Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Rich, That store apparently does not exist anymore, since I would certainly have noticed it. But there is a very good Leica dealer call Foto Ganz on a side street to Bahnhofstrasse (Rennweg). Again, what really impressed me was the fact that Leica cameras and lenses are available even at smallish neighborhood dealers, analogous to the Ritz Camera stores in U.S. shopping malls. Nathan Rich Lahrson wrote: > Hi Nathan! > > I spent my teenage years in Zurich as my family moved there in '59. I > remember the big Koch store on the Bahnhof Strasse. But you could get better > buys at some of the out of the way discount houses. I believe Koch is the > inventor of the Sinar. Their store always had the best displays of cameras > in the store front window. I was reading somewhere that the Bahnhof Strasse > is the most expensive real estate in the world. > > Cheers, > > Rich Lahrson > tripspud@wenet.net - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium and Zurich, Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/