Smaug01
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The other day, I managed to get out for a walk in my city, Kenosha, WI, with my new Z5 and 24-120 lens.
There is a small courtyard with a bench and this AMC-dedicated mural on the side of the building nearby. On the bench was an older man relaxing. I asked if he would mind taking a pic of me by the mural. He did, but that is not the shot with the story behind it.
He mentioned that he retired from AMC, as did his dad and granddad. I mentioned that I always thought the Gremlin was a good-looking car. He said it did, but this mural got the windshield all wrong. What do you think?
Here is Wes, a proud former 3rd generation employee of AMC Motors. He built Gremlins, back in the 70s.
He also told me a funny story about one of his more memorable shifts. He was assigned to work on something menial in the morning. He went out to the pub at lunch and got drunk, then went back to work, when his boss assigned him to the crane, to move AMC Pacers from one line to another. He had worked the crane before, but needed some time to get his confidence up. Taking his time, he did, and (being drunk) he got TOO confident and destroyed the bodies of three Pacers by deploying the lifting arms too soon after the cradle had cleared the car's body/chassis. He managed not to get fired, somehow.
I asked him where AMC used to be located, and he told me "where the fancy new condos are now, just south of the harbor on the lakefront".
We chatted for a little bit more about the history of Kenosha, as I've only been living here a couple years, then we parted ways.
I walked for 2.5 hours that day, and walked by those condos that are where AMC's body factory used to be:
Here are the lakefront condos where the AMC body shop used to be. I'm sure these are much nicer-looking than the AMC building.
I'm quite impressed with the camera and the 24-120 lens. These are both uncropped images, but I only shot them at Small resolution.
I plan to post some more historical Kenosha architecture in the coming days.
Thanks to BratPix and Lyon for the inspiration.
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-Jeremy
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"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
-Eric Hofer
There is a small courtyard with a bench and this AMC-dedicated mural on the side of the building nearby. On the bench was an older man relaxing. I asked if he would mind taking a pic of me by the mural. He did, but that is not the shot with the story behind it.
He mentioned that he retired from AMC, as did his dad and granddad. I mentioned that I always thought the Gremlin was a good-looking car. He said it did, but this mural got the windshield all wrong. What do you think?
Here is Wes, a proud former 3rd generation employee of AMC Motors. He built Gremlins, back in the 70s.
He also told me a funny story about one of his more memorable shifts. He was assigned to work on something menial in the morning. He went out to the pub at lunch and got drunk, then went back to work, when his boss assigned him to the crane, to move AMC Pacers from one line to another. He had worked the crane before, but needed some time to get his confidence up. Taking his time, he did, and (being drunk) he got TOO confident and destroyed the bodies of three Pacers by deploying the lifting arms too soon after the cradle had cleared the car's body/chassis. He managed not to get fired, somehow.
I asked him where AMC used to be located, and he told me "where the fancy new condos are now, just south of the harbor on the lakefront".
We chatted for a little bit more about the history of Kenosha, as I've only been living here a couple years, then we parted ways.
I walked for 2.5 hours that day, and walked by those condos that are where AMC's body factory used to be:
Here are the lakefront condos where the AMC body shop used to be. I'm sure these are much nicer-looking than the AMC building.
I'm quite impressed with the camera and the 24-120 lens. These are both uncropped images, but I only shot them at Small resolution.
I plan to post some more historical Kenosha architecture in the coming days.
Thanks to BratPix and Lyon for the inspiration.
--
-Jeremy
*********
"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
-Eric Hofer
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). Taking pictures offers great opportunities to start chatting with people you've never met, right?