Poor, Sad ol’ Slumpy

Moving a house looks like a pretty difficult thing to do. What happens if it’s done wrong? Well, it’s not pretty. This house went from an elegant home to a collapsing shell.

See the history of the house and the whole sad story of its gradual decay here:
slumpy … the William Livingstone Mansion in Detroit’s [...]

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PaX, Man?

The cute little PaX rangefinder is an unusual beast. This is the first model in the PaX series from Yamato Camera, manufactured around 1950 (not to be confused with a German line of PaX cameras, no relation). The styling was clearly inspired by the Leicas of the period, but the camera is actually quite a [...]

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