When they had a store in New York, I'd occasionally buy hard to find items there, provided that I could walk in, see the item, and buy it over the counter for a reasonable price. It seems like they never returned any merchandise, so I could find things like Komura lenses for the Bronica S2a or a battery pack for the Canon motor drive for the New F-1 as "new old stock" long after their manufacture had ended.
When I used to work in NYC a friend recommended that I stay away from them & a few others.
As a sidenote is Olden camera still there? I'm stretching my memory but recall that they were the yellow paged people in the mail order sections of the photo mags - for us oldtimers this was the current version of perusing online used equipment way back & the only option short of having contacts set up to alert you when certain items became available.
I'm not sure if Olden is still there in Herald Square or not. I haven't stopped in for some time. I think I noticed last time I was walking through the square that they didn't have an ad on the billboard like they used to, but on the other hand, the income from a billboard like that is probably enough to keep the store afloat, camera sales aside, if Olden actually owns the billboard. I think they're still in business.
Olden are still there. You enter through a novelty store on Broadway and go up the elevator. Sort of a different entrance. It still seems to have quite a bit of inventory.
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