[LRflex] Re: Franks Highland Park Camera Store

Hi Aram,

certainly shows our age,eh?
I remember studying their cluttered ads in PopPhoto (or Shutterbug);
similar to another oldtimer "Spiratone" in the backpages.
There might still be some hidden and outdated  treasures in all that jumble for 
bargain-hunters and nostalgic souls.

Enjoy your Novoflex Focusing Rail (CASTEL Einstellschlitten?); I still use mine 
with Novoflex manual bellows with Leica lensheads 90/135mm and enlarging lenses 
on Nikons and L'flexes.

Greetings from snowy Toronto - OTTO -


--- On Sat, 1/31/09, Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [LRflex] Franks Highland Park Camera Store
> To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Received: Saturday, January 31, 2009, 2:15 PM
> On my recent trip to LA, we took the Gold Line rail and one
> of the stops is
> in Highland Park.  As I looked out the window I saw painted
> on a building
> Franks Highland Park Camera Store and just had to get off
> the train and go
> see.  It had been perhaps 30 years since I had been there. 
> I thought it was
> closed and was going to get a few shots of the front of the
> building, but
> the door was open.  Walking in was like stepping into a
> time machine.  The
> place was cluttered, every counter and shelf covered with
> old camera items.
> Old chemicals and paper filled one section.  The shelves
> were stocked with
> names I hadn't heard about in years.  Most were brand
> new in the box.  Like
> a museum.  I managed a few shots of the interior.  There
> were some gentlemen
> in the central cage (office) and as we were looking around,
> a lady came to
> help.  She was very talkative.  It would take a whole day
> to look around to
> see if they had anything, but my eye caught a Novoflex box
> and I asked what
> it was.  She pulled it out and a new Novoflex focusing rail
> appeared.  I had
> been toying with the idea of a focusing rail, and she made
> me an offer I
> took, so I walked out with a purchase.  Sounds like it had
> been closed for
> years while they dabbled in real estate a bit, but she was
> opening it again.
> One other customer came in and she seemed like she was
> going to order him a
> digital Canon SLR that would come in next week.  
> 
>  
> 
> Brought back memories.  Not that I was a regular customer
> there, but a few
> times when visiting my father-in-law drove me to Franks and
> Olympic Camera
> to see what I could find.  I remember it as chaotic and
> cluttered then.  It
> is just cluttered now.
> 
>  
> 
> HYPERLINK
> "http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/jan09/misc/"http://gallery.leica-user
> s.org/v/Aram/jan09/misc/
> 
>  
> 
> Here are the shots of the interior.  
> 
>  
> 
> Aram
> 
>  
> 
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