Dad didn't let me touch his Yashica 44 camera. So, it was a complete surprise when he let me step outside the Old Time
r's Tavern on York Avenue to take this picture. The bartender, Jack Saunders, was busting his chops after he heard Dad tell me to put the camera down a fifth or sixth time. "The kid wants to be Jimmy Olsen, give him a break, Bob." Dad gave Jack the look, but Jack kept at him. "He wants to immortalize you in this place." 
After telling me how to hold the camera, how to focus, where to stand, what button to push and how fast to push it, Dad, reluctantly, let me go outside.
I stood on a milk box to level me off with the guys.
In the photo: on the left is Phil Hanerfield; Dad, to Phil's right with butt and beer; then four guys whose names I don't remember.
r's Tavern on York Avenue to take this picture. The bartender, Jack Saunders, was busting his chops after he heard Dad tell me to put the camera down a fifth or sixth time. "The kid wants to be Jimmy Olsen, give him a break, Bob." Dad gave Jack the look, but Jack kept at him. "He wants to immortalize you in this place." 
After telling me how to hold the camera, how to focus, where to stand, what button to push and how fast to push it, Dad, reluctantly, let me go outside.
I stood on a milk box to level me off with the guys.
In the photo: on the left is Phil Hanerfield; Dad, to Phil's right with butt and beer; then four guys whose names I don't remember.
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