I think students are what keeps alive the stores in Muncie and South Bend.
Both are college towns. Roberts in Indianapolis has survived by going into
selling online in a big way. Fort Wayne didn’t have the students to spend
money and the owner never got heavily into marketing the store online.
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On 11/28/17, 12:37 AM, "olympus on behalf of Moose"
<olympus-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf
of olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 11/27/2017 6:08 PM, Christopher Crawford wrote:
>> Back in July, Sunny Schick Camera Shop in Fort Wayne, Indiana closed
>>forever
>> after 90 years in business. I made some photographs of the store as it
>> emptied out during their going out of business sale.
>>
>> It was a sad thing to document, as Sunny Schick was a center for the
>> photography community on Fort Wayne, and our city's last remaining
>>camera
>> store.
>
>My condolences.
>
>People in SF and the Peninsula were saddened by the loss of major store
>Keeble and Shuchat a year ago. Perhaps much of
>the business will transfer to stores in SF, helping them along.
>
>We are lucky to have a major store here in Berkeley. I wish them well,
>but have done little to support them, only buying
>things like bags and tripod/head stuff, things I need to see/handle in
>person, once in a while. With major university
>campus in town, I suppose the constantly rotating student population is
>always in need of photography stuff, as well as
>supporting several art supply stores. Students were a big presence in
>their old location near campus.
>
>G.A.S. Moose
>
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