One of my favorites pastimes as a kid was to peruse the various professional telescope and observatory ads in Sky & Telescope magazine. I started subscribing just as Group 128 was ceasing operations. But I remember gazing wistfully at the Boller and Chivens ads -- they, the vendor of beauutiful 16-inch and up telescopes. At the tender age of 13 or 14, I swore I would own one someday, housed tastefully in an Observa-Dome Laboratories dome on some remote mountain top. Alas, that has not transpired, but I can still hope!
Meanwhile, it has surfaced that not much is widely known about Boller and Chivens. However, relatively recently, numerous images have been posted in an attempt to solicit information about their operations. Do check out the images and please contribute if you know something about them.
http://www.chesmontastro.org/?q=node/4355
