[LRflex] Re: Franks Highland Park Camera Store
- From: Otto Rath <orath2001@xxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:58:57 -0800 (PST)
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There might still be some hidden and outdated treasures in all that jumble for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
>
>
>
>
> No virus found in this outgoing message.
> Checked by AVG.
> Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.10.16/1926 - Release
> Date: 1/30/2009
> 5:31 PM
__________________________________________________________________
Instant Messaging, free SMS, sharing photos and more... Try the new Yahoo!
Canada Messenger at http://ca.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/
------
Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at:
http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/
Archives are at:
//www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/
Other related posts:
