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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