01-31-2021, 05:32 PM
Was musing today on some various after-the-fact things you learn from a pandemic. Late news, mostly. Have a random conversation and learn, "Oh yeah, so-and-so just recovered from Covid ..." or whatever.
It's not reasonable to know about every instance of things impacted by the virus but that doesn't stop the news from being a bummer.
Today I was browsing photo topics online and was curious to see what Dury's might be up to. Nothing, actually. Dury's in metro Nashville permanently closed May of last year, after 8 weeks of having to close their door because of the virus. Dury's had been in business 138 years. One of George Eastman's first dealers, they also advertised the "Kodaks" and sold Nashville's first one.
I'd been to the store twice, staffed with a few middle-aged men of the sort that had surely been there for years. In a nondescript strip mall, the store wasn't terribly busy, as remaining camera stores tend not to be. But it was well-stocked with accessories and their cameras were competitively priced IMO. I picked up some supplies at prices better than I could get online.
The Dury's came to America after being nudged out of Germany. They had expressed a little too publicly their admiration for folks like Washington and Jefferson --- and the democratic ideals associated with them --- to remain at home.
Part 1 of this (linked at the Part 3 post) from the Nashville Public Library, provides a little history:
https://library.nashville.org/blog/2020/...bute-durys
Parts 2 and 3 are diary translations from George Sr's wife, from a type of script that was later deleted by the Nazis.
It's not reasonable to know about every instance of things impacted by the virus but that doesn't stop the news from being a bummer.
Today I was browsing photo topics online and was curious to see what Dury's might be up to. Nothing, actually. Dury's in metro Nashville permanently closed May of last year, after 8 weeks of having to close their door because of the virus. Dury's had been in business 138 years. One of George Eastman's first dealers, they also advertised the "Kodaks" and sold Nashville's first one.
I'd been to the store twice, staffed with a few middle-aged men of the sort that had surely been there for years. In a nondescript strip mall, the store wasn't terribly busy, as remaining camera stores tend not to be. But it was well-stocked with accessories and their cameras were competitively priced IMO. I picked up some supplies at prices better than I could get online.
The Dury's came to America after being nudged out of Germany. They had expressed a little too publicly their admiration for folks like Washington and Jefferson --- and the democratic ideals associated with them --- to remain at home.
Part 1 of this (linked at the Part 3 post) from the Nashville Public Library, provides a little history:
https://library.nashville.org/blog/2020/...bute-durys
Parts 2 and 3 are diary translations from George Sr's wife, from a type of script that was later deleted by the Nazis.