[Leica] RE: Sign of the Times

[jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)]

My kind of camera store was the old K&B Camera store on Canal Street. Very 
little walking space, and crammed to the rafters with stuff.

Liberty Camera flooded and is gone. Bennett's is still there. Moldaner's 
flooded worse than anyone (about 8 feet of water) and moved over near 
Camellia Grill on Carrollton. Maple St. Camera is gone. Alfredo's is now a 
giant high rise parking lot.

There is a place with darkroom supplies near me (called The Darkroom). The 
only cameras they have are Holgas. Other than the chains like Wolf Camera, 
that is about it.
--
Jeffery

---- Wayne Torry <wtorry@vbar.com> wrote: 
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> Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 15:58:21 -0400
> From: Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net>
> Subject: [Leica] A sign of the times
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> On Tuesday I drove to "Lakeside Camera", one of the larger photographic
> supply stores in the metropolitan area. They no longer stock darkroom
> supplies.
> 
> The ship appears to be pulling away from the dock.....
> --
> Jeffery
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> Jeffery,
> 
> That is a shame. I was one of their earliest customers at the original
> location. I bought a Koni-Omega 100 and a Pentax 6x7 many moons ago. The
> cameras are gone, but I still have a tripod I bought at Lakeside Camera.
> Jeffery, you say one of the larger supply stores. Besides Bennett's down
> the street, who else is left? I could stroll down memory lane...the K&B
> camera store upstairs on Canal Street, Alfredo's, Liberty, St. Charles
> Camera (I still have my first Komura LTM purchased there new),
> Moldaner's, etc., etc.
> 
> It's no surprise that specialized film & darkroom supplies are
> disappearing from New Orleans. A lot of things have disappeared from New
> Orleans post-Katrina including me. I reckon the internet has as much to
> do with it as anything else. It's too easy to have things shipped to
> your door.
> 
> Hang in there! I appreciate your visions of a city I called home for an
> eon or so.
> 
> Cheers, Wayne
> 
> 
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