[HUG ] Re: The Swedish Square
- From: Mark Rabiner <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:04:40 -0500
> 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 didn¹t make it to that one but the ones in Winnetka and then downtown
> Chicago I¹d go to and look at everything till they¹d 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.
That¹s the one I really wanted to work at.
Mark William Rabiner
markrabiner.com
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