[LRflex] Franks Highland Park Camera Store
- From: "Aram Langhans" <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:15:39 -0800
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.
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Here are the shots of the interior.
Aram
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