It started as a repair bench in 1976. Fifty years later, Texas's largest camera store is still winning by doing the things a shipping box can't: fixing gear, developing film, and teaching people how to actually use the cameras they buy.
A Holocaust survivor opened a camera counter on 34th Street in 1974. Fifty years later his shop is a rental house, a photo lab, a B2B supplier and a YouTube school - and it still keeps the lights on at one address in the Flatiron District.