[rollei_list] Re: Toyota (Tecate) Grand Prix, Long Beach CA

  • From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:53:02 -0800

Don

I was at that LBGP in 1976 and I don't remember seeing you there :-)

But I did see a great number of what were called "starlets" then. I had
just come to Downey that day to start working on the Space Shuttle
and the motel owner gave me tickets to the LBGP.

I did not have a Rollei with me so I had to use a Leica with many
lenses.

Jerry


Don Williams wrote:

> At 05:30 PM 3/27/2006 -0800, Slobodan wrote:
>
>> Yes, Eric. However, in this activity, ortho-praxis of the spectacle
>> is everything. It's no worse, or better, than any other human
>> activity. If anything, seeing the level of passion that it can
>> elicit, it's no surprise that car racing is the number one sport in
>> the country. Never mind the charged level of pheromones that by the
>> end of the second day of racing is wafting through the whole
>> atmosphere.
>>
>> Slobodan Dimitrov
>> Studio G-8,
>> Angels Gate Cultural Center
>> http://sdimitrovphoto.com
>
>
> I went to what I recall as the second LB Grand Prix and shot both
> racing pictures and pictures of people.  I'm not sure how to say it so
> I'll just say it:
>
> One of the outstanding things I remember taking pictures of are of the
> many "ladies" with extradorniarliy large upper parts.  Wish I could
> find those shots.  There were just so many!  Guess it goes with
> racing.  Never brought them out with my wife around, so I must have
> tucked them away in a safe place.
>
> Because they had rather poor crowd control, I could go just about
> anywhere and take pictures there for 10-15 minutes until someone found
> me and hauled me off.  I got to places where I could shoot head-in at
> turns, in turns, and at the back of the cars at turns.  Very
> interesting, and now I realize, not really good judgement on my part.
> The barriers they had then (and now I suppose) were not that good if
> you were leaning against them to shoot through the rails or bars.
>
> I also got some shots of Mario Andretti pulling into a little by-way
> (the course was not so clean those days) and throwing his helmet to
> the ground.  I think he had killed his car.
>
> I went again several years later when a company I bought from
> sponsored a car and we had pit passes.  About the only memorable shot
> from then was one I had someone else take of me and
>
> Kirstie Alley in a tight hold.  She was very trim in those days.
>
> I think, therefore, I have both racing pictures and "racing culture"
> pictures.
>
> Regards, and have fun.
>
>
>
>
>
> Don Williams
> La Jolla, CA
>
>
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