[Leica] IMG: My Favorite Camera Store Closes

[Peter Klein]

Sic transit gloria mundi. And Gloria was a sweet lady.
--Peter

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwmalumni.com>
wrote:

> Camera Center, which had been on the corner of Capitol Drive and Bartlett
> Avenue in Shorewood since 1972, is closing this week.  It might have been
> the last camera store east of 76th Street (I don't think there are any
> camera shops in the city of Milwaukee anymore).  It used to have a thriving
> collectible camera section. I bought my first M3 + 50/2 collapsible
> Summicron here, as well as a near-mint IIIf + 50/2 collapsible Summicron,
> 4x5 RB Graflex, 4x5 Speed Graphic, Ansco Super-Speedex, Voigtlander Bessa
> II, Majestic tripod, and many miscellaneous gadgets.  Lately, it was still
> selling a fair amount of film and chemicals to photo students at local
> colleges.  My alma mater, UWM, where I used to work, still teaches chemical
> based photography (as well as digital).
>
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> Their back door LEICA sign had already been sold.
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>
> --
> Alan
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
> (Retired)
> UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
> UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
> amr3 at uwm.edu
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>
> "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
>  for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
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