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Re: Not Made in USA (Despite Appearance) WAS:RE: Neighborhood Midget fi

To: spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Not Made in USA (Despite Appearance) WAS:RE: Neighborhood Midget find
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:46:34 -0700 (PDT)
proly means the cameras were put in those stupid vending machines by
hardworking american grunt laborers.

--- KGROWLER@aol.com wrote:
> Chip Mautz" <gacarnut@myway.com> wrote
> 
> <<<Then, I'm in Sanibel Island, Florida, on vacation, looking at hats
> made by 
> Panama Jack.  On the inside it says "Made with love and care in
> CHINA...".>>>
> 
> The one that got me last week was one I found at work. I manage a
> camera 
> store in downtown Chicago. A customer turned in a single-use camera
> for 
> processing. Very patriotic - labeled "Americamera". Stars and stripes
> and American eagle 
> packaging stickers applied front and back. I didn't know whether to
> open it 
> up and take out the film, or salute it. Opening it up, the film
> cartridge was 
> labeled "Made in Japan". A closer look at the back revealed tiny,
> hard to read, 
> shadowed type that said "Camera made in China, Packaged in USA" Not
> sure 
> whether that means only that the stickers were applied stateside. No
> notation as 
> to whether the stickers were printed in the US or came from overseas
> as well. 
> More appealing than solid red or hammers & sickles I suppose.
> 
> Kim Tonry
> Downers Grove, IL, USA



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