Jim Galli Museum Proposal

[rrankin]

In light of the Jim Galli lovefest that's been going on around here lately, I propose a permanent honor. While I'm sure Jim is grateful for everyone's appreciation, I would suspect he might be a bit embarassed by the PDA (public display of affection for those of you without kids). and might be tired of reading all the threads. I've dealt with him several times and was pleased as well, but don't feel like posting in all those different threads. So, let's simplify.

I propose a Jim Galli Crappy Lens With No Waterhouse Stops Museum. I have already scouted a location and taken a photo of it (attached) with film I got from Jim, and in a holder I got from Jim. Unfortunately, the camera, lens, tripod, tripod head, paper, fixer, water etc, etc came from elsewhere, but I did the best I could to use Jim stuff and to find a place worthy of housing many an apertureless meniscus... An old oil-burning stove is included, and 2 miles down the road is a classic car junkyard where the owner doesn't care if you photograph the old cars..

I figure this is perfect: all those guys with a SuperDuperApoDapper Symmar XYL3C will feel that we brassies deserve a place just like this. And most of us brassies won't even notice that the place is sort of a fixer-upper. After all, we are used to living on the dark and leaky side.

Before I start taking donations to buy the place, I thought maybe input from others was in order.

BTW, the real estate agent stopped by in his jeans and boots while I was shooting this . He took me for a 'tour' which mainly consisted of him banging on decrepit walls, and me hoping that the place didn't cave in. But, we brassies like to live on the edge...

Cheers, Richard

 

[cperez]

Excellent! Where will you put the statue of Jim? In the tree? Or in the shed?

 

[Brook]

Perhaps a metal locker for the lending library of old brass and glass, just in case the place does fall down.

 

[Aggie]

Excellent! Where will you put the statue of Jim? In the tree? Or in the shed?

Everything looks better when over the septic tank.

 

[dmax]

The actual museum shoud be underground, to better approximate Jim's seemingly inexhaustible (and inacessible) supply of treasures. A few disposable brass lenses embedded in the tunnel walls will drive home the point a bit further. Entrance to the shack should be password protected, executed with well-rehearsed passages from the Vade Mecum, preferably in obscure Latin. Pictures of the Board of Trustees (done in glass plates) could hang from the leaning walls. Lifetime memberships to the museum can fund the Lens Recovery Project, which entails tracking down treasures yet uncovered elsewhere and documenting their lineage, as well as their image circles.

 

[blaze-on]

It should be guarded by a big boulder that rolls down on you after you remove a lens from its pier, with little pygmies armed with blow guns to chase you should you be successful removing the holy grail of meniscus lenses. A mote with gigantic pythons (not full monty ones) that will crush you like a bad zeiss tessar should you outrun and not get crushed by said boulder or pickled by the poison of the blow gun wielding pygmies.

Should you escape all that, you deserve the $90 lens..

 

[jimgalli]

No pygmies needed, my little green friends from area 51 have all volunteered. They're iffy about the structure in the photo though Richard. They're used to concrete.

 

[roteague]

I have an old Kiron 28-105 that I would donate. I've got a Vivital Series I 70-210 as well.

 

[rrankin]

Jim, you can't fool me, I saw ET. I know those little green guys will forget all about that concrete if we give them Reese's Pieces. There are plenty of missile silos in Missouri they can play in anyway. It'll be like a Martian Disneyland. Not only that, the land is posted, so we don't have to worry about Cheney showing up in deer or turkey season. Well, maybe in turkey season...

Richard

 

[Steve Hamley]

I can see the future eBay ad by Dagor77 now:

"I was riding across the desert on a one-eared mule following a ragged map of a legendary lens stash hidden in a shack in the Nevada desert near Tonopah. Legend has it that aliens from Area 51 escaped and robbed a prominent lens collector of all his treasured brass barreled lenses because optics of such character could not be made by the denizens in the Alpha Centuri systems. When pursued by the military, they stashed the lenses under the floor boards of the shack in a box labeled "Carl Zeiss" so no one would steal them if they were found..."

Steve

 

[Aggie]

combine the museum with Ari's darkroom and you don't need to guard it.

 

[Capocheny]

I can see the future eBay ad by Dagor77 now:

"I was riding across the desert on a one-eared mule following a ragged map of a legendary lens stash hidden in a shack in the Nevada desert near Tonopah. Legend has it that aliens from Area 51 escaped and robbed a prominent lens collector of all his treasured brass barreled lenses because optics of such character could not be made by the denizens in the Alpha Centuri systems. When pursued by the military, they stashed the lenses under the floor boards of the shack in a box labeled "Carl Zeiss" so no one would steal them if they were found..."

Steve

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Steve,

That is just TOO funny!

A fine tribute to Andrew's sense of humor!

Cheers

 

[Dan Fromm]

Um, who's going to stuff Jim and put him on permanent display?

 

[noseoil]

I think we could persuade Zoe to do the job on jim. Although a newbie to the forum, she seems to have the inclination already. tim

 

[JohnArs]

The only thing I do not understand is why is it not long ago been done!
But the building has to be a huge lens so it has to be round and with a lens cup!
Diameter of at least 80 feets and it has to have no shutter on it!
It has to look like an old Petzwal!
Go for it Jim!

 

[cperez]

So we're up to two edifaces of Sir James. One statue and one real article stuffed. Will we still have room for the optics?

I just hope the moths don't get to the stuffed version of Jim like they did Roy's horse Trigger.

Um, who's going to stuff Jim and put him on permanent display?

 

[rrankin]

Hey, with Jim's frequent references to his beloved margueritas, I reckon we could just PICKLE him instead of stuffing. But I'm not volunterring any of my single malts...

Cheers, Richard