[HUG ] Re: The Swedish Square

Re: [HUG ] Re: The Swedish SquareI never worked in a camera store.  But, when 
we lived in Los Angeles in '53, there was one I used to haunt a lot, 
conveniently halfway between home and school.  Back then, I was lusting after a 
6X9 Speed Graphic - who knows why?  The store owner was very patient with the 
overweight 13-year-old drooling on his display case.

The last real camera store I saw (other than Ritz, Blitz or Glitz) was in 
Pittsburgh in '03.  Hope it's still there......

Bill
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Robert Meier 
  To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 11:40 PM
  Subject: [HUG ] Re: The Swedish Square


  Mark,

  I worked in The Camera Shop on Green Bay in Wilmette when I was in high 
school at New Trier.   I thought it was heaven -- I could look at, and 
sometimes handle, all the Leicas and I got a big discount on film and darkroom 
chemicals.   There was an elderly man who also worked there part time who liked 
to show me the nudes in Grosbild Technik, which were something not seen in 
American magazines then, the early 60's.  Art, the owner, retired many years 
ago to fish in Wisconsin.  You missed out on a great experience.

  Robert

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Mark Rabiner 
    To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 11:16 PM
    Subject: [HUG ] Re: The Swedish Square


    I always wanted to work in a camera store since I was 13.
    Still may it seems often there's a good chance I may.

    I wanted to work in the Glencoe Camera store.
    Its a starbucks now I went back and visited.
    North Shore Chicago.

    Now I'm on the upper west side NYC.
    All the small cool camera stores are shells of themselves and not really 
around.
    Not sure if the real big ones would work out for me.

    Normally in any sales job I outsell everyone in the building.

    I could sell an ice cube to an Eskimo.
    But who knows maybe I've lost my touch.




    Mark William Rabiner
    markrabiner.com

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