Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] re: frugal plug
From: S Dimitrov <sld@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 07:45:35 -0800
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It is long gone. For a while he held on by providing B/W printing for
the acting crowd, but eventually that also evaporated. The Building is
till there, I think it's been placed on some kind of local landmark register.
I used to buy reloads and 100 foot rolls from Freestyle back in the
70's. I even applied for a job there once. The position was manning the
35mm hole punching machine in total darkness. They would take unused
film stock, government and industry surplus, and cut it down to usable
film stock sizes. The only other job that was close to this interesting,
which I also didn't get, would of been working as a night usher at the
Pussycat Theatre. Gotta tell ya, nothing like college days jobs. 

 Slobodan Dimitrov


Roland Smith wrote:
> 
> Hello Slobodan:
> 
> Your comments remind me of the late 1950s when I purchased supplies from
> Hollywood Camera on Sunset near vine.
> 
> I purchased studio short ends of 35mm Plus X in odd length rolls for a cent
> and a half a foot. It was frozen out of date film and worked very well.
> 
> They carried 400 foot photographic paper 9.5 inches wide for a very cheap
> price.   With the help of a paper cutter, I printed 8X9.5 inch prints.
> 
> I would go to Drewry Photocolor in Glendale and obtain reloadable Ansco and
> Ektachrome cassettes by the bucket load from their scrap pile.
> 
> I was in College in Eagle Rock, Occidental College, and did not have much
> money to support my hobby.   I did sell pictures to the school newspaper and
> the annual. which helped.
> 
> Do you know what ever happened to Hollywood Camera?  It was a most
> interesting store.
> 
> Roland Smith
> Oakland, California
> ----- Original Message -----
>
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