Friday night. A little reminiscing. Dangerous, I know.
Back in the day, I worked at Ritz Camera. Seven Corners, Falls Church, Virginia. Real store. Real customers. Real film getting dropped off in those little yellow envelopes.
And here is the fun part. I am not going to tell you the years. I am going to tell you what we were selling off the shelves, and you get to guess.
The Canon AE-1 Program. The Minolta X-700 and the XGM. The Pentax K1000, the camera that would not die (and still hasn’t, probably). Nikon’s alphabet soup era. The FM2. The FE2. The EM. The FG. So many initials.
The Olympus OM-10. The Olympus… oh my god. OMG. Before OMG was a thing. We were saying OMG when OMG wasn’t OMG. You follow? (You do.)
The Nikon L35 AF. And the disc camera. Oh, the disc camera. Kodak’s great idea that film should be shaped like a hockey puck. That one alone should pin it down to a very specific slice of time, the way a really embarrassing haircut dates a person.
So. Ritz Camera veteran? If you worked there, or just bought your film there, I want to hear from you. Jump in the comments. What years? Give it your best shot.
I told you everything you need to know. Everything except the actual answer. (That would be cheating.)
Love and kisses, Marc
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