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Post by byuphoto on Feb 13, 2006 22:12:05 GMT -5
AShot with the Zeiss Ikon Nettar by setting on table and pressing shutter. Fuji Neopan 400   |
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Post by Randy on Feb 14, 2006 7:51:37 GMT -5
Rick, I really like the second shot. Being a former truck driver, I've sat in places like that waking up stiff from a night in the sleeper, trying to get as much caffene into me as I could. Makes me wanna get my old Speedex out.
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Post by kamera on Feb 14, 2006 8:37:37 GMT -5
Rick,
Had to laugh when I saw the second shot.
The one gal just aimlessly playing with her ponytail, and the one on the far right just kind of staring off into space...or else she was staring at you.
Luv em!!
Ron Head
Kalamazoo, MI
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Post by PeterW on Feb 14, 2006 13:10:17 GMT -5
Hi Rick,
Randy wrote:
Can't say I've spent many nights in a sleeper cab, but when I was road testing trucks in the 1950s and 1960s I had many a meal in places like this, or in the typical trucker's "Joe's Caff/Greasy sp-oon" Had hyphenate that, the ever-alert board censor cut it out for some reason and substituted sthingy!. "By the light of the silvery moon, I used to sthingy, to my honey I'd croon love's tune" ;D ;D ;D
Most of those places have gone now, driven out of trade by motorway service centres.
On the whole I preferred the Joe's Caff type of places with their muddy, rutted parking space negotiable only by Trucks or Bikers.
These places weren't so salubriously furnished, but the meals were cheaper and better - typical beakfast was two eggs, bacon, sausage and tomatoes with door-step thick bread and butter. Typical lunch was roast meat or meat pie, potatoes and veg - and plenty of it, followed by pie and custard. Meals were rounded off with a huge pint mug of strong tea. No 'fast food' snacks and dainty little tea or coffee pots. And God help your digestion when you climbed back into the truck again.
Names that come to mind were the Merrichest, Truby's, A1 Truck Stop, Alf's Caff and of course the Busy Bee near Watford, later famous/infamous for its 100-strong biker meetings. All a thing of the past now, small businesses catering for a select few, and pushed out by Motorways and large chains of catering contractors with their carefullly sized serving sthingys (oh heck! serving implements then) for 'portion control'.
Peter
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Post by byuphoto on Feb 14, 2006 16:25:08 GMT -5
Yeah, I used to eat at a lot of those when I was on the road as a dynamite salesman, no kidding, The 103 truckstop and many more up and down the gulf coast. The ypung girl is the daughter of a friend. Most of these folks never heard or paid any attention to the little Nettar sitting on the table and never thought I was taking photos.
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Post by byuphoto on Feb 14, 2006 16:27:09 GMT -5
Here's another  |
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Post by Michael Fraley on Oct 5, 2006 23:45:34 GMT -5
Hi Rick,
I guess the Coffee Shop pictures are not up anymore? Too bad, I'd like to see them..
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