If you're in the Los Angeles area and want a WEIRD camera store experience:

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go to "Frank's Camera" in Highland Park. Better go soon, it ain't gonna be there much longer. Jana will meet you near the door and start talking about how all men should be castrated because they all rape women. It's dark like a cave in there and nothing has been touched since, I'd say, 1988. If you ask to look at something to buy Jana says "she's not in the camera business" anymore and she has other corporations she runs now. Then she'll go off on how all men are rats and how she hates cell phones. There was two other old people in there who were in a side office with stacks of newspapers and unopened mail that reached to the ceiling. If you looked hard you could find a couple of cool super-8 cameras but if you asked to look at them Jana would yell at you and tell you that "men are mother ****ers!"

Seriously, it's like the Twilight Zone in there.

Trust me on this one
 
Moonbeam Brown

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This all sounds perfectly normal to me in a state that would elect Arnold the body builder, womanizer, and than replace him with a old worn out flower child, moonbeam Jerry.
In Ca. ( Alameda Co.) they just had a city fire chief and a police Sargent watch a man drown with out trying to save him. When they were asked by the press why they didn’t help they said they were not trained for water safety. The reported annual salary’s for the two county officials is $450,000. The reporter asked the fire chief if it was a child drowning would they go in to help. The chief said not without training. The dead man s body came to shore and a 16 year old girl waded into the water to bring the body to shore. The the Sargent took the dead body. God I love this state.
 
That sounds like a strange camera store indeed. You know, the one that the OP wrote about.

That would be an interesting thread. I live in Dallas, and there are a couple of weird camera stores here. One of them (I will not name it) has an interesting collection of darkroom supplies, and professional type equipment. I've heard that most of his business is from a few corporate clients who are constantly doing photo shoots for advertising.

But the attitude in that store is a bit overwhelming.
 
I used to shop at Frank's Highland Park Camera, as they had a lot of Pentax gear and knew it well. But that was long ago, and I'm very sorry to hear of such deterioration. Was a good place to shop once...

According to the news, the drowning was a suicide by hypothermia, as the water was 54 degrees. He'd made attempts before and stated his intent. He was a big guy, from what I read 300 pounds, and it would only take a bear hug and he could pull you down with him. Dangerous situation for rescuers. The Coast Guard boat couldn't get into the shallow water, helicopter arrived too late... Sad.
 
Field said:
Stacks of mail reach the ceiling? Take pictures...
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I tried and got screamed at by Jana. "WE'RE NOT ANIMALS IN A CAGE!" I did get a photo of Jana's back as I came in the door.

I told her: you're a camera store. You've made your living off of people taking photos of people FOR 50 YEARS and now you're going to scream at me for taking a photo in a CAMERA store?

She told me to leave. "Ok, see ya around Jana."

I'll post the photo I did take of Jana when my one year with a Leica year comes up.
 
Doug said:
I used to shop at Frank's Highland Park Camera, as they had a lot of Pentax gear and knew it well. But that was long ago, and I'm very sorry to hear of such deterioration. Was a good place to shop once...

According to the news, the drowning was a suicide by hypothermia, as the water was 54 degrees. He'd made attempts before and stated his intent. He was a big guy, from what I read 300 pounds, and it would only take a bear hug and he could pull you down with him. Dangerous situation for rescuers. The Coast Guard boat couldn't get into the shallow water, helicopter arrived too late... Sad.
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That does not explain the child drowning scenario, words from the chief.
 
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