Category: Childhood

Pentax Film Camera

Photography

I was given a Pentax 35 mm Camera. What it had built into it was a light meter. I could see the meter inside the viewfinder. I could adjust the aperture on the lens until the light meter read in the sweet spot for correctly making the exposure light appropriate. This made a big difference, I was adjusting the aperture and producing good pictures.

Do all film cameras have a built in light meter?

187 ml Bottles

Katherine Cole. “How the Trinchero Family Built a Wine Empire.” daily.sevenfifty.com/. https://daily.sevenfifty.com/how-trinchero-built-a-wine-empire/#trinchero-1: January 4, 2018

A similarly savvy move was the Trincheros’ prescient early investment in what has become a common sight these days—the single-serving bottle, or “split.”

The Trincheros commissioned research in the 1980s that determined that the increasing number of American adults living alone were hesitant to purchase full-sized bottles of wine for themselves.

The only single-serving sizes available at that time were the plastic 187 ml bottles used by airlines, so Roger Trinchero custom-ordered a small glass bottle mold for Sutter Home. Today, Sutter Home sells more than half of all 187 ml–sized wines in the United States.

Rose Acres

 

It was a plan to build a new house with the old boarding house as an example. As it was getting closer to finishing the new house and the threat was that the old boarding house would be destroyed, the staff started listening to Nirvana. It was telling the staff in Tagalog to not destroy the old house. It was once a place for Samuel Clemens to do his thinking.

We have a tendency to unlearn things. Saving this house is probably an example of what we need to relearn periodically. I don’t want anyone to destroy the old house. I stayed at the new house when it was a mental health place in 1998. The same thing happened there as at the old house. It is Felton, California, there is gravity.

Could you please arrange to have a plaque placed on the front door saying that this house is a significant historical property? If so, I wouldn’t notice, but other people will. And, it could save the house.