[Leica] Franks highland Park Camera Store

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What a wonderful place! Truly a great place to get lost in. I just  
love shops like this, and always get fascinated by some strange gadget  
from the 60s or 70s that has something to do with film and which I'm  
immediately sure I cannot live any longer without.

Cheers, Paul.

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On 31 Jan 2009, at 20:15, Aram Langhans wrote:

> 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.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/jan09/misc/
>
> Here are the shots of the interior.
>
> Aram
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