THE ALPA ALNEA 9-D AND THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT ATTRITION RATE........

 considering selling some of my many cameras, I recalled one of the dumbest things that I've done......In 1970, I sold the Alpa Alnea 9-D camera that I got from Werner Von Braun.....to my next door neighbor....for $135!....., replacing it with a Pentax Spotmatic....later......duh!.... Then, to compound my stupidity, I sold my Hasselblad for $300 because I couldn't afford a new 'film back' for the instrument!, later replacing it with a look-a-like Bronica! duh...duh! The 'upside' is that I never use a 'real' camera anymore...just my 5 year-old phone-camera.....It's not about the 'hardware', anyway....but the brain and eye behind the viewfinder.......I was accepted by Brooks, with a portfolio done with a 'shoebox' pinhole camera and homemade film, made from photosensitive paper that I made in my mother's coat closet.......Brooks instructed me to 'get' a Calumet 'view' camera for 'sheet film'.....so I sold the beautiful 1933 Leica IIIF for that 'box on a tripod'......then, never went to California......ditching the Calumet for a stack of books on American Composition and Rhetoric and a box of Agrarian Writers' works, 2 D.H. Lawrence novels, 2 Henry James novels, a 1st Edition of Joyce's ULYSSES and The Complete Works Of William Faulkner......I still have that old Mamiya, with a 'motor drive'....but it languishes, in it's original box, as it has for the past 2 decades....maybe longer........

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BALLISTIC HARDWARE FROM MILTON BRADLEY TO FACILITATE THE HISTORISCOPICALLY QUICKER, MORE EFFICIENT WAY TO WIN 'THE CHECKERED GAME OF LIFE'

The "AHC" channel pops up when I turn on DIRECTV to 'see what's on'......I watched a 'run' of WAR shows, this morning....spanning the first half of the 20th Century......well=made, even interesting historical shows.......ALL about WAR, of course.....The narrator(s) continually reminding audiences of the "losses" of tens....make that hundreds...of millions of Humans....and their animal and human slaves....horses, mules, donkeys, camels...etc.....and trillions of tons of mechanical hardware, ships, tanks, planes, aircraft carriers...etc...etc....utilized for non-stop Warfare in one place or another....or many, simultaneously.....continually, ad infinitum, ad nauseum....I remember all the ads in 'boys' comix and magazines, when I was an adolescent ....catering to what appears to be a genetic bloodlusting need for confrontery, combative agressiveness....posturing, usually, as 'defense'.......Have you procured a 'Big Dick' machine gun, a 'play' grenade-launcher, a fighter plane that drops 'play' exploding water bombs, exploding air-ships, inflated with smoke...to mimic the Hindenberg....or, how about a Combat Knife/Handcuff 'Set' for 'taking prisoners at gunpoint, boys..... for your 8=year old grandson/child yet, to rev 'him' ...or, now, 'her', also....up for some healthy border protection or maintenance of 'Our Way-of-Life-ness'? 'Perfect' Valentine's Gifts for every child! and.... gigantic money-makers for the Military-Industrial-Harware Manufactoring Trade......

THE LATEST BRAINWASHING TOY FOR YOUNG PRO-TRUMP SIX YEAR OLDS.......PHONE COMES IN BOTH TURQUOISE BLUE AND POWDER PINK

 CORRAL WALL ...SOLD SEPARATELY....

I BEGGED FOR ....AND RECEIVED......THIS 'ATOMIC ENERGY LAB'....WHEN I WAS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.......

THIS 'KIT' WAS ONLY 'ON THE MARKET' FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS...SINCE, BECAUSE IT WAS SO EXPENSIVE, THAT PARENTS WERE RELUCTANT TO PURCHASE IT FOR THEIR CHILDREN.....THEN, ALWAYS, BOYS....  AFTER MAKING A MESS OF THE 'VIALED' CONTENTS, I RETURNED TO THE 'ERECTOR SET', ALSO DESIGNED AND MARKETED BY A.C. GILBERT....

C'MON, BOYS....YOU KNOW YOU WANT ONE TOO!!   

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