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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Camera store graveyard
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:19:08 -0400

Cambridge Camera  was a hissing snake in the grass.
The personification of pure evil.
47th was worse.
-- 
Mark R.



> From: "W. R. Smith" <wrs111445 at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:52:10 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Camera store graveyard
> 
> I bought a Russkie Practika TTL SLR from  Cambridge Camera mail order from
> Houston in 1970 and returned it by registered mail to them almost 
> immediately,
> as it was defective (as I recall it was the meter). They refused to answer 
> my
> numerous letters over 1 year, so I mailed a complaint letter to the new NYC
> Consumer Affairs Commissioner, Bess Meyerson Grant (a former Miss 
> America), w/
> a copy to them. I got a new camera ASAP. Not sorry to see that name gone.
> 
> --- On Mon, 8/15/11, Steven Beckham <ecoprof10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Steven Beckham <ecoprof10 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Camera store graveyard
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Monday, August 15, 2011, 8:39 AM
> 
> This too is my first post on the LUG. Like many, I spent a lot of time
> looking at those ads in Modern Photography etc. and dreaming.? Living in
> "fly over country" I could not imagine the amount of choice offered by 
> those
> stores.? Last year was my first time in NYC--you can bet I went by B & H.
> It was heaven--pure photographic heaven.???Sorry to see all those names 
> gone
> though.
> 
> Steve Beckham
> 
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at 
> rabinergroup.com>wrote:
> 
>> Its like the FBI most wanted list of famous camera store rip offs finally
>> in
>> the end blocked from selling gray market in Pop photography and also I
>> think
>> shutterbug which is way they went thank god under and we don't hear about
>> them any more. In the 70's and 80s it was the back of pop and modern
>> photography.? You had to be very careful who you did business with becuae
>> the magazines then didn't care.
>> I'd put a (good riddance!) on a few more of them then just one.
>> --
>> Mark R.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> From: David Freedman <dpfreedman at gmail.com>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:36:28 -0400
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Camera store graveyard
>>> 
>>> I *never* post to the LUG but this really hit home (being a life-long New
>>> Yorker). To add to the list (all were in Manhattan):
>>> 
>>> Executive Photo
>>> Olden Camera
>>> 47th Street Photo
>>> Cambridge Camera (good riddance!)
>>> Garden Camera
>>> Wall Street Camera
>>> Sharp Photo
>>> Rechovos Camera
>>> Competitive Camera
>>> Bi-Rite Camera
>>> Profoto (not sure of the name/spelling; was on the block with Spiratone
>> and,
>>> I believe, Willoughby)
>>> 
>>> I'm sure I'll think of a few others.
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> What happens when you cling to old technology too long. New York is the
>>>> graveyard of old photo stores. Remember Willoughby, Camera Barn,
>> Spiratone,
>>>> etc.
>>>> 
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/NYC+old+photo+store.jpg.html
>>>> 
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/NYC+old+photo+store.jpg.html
>>>> 
>>>> Larry Z
>>>> 
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