Goldie
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Only the most 'mature' among us will recall Lockhart's Camera Exchange (in a below-street-level shop) in the Temple Building at Bay & Richmond.
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Evocative Images of Lost Toronto
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thecharioteer
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Only the most 'mature' among us will recall Lockhart's Camera Exchange (in a below-street-level shop) in the Temple Building at Bay & Richmond.
Great pic, Goldie! Here's one from Toronto No Mean City. Do you think the window on the right is the same shop?
Goldie
Senior Member
Great pic, Goldie! Here's one from Toronto No Mean City. Do you think the window on the right is the same shop?
Same window, but Lockhart's has obviously moved on - unless that's the entrance on Richmond..
Mustapha
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Only the most 'mature' among us will recall Lockhart's Camera Exchange (in a below-street-level shop) in the Temple Building at Bay & Richmond.
I do miss 'Alt's' camera exchange. It became a Henrys Outlet for a short while before it moved to Mississauga. Every big city downtown needs a 'camera exchange'. Alts sold old film cameras too - which seems to be having a bit of a renaissance - lots of young people (20s) carrying film SLRs nowadays. Like a piece of jewelry around their necks - quite neat to see.
Goldie
Senior Member
This event is not 'downtown' but it's still the greatest place to,buy, sell & trade used photo equipment.
Everything under the sun that's photographic.
Literally thousands of cameras!
Not to be missed by any photographer or student.
The spring event is May 27, 2012 - see attached
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Lone Primate
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T'will NOT be me. I spent most of my life waiting for them to invent their way out of THAT paper bag. When digital finally came out, my knees hit the floor and I wept with joy. Never looked back. Film? That's what you get on milk if you leave it out. "Pushing soup"? That's what Campbell's does. Give me 1s and 0s or give me death.
J T CUNNINGHAM
Senior Member
"Give me 1s and 0s or give me death."
QUOTE Lone Primate.
'Know of what you speak, although not to the the same degree!
(Does this blasphemy mean that Clint and Prof Goldie, as well as Mustapha, will be gunning for us?)
Regards,
J T
QUOTE Lone Primate.
'Know of what you speak, although not to the the same degree!
(Does this blasphemy mean that Clint and Prof Goldie, as well as Mustapha, will be gunning for us?)
Regards,
J T
Goldie
Senior Member
Lone Primate
Active Member
Well, I should probably say that I don't mean it in any absolute sense... I'm speaking purely for myself.
At the risk of sounding condescending, I appreciate that there's real artistry in film photography. Quite honestly, I couldn't do it. When I had a film SLR in the late 80s and early 90s, I had no patience for it. For me, it was frustrating not knowing if a shot was any good till someone else produced it... having to wait till the whole roll was shot and the film developed and the prints made, and all of that costing money at every step. It just didn't work for me. I wanted it to, but it didn't. I knew I was waiting for something more immediate, more like working with audio. Then in '97 I saw the Kodak DC25--a real crappy camera any $120 bottom-of-the-line camera today could run circles around--and it was like the angels sang.For me, I mean. For those of you who get film photography and the craft of it, I sincerely salute (and faintly envy) you. But for me, it's CCD, CMOS, and the 'Shop.
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J T CUNNINGHAM
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"Well, I should probably say that I don't mean it in any absolute sense... I'm speaking purely for myself."
QUOTE Lone Primate.
I WANT GUARANTIES!
(At the least 3, if not 4. - See above.)
Regards,
J T
(LOL)
QUOTE Lone Primate.
I WANT GUARANTIES!
(At the least 3, if not 4. - See above.)
Regards,
J T
(LOL)
Goldie
Senior Member
Distillery millstone
Canada day 1996
Canada day 1996
thecharioteer
Senior Member
Canada day 1996
Great shot, Goldie! Fairview Mall?
thecharioteer
Senior Member
Further to the photos of the Queen"s Park bandstand in the "Then and Now" thread:
Sunnyside:
CNE:
Hanlan's Point:
From our American cousins:
Buffalo:
Rochester:
And from the Mother Country:
London:
Plymouth:
These two of the Brighton bandstand are for Urban Shocker. Surely its Victorian exuberance will warm his Georgian heart:
Sunnyside:
CNE:
Hanlan's Point:
From our American cousins:
Buffalo:
Rochester:
And from the Mother Country:
London:
Plymouth:
These two of the Brighton bandstand are for Urban Shocker. Surely its Victorian exuberance will warm his Georgian heart:
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Goldie
Senior Member
Scarborough Town Centre, I believe.
Earlscourt_Lad
Active Member
Please never do that again.