https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2016...hat-began-1939
The last gasp effort wasn't good enough.
I still wonder where they threw all the parts from the huge warehouse.
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2016...hat-began-1939
The last gasp effort wasn't good enough.
I still wonder where they threw all the parts from the huge warehouse.
I thought they died a long time ago...
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They started some time ago.... but they had a lot of stuff to unload.
Bummer...use to be a regular customer. Their catalog was the best. Wish I still had one but I'd probably just cry all over it
Too bad. They brought us many Caltars and other wonderful things.
How sad.
My first view camera was a 4x5 Calumet, purchased in their store in the Empire State Building in NYC, way back when.
Calumet was gone with the bankruptcy. What just closed was three Ritz Camera stores masquerading as Calumet.
It has been a long slow slide down hill. I only bought one thing from them years ago and their price was higher than everyone else in Los Angeles. In Virginia I used Penn Photo until they got bought by Calumet about the time I retired and started living full time in Los Angeles.
Nothing beats a great piece of glass!
I leave the digital work for the urologists and proctologists.
But 4 years ago, I could bike 2 miles and buy NOS C1 parts. And any film I wanted from the huge fridge. Then Helix went, then...
I gotta get to Central Camera this week!
they killed Fidelity; Zone VI; and countless other businesses that they bought..gee who would have thought??
goodbye Calumet...and watch the door so it don't kick you in the ass on the way out!!
I rather say I miss Lens and Repro; now that was a fun place
best, peter
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