[HN Gopher] A History of The Rochester, NY Camera and Lens Compa...
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A History of The Rochester, NY Camera and Lens Companies (1974)
Author : brudgers
Score : 53 points
Date : 2021-06-20 05:21 UTC (1 days ago)
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| notjustanymike wrote:
| As a graduate of RIT I feel comfortable in advising that you
| visit any other city. Rochester is devoid of hope, and was the
| only place that helped me enjoy Ohio.
| ryanSrich wrote:
| Ha. Another RIT grad here. I had the pleasure of growing up in
| Syracuse. Which is another dark and drab city. A shell of its
| former rust belt glory.
|
| When I attended RIT I lived in downtown Rochester. I enjoyed it
| throughly. If you were stuck on campus it likely was a horrible
| time.
| michaelmior wrote:
| As a current faculty member at RIT, I feel comfortable saying I
| love it here. While I can understand how it's not a fit for
| everyone, I think Rochester is a great place to live :)
| avs733 wrote:
| hello fellow Tiger! ('08, '10)
|
| Besides Wegmans, I struggle to argue your point. I really keep
| hoping for change and feel like the opportunity to use the
| local Universities as a source of economic growth just continue
| to be missed.
| notjustanymike wrote:
| The campus is just too far from anything relevant, and
| building it on a swamp probably didn't help. Plus the
| weather, which is best described as seasonally awful.
| avs733 wrote:
| hey now...I liked the weather! I moved to AZ after college
| and would have traded weather in an instant
| sbradford26 wrote:
| I worked in Endicott, NY for a while which is where IBM started
| and I always wished I could see "Upstate" New York in its heyday.
| Eastman Kodak, Corning, GE Research, and IBM all located in
| generally the same area. It basically was the Silicon Valley of
| its day.
| ghaff wrote:
| "Same general area" is doing a fair bit of work there :-)
| Schenectady is probably a 3 or 4 hour drive from Rochester. But
| to your basic point, there were many (and still are a fair bit)
| industrial/technology companies in Westchester and points
| north/west in NY state.
| brudgers wrote:
| It's an east coast west coast thing. Four hours is nothing in
| the west...the drive to the nearest Montana Costco or West
| Texas Walmart so to speak. Four hours of driving from Las
| Vegas just puts you in a more remote part of the desert.
| ghaff wrote:
| I was commenting more on Silicon Valley vs. a much bigger
| area.
|
| But I agree with the basic point (much less a contrast with
| much of Europe).
|
| The first couple of times I planned a trip in the West that
| involved driving to different areas, I remember having to
| significantly modify plans when I realized I'd be driving
| rather than doing hikes.
| stretchwithme wrote:
| I spent my first five years in Rochester. Xerox was very big
| back then. Then I returned to complete my degree at RIT. There
| was a Bausch and Lomb building on campus and another named
| after Kodak. Imaging and vision were very big.
|
| And two of my co-op assignments were with IBM. With the Federal
| Sector Division in Owego and one of the labs in Endicott.
|
| It's actually just a bit over a 2 hour drive from Owego to RIT.
|
| I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs sometimes had that long of a commute
| between Pixar and Apple, given the traffic we have here.
| rpmisms wrote:
| >"Upstate" New York
|
| The area is called Western New York.
| Spooky23 wrote:
| Anything from Mount Vernon to Canada is upstate. Except
| Buffalo, which is over near Chicago.
| evo_9 wrote:
| I always thought the fact that they had their own nuclear reactor
| was pretty crazy: https://news.yahoo.com/news/kodak-had-secret-
| nuclear-reactor...
| test1000z wrote:
| Its entirely upsetting that such a great city has fallen behind
| in the technology space. Remnants are still floating around in
| the city and in the Universities but it is a shell of what was
| once there.
| arthurjj wrote:
| Being an RIT alumni who left for warmer climes I think the
| quality of life issues with upstate New York are underrated by
| people who stay.
|
| I have a decent number of classmates who stayed and can afford
| much larger houses than I can in sunny and expensive
| California. But they need that larger house because they can't
| do anything outside for 5 months of the year.
| michaelmior wrote:
| There's plenty to do outside in the snow for those who aren't
| turned off by the cold. Having grown up in Canada and now
| living in Rochester, I like having actual seasons :)
| ghaff wrote:
| >they can't do anything outside for 5 months of the year
|
| Yes, there's a real snow belt east of the Great Lakes. But
| with respect to there being "winter," you could say the same
| thing about a vast swath of the US. I live near Boston and I
| assure you there are tons of things I can do outside for
| those 5 months.
| brudgers wrote:
| Rochester is just south off Lake Ontario. Watertown is the
| first thing further east.
| steviedotboston wrote:
| There are some signs that it could be poised for a rebound:
|
| https://www.rit.edu/news/rochester-rising-rit-helping-make-r...
|
| https://13wham.com/news/local/some-experts-believe-rochester...
| Finnucane wrote:
| A lot of stuff those guys made is still floating around in
| serviceable condition, even many decades after being
| manufactured.
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