How many Deardorff cameras are there now?

[diversey]

I got an answer from Ken Hough today and he told me my Deardorff V8 wad sold in 1959. I was wondering how many Deardorff cameras were made or out there now.

[koh303]

about 6000 -7000 total from the original factory is what i came up with.

[John Kasaian]

Say, you're not planning on cornering the market on 'dorffs are you?
Iggy Farquart tried to do that back in '49.
It was a big mistake.
My V-8 came from Iggy's estate via a mysterious dwarf who claimed to have been Iggy's chauffeur, driving Iggy in a 1940 Packard Phaeton to the meanest sections of Chicago at all hours, negotiating to buy all the Deardorffs from studios who shot all the Sears and Monkey Wards catalogs. Iggy's chauffeur always had a pet iguana perched on his shoulder, which is why he was mysterious. He had a saber scar on his cheeks and spoke with a thick Moldavian accent too, but that's not unusual in stories like this.
Iggy's plan almost succeeded too, except that his girlfriend, a saloon singer with a penchant for Wrigley's Spearmint chewing gum from Peoria named Dahlia, took up with Cruiser McGurn the famous boxing champion of the Pacific Fleet, because all Iggy cared for, or wanted to talk about was his growing collection of Deardorffs (and it was impressive---nearly a thousand of them warehoused in an old dirigible hangar in Akron according to an interview with sportscaster Harry Caray who got lost on his way to the Berghoff and accidentally crashed his '47 Buick through one of the walls and into the hangar.) Also, the ignored Dahlia wasn't getting any younger and Iggy was deathly allergic to engagement rings . While Cruiser and Dahlia were out on the town, Iggy decided to take his girl back. Iggy caught up with the pair at Southport Lanes and there was a fight and the rest, as they say, is History.

[Tin Can]

Say, you're not planning on cornering the market on 'dorffs are you?
Iggy Farquart tried to do that back in '49.
It was a big mistake.
My V-8 came from Iggy's estate via a mysterious dwarf who claimed to have been Iggy's chauffeur, driving Iggy in a 1940 Packard Phaeton to the meanest sections of Chicago at all hours, negotiating to buy all the Deardorffs from studios who shot all the Sears and Monkey Wards catalogs. Iggy's chauffeur always had a pet iguana perched on his shoulder, which is why he was mysterious. He had a saber scar on his cheeks and spoke with a thick Moldavian accent too, but that's not unusual in stories like this.
Iggy's plan almost succeeded too, except that his girlfriend, a saloon singer with a penchant for Wrigley's Spearmint chewing gum from Peoria named Dahlia, took up with Cruiser McGurn the famous boxing champion of the Pacific Fleet, because all Iggy cared for, or wanted to talk about was his growing collection of Deardorffs (and it was impressive---nearly a thousand of them warehoused in an old dirigible hangar in Akron according to an interview with sportscaster Harry Caray who got lost on his way to the Berghoff and accidentally crashed his '47 Buick through one of the walls and into the hangar.) Also, the ignored Dahlia wasn't getting any younger and Iggy was deathly allergic to engagement rings . While Cruiser and Dahlia were out on the town, Iggy decided to take his girl back. Iggy caught up with the pair at Southport Lanes and there was a fight and the rest, as they say, is History.

Plausible. Southport Lanes proved your veracity...How many alleys? And what is unusual about the place?

I heard of 500 Studio 11X14 SC11's as a production total for that model, not all sold with Bi-Post. Some big catalog houses, like Montgomery Wards used as many as 80 in one building...That building is huge and still looks great by the river.

[John Kasaian]

Plausible. Southport Lanes proved your veracity...How many alleys? And what is unusual about the place?

I heard of 500 Studio 11X14 SC11's as a production total for that model, not all sold with Bi-Post. Some big catalog houses, like Montgomery Wards used as many as 80 in one building...That building is huge and still looks great by the river.

I'm just a California boy, but Iggy's chauffeur's dying words to me (right after he delivered my V-8 he suffered a poisoned dart to his neck, apparently from an Amazonian blow gun) was about a bowling alley where the pins were hand set by pin boys and some kind of painted mural portraying nymphs.
Does that sound like Southport lanes?

[Tin Can]

I'm just a California boy, but Iggy's chauffeur's dying words to me (right after he delivered my V-8 he suffered a poisoned dart to his neck, apparently from an Amazonian blow gun) was about a bowling alley where the pins were hand set by pin boys and some kind of painted mural portraying nymphs.
Does that sound like Southport lanes?

It also has only 8 lanes and my crew used to rent the whole place for parties. Then we would pay the pin setter boys to knock pins over so we could win our huge bets. Payoffs the Chicago Way.

[John Kasaian]

The stuff of Legends.

[William Whitaker]

The stuff of Legends.

...or Dagor77 ramblings!

[Jac@stafford.net]

Oi, John K., sell that story line and be wealthy!
The Cohen brothers would go nutz for it!
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[Byclops]

But you left out the "Dude."