[HUG ] Re: The Swedish Square

Re: [HUG ] Re: The Swedish SquareThe best one was in Evanston, Hoos Drug.   
They had every camera and darkroom gadget ever made!

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Rabiner 
  To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 5:04 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




    I didn't make it to that one but the ones in Winnetka and then downtown 
Chicago I'd go to and look at everything till they'd kick me out.
    from around 1965 to 1970, ages 13 to 18.

        Phototronics  ahs always been on Elm I think.



  I forgot the name of the long lasting one on Elm and Chestnut on the west 
side of Greenbay Rd.
  Center or Sandy's or something.

  That's the one I really wanted to work at.

  Mark William Rabiner
  markrabiner.com

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