Archives 2003

Tuesday 11/18/2003 3:07:51pm
Name:	Kevin Horn
E-Mail:	kcownews@bbc.net
Homepage Title:	www.doubleqcountry.com
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Where are you from:	Alliance, NE
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Comments:	Wonderful page. Full of rich history. What an education!

Monday 11/10/2003 4:42:19pm
Name:	Gail Doan
E-Mail:	nitengail77@aol.com
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Where are you from:	Kentucky
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Comments:	The site is splendid! I feel like I have visited the Canteen myself!

Sunday 11/09/2003 4:11:35pm
Name:	Liz Gerberding
E-Mail:	nfwc2004.msn.com
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Where are you from:	Grand Island NE
Referred By:	Just Surfed In
Comments:	For our Mississippi Valley Region Conference for the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Inc. we are going to do the theme around the North Platte Canteen. Do you know if there were other canteens in the state during this time? We would like to recognize them at this event. Also, were there any of the Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs involved in volunteering at the North Platte Canteen?

Tuesday 10/07/2003 9:29:00pm
Name:	Paul M. Morgan
E-Mail:	ThyMorgans@aol.com
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Where are you from:	Jupiter, Florida
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Comments:	The people in and around North Platte must be the friendliest people in the world. Went thru three two or three times, from west to east, in 1945 and 1946, bringing sailors home for discharge. Paul M. Morgan Jupiter, Florida

Saturday 10/04/2003 2:15:30pm
Name:	Julie Colling
E-Mail:	freedomdaughter@hotmail.com
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Comments:	This is great. It has all the info I need for my presentation for school.

Saturday 10/04/2003 10:51:11am
Name:	Ken Tam
E-Mail:	kenneth.tam@alum.rpi.edu
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Where are you from:	Mountain View, CA
Referred By:	Just Surfed In
Comments:	I came to your website while reading Bob Greene's "Once Upon a Town".

Monday 09/29/2003 1:00:07pm
Name:	Ed McHenry
E-Mail:	emchenry@iquest.net
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Where are you from:	Carmel, IN
Referred By:	Just Surfed In
Comments:	Last year, I read Bob Greene's book, "Once Upon a Town, The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen". I was riveted to that book from start to finish. My father and father-in-law both served in the U.S. Military during World War II........it was a very defining period of their lives and mine too, as I feel it paved the way for life as we now know it. I am currently scanning the letters my father wrote to his mother and father while he was away in the Army into my computer. There are so many (probably 500 or more) that it will take me quite a while to complete this task. Coupling this task with my reading of Bob Greene's book has made me wonder if my father passed through North Platte while in the Army. I would be so curious to know if he did. Today, (9-29-03) I talked to Chadwick Boehlke of the Lincoln County Historical Society and he informed me that it would be several years before this information would be put into a database for the Web. Oh, how I wish I could find out sooner. Please let me know when this is done so I can see. I want so desperately to know more about my father and his role in WWII. That is my favorite period of American History. His name was Glenn H. McHenry from Matthews, Indiana. Many thanks for anything you can do. Sincerely, Ed McHenry Carmel, IN emchenry@iquest.net

Sunday 09/28/2003 4:50:38pm
Name:	Ruth (Eaton) Haase
E-Mail:	dhaase@neb.rr.com
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Where are you from:	Lincoln, NE
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Comments:	I have viewed before, but it has been quite awhile. Also, a classmate of mine from NP High, 56', said to check in again...It is a wonderful site and brings back great childhood memories. My mother used to take me to the Canteen when she went there to volunteer.

Friday 09/12/2003 0:49:15am
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Comments:	Donations for the museum display can be mailed to the Lincoln County Historical Society Museum, 2403 N. Buffalo Bill Ave., North Platte, NE 69101. Checks should be made to the Lincoln County Historical Society with a notation that they are for the Canteen display. Pledges or donations for "The Canteen Spirit" ETV documentary can be mailed to the Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation, P.O. Box 1321, North Platte, NE 69103. Pledge forms are available at the foundation office, 120 N. Dewey, at the North Platte/Lincoln County Convention & Visitors Bureau, 219 S. Dewey, and the North Platte Area Chamber of Commerce, 502 S. Dewey. Checks should be made to Mid-Nebraska Community Foundation Lincoln County Historical Society Fund. Pledge cards offer Canteen-related categories. A $5 donation puts you at the cup of coffee level; $10 represents a contribution of hard-boiled eggs; $25 a plate of cookies; send $50 and you've contributed a bunch of donuts; $100 plenty of sandwiches. You can be recognized at the fried chicken level for $500 and at the birthday cake level for $1,000. All gifts are income-tax deductible. If the ETV donations come in over the $30,000 needed, the extra dollars will go toward the museum display. Everybody is a winner. Nebraska ETV will take the World War II Canteen story into the next generation of viewers, and the next generation of storytelling technology. It will be filmed for high-definition, digital television. The museum will receive a 45-minute video loop of interviews to add to its exhibit and full videotape and transcripts for archival use. Edited interviews will be placed on the NebraskaStudies.org web site for video streaming on demand to any user worldwide. The documentary will be broadcast on the Nebraska ETV Network and offered to PBS stations nationwide. We will get a premiere event some time next year. Could we buy any better advertising for our town at any price? The present Canteen display was created in 1986. Wayne Griffin wrote the grant application to the Nebraska Humanities Council that got it started. Geraldine Young and Jerry Hollen spent a lot of time putting the exhibit together. Don Snoddy of the Union Pacific Museum provided the pictures. But time and traffic wear on such things. The pictures are beginning to look tired and worn. The museum's new director, Chad Boehlke, has designed a project that will make the Canteen display more viewer-friendly and give it better focus within the museum. He will describe that plan for anyone interested at a public forum Sept. 11 at 1 p.m. at the museum. It's interesting how one thing leads to another. The museum exhibit and collection of clippings and letters helped Bob Greene in his research for the best-selling book: "Once Upon A Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen," which in turn helped generate enthusiasm for the ETV documentary as well as other media attention. Greene's book also prompted the Omaha Community Playhouse to write a musical for its Nebraska Theatre Caravan. The musical, "Stories from the North Platte Canteen" will tour the state, including a visit to our town Sept. 25 with (tentatively) a special matinee Sept. 27.

Thursday 09/11/2003 7:13:11pm
Name:	Bill & Lela Ayers
E-Mail:	wdayers@rogershsa.com
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Where are you from:	Palmer, Alaska
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Comments:	I was born in Perkins County, NE. As a small boy I used to go with my parents and help serve the GI's as they came through. My mother was a member of the Sawyer Extension club in Perkins Cty and they took their turn once a month providing a portion of the food and teats from the time it opened until it closed. I have fond memories of helping to serve and wandering around downtown NP between trains.

Thursday 09/11/2003 2:46:40pm
Name:	Esther Sandberg
E-Mail:	e.sandberg@comcast.net
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Where are you from:	Bellevue WA now, 1946-1958 in NP
Referred By:	Just Surfed In
Comments:	To help with ongoing support for the Canteen display at the NP Museum And the documentary look quick (before it disappears, maybe at the end of this week) at nptelegraph.com Click on OPINION and then on YOUR TOWN & MINE for the article by Keith Blackledge. Sorry I gave goofy info yesterday in this Guest Book. I find all this interesting, exciting and excellent. Do go and look right now!

Thursday 09/11/2003 0:06:38am
Name:	Esther Sandberg
E-Mail:	e.sandberg@comcast.net
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Where are you from:	Bellevue WA now & NP 1946-1958
Referred By:	Just Surfed In
Comments:	The Canteen spirit goes on. We can support upgrading the display of the Canteen at the Lincoln County Historical Society Museum as well as the making of a documentary on ETV. See nptelegraph.com (Sept 8, 9, 20th, 2003). That's the North Platte newspaper. Keith Blackledge (see OPINION and then click YOUR TOWN & MINE) has written a terrific description of what is current. I urge you to take a look and contribute some amount to help preserve this very neat bit of history. As a little girl I accompanied my Mom on the days she worked there on the day for our town.

Sunday 08/24/2003 10:43:47pm
Name:	Gloria G.
E-Mail:	gloria_galvan@yahoo.com
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Where are you from:	Los Angeles
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Comments:	I read Bob Greene's book and was so impressed that I looked up for websites on the great North Platte, Nebraska. I was so touched, impressed and inspired by the citizens of North Platte's with their generosity to the troops of World War II. I'm not connected in any way but I just wanted to say my thanks to the citizens who did a tremendous job in North Platte. I realize it is a very belated thanks but the citizens from this bygone era have so inspired my sister and I to support our troops. My sister and I both support the troops in the Iraq war with care packages and letters and we'll continue this until they come home just like North Platte citizens did during World War II. North Platte continues to be an inspiration and its generosity will never, ever be forgotten.

Wednesday 08/13/2003 7:30:22pm
Name:	Vera ( Grasz) Bottrell
E-Mail:	vegb@ltol.com
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Where are you from:	Lake Tahoe Ca.
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Comments:	Vera (Grasz) Bottrell vegb@ltol.com -- I enjoy looking at this site As my family moved to North Platte in 1944 and my mother and two sister worked through there 4-H club served coffee, fix sandwithches etc. I was little but was by my moms side as she helped. am proud to have been a small part of a wonderful thing. When the boys come back know they need more recognition for what they do for all of us. Vera

Monday 07/28/2003 4:21:23pm
Name:	Susan Johnson
E-Mail:	susan.johnson@biola.edu
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Where are you from:	Midway City, California
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Comments:	I just finished reading about the Canteen in Bob Greene's book. What a blessing to my heart to read about what my fellow Americans did during the war. My dad was in the Army Air Corp and since he has already passed away I have no way of knowing whether he benefited from the wonderful people of North Platte, Nebraska, but I know if they had, he would want me to thank them for their sacrifice. I was born in 1946, but as I age I have acquired a very great appreciation for the sacrificial lifestyle of my grandparents and parents during the war years. Blessings to you.

Sunday 07/27/2003 11:39:15pm
Name:	Jill
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Where are you from:	Oregon
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Comments:	This is one of my favorite websites! I am a 25-year old WWII history buff, and I thoroughly enjoy reading about anything associated with that era. The North Platte Canteen is a wonderful and inspiring story of patriotism and ingenuity! Keep up the great work!

Sunday 06/29/2003 6:16:55am
Name:	Janet Nielsen
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Comments:	I thoroughly enjoyed your website. It brought back many memories. My family were from Lodgepole NE and we all worked at the canteen on "Lodgepole Day". I especially remember getting gas for the trip to NP from farmer friends and filling the car with as many people as we could fit in -- each with a birthday cake on her lap (probably baked by my aunt, a 4-star mother) My sister who was 4 years older than I, danced with the servicemen. I was a very quiet child and was allowed, with a small basket of goodies and an adult accompanying me, to visit several hospital cars on the troop trains -- with warnings to make no noise and say nothing. I don't believe I said a word, but I did receive lots of attention from those wounded men and I loved it. I am 73 years old now. I recently read "Once Upon a Town" by Bob Green and have given it to my daughter who is quite a history buff. She has been very interested in this story and found your website. It is such a good one, and I am sure it will preserve those days not only in our hearts but in the hearts of all the younger generations. Thank you, Janet Nielsen

Friday 06/20/2003 10:30:35pm
Name:	Patrick R. Christ
E-Mail:	chancechrist2@hotmail.cao
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Where are you from:	Vancouver, WA
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Comments:	Hello, I am one of the grandsons of Adam and Helen Christ. I thank you for your efforts to keep the canteen alive. What a great generation! ....... I enjoyed the display when I pasted through North Platte and look forward to making that journey again. If I can possibly help in anyway, please contact. Sincerely Patrick R. Christ

Thursday 06/12/2003 1:44:55am
Name:	Tom Draus
E-Mail:	tjdraus@mhtc
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Homepage URL:	http://Wisconsin
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Comments:	This is a great site and a nice tribute to the greatest American generation ever.

Sunday 06/08/2003 10:18:00am
Name:	Charlene Tudor
E-Mail:	tudorc@yahoo.com
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Where are you from:	current Lake Zurich, Il...orig San Diego
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Comments:	On my daughter's recommendation, I just finished Bob Greene's book - and will surely get off of I80 next time I go to visit her in Colorado! My father and father-in-law were WWII vets and I can't help but wonder if they stopped in N. Platte. Are there any plans to put the original guestbook's on line? I would be willing to help with the entry. Thanks for all the love your folks passed out. Charlene Tudor

Friday 06/06/2003 4:09:16pm
Name:	Brian Arnold
E-Mail:	TopmanLB@Aol.com
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Where are you from:	Long Beach CA
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Comments:	On behalf of my father, AMOS H. ARNOLD, thank you NORTH PLATTE CANTEEN! Your mom food was a great thing. Any chance I can find out if my dad was there on a troop train? I will look at your site more to see if I can find anyway to search. Again, thanks to your townsfolk (likely your parents and grandparents) and your neighbors contribution to those lives of all those soldiers that would have included my dad and my uncle Carroll Skow and so many others. 10 or 20 minutes that lives on in the minds of many people that you touched warmly and with grace. Brian Arnold, Long Beach CA

Saturday 05/31/2003 3:21:42pm
Name:	jrr
E-Mail:	jrr@msn.com
Homepage Title:	Bargain Seen On TV Products
Homepage URL:	http://bargain-seen-on-tv-products.com
Where are you from:	Austin, Texas, USA
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Comments:	Surfing around today. Great Site. I like the design.

Thursday 05/08/2003 3:54:34pm
Name:	B Caruso
E-Mail:	Vivaldi700@aol.com
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Where are you from:	Connecticut
Referred By:	Just Surfed In
Comments:	I just finished Once upon a town - -WOW It is the most beautiful story I have ever read. As a former GI [Vietnam era] I can understand how the homesick GI's felt pulling into the Station and seeing the canteen. There will always be a place in my heart for such a great people. I never knew America until now. I know what a great country we are but because the people of a Nebraska town I feel so much different about places that before I knew nothing about. You have autographed my soul with your hearts! Reading about all this I feel I have re-lived a wonderful story of friendship across the miles!

Wednesday 05/07/2003 7:35:27am
Name:	Bonnie Stull St. Patrick's Chorale
E-Mail:	stullmarylandzx@netscape.net
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Where are you from:	Hagerstown MD
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Comments:	St. Patrick's Chorale located in Hagerstown MD is presenting a concert May 24 2003 and May 25 2003, honoring the North Platte canteen. The concert is titled All Aboard! "Destination North Platte Canteen" We will telling this wonderful story through music and narration. We are a group of 48 adult members, 20 children members and 14 piece concert band. All our members volunteer their time for the concerts. It is are gift to the community. If you are interested in any further information you can contact me by faxing me at 301/739/1089 or 301/665-9364.

Monday 04/28/2003 8:36:22pm
Name:	Ralph A. Crawford
E-Mail:	sam@27.org
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Where are you from:	Klamath Falls, OR
Referred By:	Just Surfed In
Comments:	I really enjoy your canteen site. My sister and her husband owned a dairy just outside of North Platte and I stayed with them sometime back in the forties. My brother served with company D, 134th infantry during world war two and started his 41 year career with United Airlines in North Platte, after world war two. I enjoyed your site so much that I sent for the book "once upon a town." Thanks again for a nostalgic experience.

Wednesday 04/16/2003 9:35:30am
Name:	Nicole McDermott
E-Mail:	nicole_m_09@hotmail.com
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Where are you from:	Hastings, NE; raised in North Platte, NE
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Comments:	I am Liela DuTemple's (one of the original workers for the canteen) great granddaughter. I am doing a report on the North Platte Canteen for one of my classes. This is a great web site and I have found a lot of information on this topic. Thank you!!

Tuesday 04/15/2003 8:49:56am
Name:	Don R. Davison
E-Mail:	Don.Davison@us.army.mil
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Where are you from:	Ogallala
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Comments:	I am now in Bosnia with the 35 ID(M). Wished I was home!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday 04/13/2003 6:24:21pm
Name:	Sheila Lankford
E-Mail:	vivaladiva65@attbi.com
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Where are you from:	Lincoln, NE - currently live in Sac, CA
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Comments:	Recently finished readings the book Once Upon a Town, the Story of the North Platte Canteen. Touching book, very well written and made me more curious about the Canteen. Sure would be great if some sort of museum could be erected on the original spot - it obviously was so important to so many people.

Wednesday 04/09/2003 4:02:08am
Name:	Ralph O. Ward
E-Mail:	rowlsw@mindspring.com
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Where are you from:	Vernon, Florida
Referred By:	Just Surfed In
Comments:	My High School Classes of 1942 and 1943 recently donated "Once upon a Town, by Bob Green, to the Vernon, Florida High School Library in memory of James Roche, a class mate and a veteran of WWII. We believe he, like I, had the pleasure of visiting the Canteen while passing through North Platte, on a troop train. The wonderful people of North Platte, have a special place in my heart. I shall always remember and be grateful to them for the friendly and kind way they treated the service men as we passed through their town on our way to and from war. May God Bless them, and their descendants.

Friday 03/28/2003 6:13:37pm
Name:	Gary Wentworth
E-Mail:	gwkelbud@hotmail.com
Homepage Title:	MSN
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Where are you from:	Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
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Comments:	Love the museum. If I'm ever down that way I'll definitely drop in. Yours truly, Gary Wentworth

Tuesday 03/18/2003 1:29:53pm
Name:	Deb Dunham
E-Mail:	deb.dunham@noridian.com
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Where are you from:	Grand Forks, ND
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Comments:	I recently read the book "Once Upon a Town" by Bob Greene. I instantly became intrigued with the North Platte Canteen and all of its history. I am 32 years old and some days I wish that we could go back and raise our 3 boys in days such as the Canteen. Words cannot describe how I feel when I read about the acts of the volunteers and the service men. They were such honest and hard working men and women. Thank you for putting together this site to learn more about the history of the Canteen and the remarkable work done there.

Wednesday 01/22/2003 7:29:33pm
Name:	Vera ( Grasz) Bottrell
E-Mail:	vegb@ltol.com
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Where are you from:	Lake Tahoe Ca.
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Comments:	What a wonderful sight as My Mother and older sisters helped serve the boys as t hey got off and on the train sometimes just min. to get something to eat and back on the train. I was little but remember hanging on Moms dress because it was busy. love the site. Vera

Saturday 01/18/2003 7:28:53pm
Name:	Sandra Lee Reeves
E-Mail:	bellamyk@homexpressway.net
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Where are you from:	St. George, SC
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Comments:	I was born and went to school in North Platte. My friends and I would go down to the Depot and sit on the empty baggage wagons so we could wave to the soilders coming in on the trains. We thought we were contributing to the cause. We were only about 8 or 9 years old! I've really enjoyed this web page. Wish that depot was still there!

Thursday 01/09/2003 8:07:03am
Name:	Ann Alden
E-Mail:	momalden@columbus.rr.com
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Where are you from:	Gahanna, Ohio
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Comments:	The librarian/leader of our book group gave us this URL. As a library discussion group, we just finished reading Bob Greene's book about North Platte and enjoyed the many stories that he culled from former volunteers and servicemen. Buuuut, this wonderful and easy to use site gives me so much more info on the canteen and the many wonderful people who were involved in this incredible effort. Thanks for making it available to the public.

Wednesday 01/08/2003 7:26:20pm
Name:	Harriet
E-Mail:	paperandimages@att.net
Homepage Title:	Paper & Images
Homepage URL:	http://paperandimages.home.att.net
Where are you from:	New York City
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Comments:	Referred by traffic swarm. I am a photographer and graphic artist. I love the photos in this site. And that's how I got started. I used to spend hours looking at very old photographs (the older the better). Then I guess it was in my heart to shoot my own. I now have a photo-related business selling mostly wholesale and now offering retail. Hope you visit. Best wishes, Harriet

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