[LRflex] Re: Franks Highland Park Camera Store

That`s one hell of a store! They even sell film and Minolta lenses. Nowadays
photo stores look like they are selling computers.

Thanks for sharing Aram.

Miha



2009/1/31 Otto Rath <orath2001@xxxxxxxx>

> 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 There might still be some hidden and outdated  treasures in all that jumble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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> > 5:31 PM
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