Servicing display ads for the Richmond Review, just a few years ago, in nineteen seventy three. Herb Gates, the publisher, an old cigar he would chew. In the rubber cement days that’s how the biz used to be. The basic display ad. One would have to sketch and then attach, with rubber cement. Computerization was in its infancy and manually us humans with typewriters would basically manually toil. With these heavy monstrosities still with-out electricity everything hopefully clicked, perhaps Underwood or Royal.
Then later at The Surrey Leader, in Cloverdale, the job was to chase the news with a film camera like a Minolta. Not a reflex Pentax Spotomatic, just a basic rangefinder for focusing, trying visually always being Johny on the spot, it would entail capturing local events to see what developed. With good old Kodak Tri-x film. Images of fire engines, sports, local politics in that darkroom with glowing safelight, I would have to process the rolls, screen, print and caption the essential local news pics. What an adventure, and those old community newspaper days still wets the old appetite.
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