tinyurl.com/2lsrlo >>> Paul >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >>> and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
