Way cool camera store tour

pbromaghin · Jan 17, 2013

I was planning a mini vacation to San Diego and stumbled onto this.

Go to maps.google.com and put this in the search box:

2703 Adams Ave San Diego, CA 92116-1313

Switch to street view and you can step into the store. The place is just loaded with film and darkroom equipment.

Molli · Jan 17, 2013

That's awesome.... except that I wound up in the hairdresser's next door or across the road (Mind you, they have fantastic Venetian Masks on the wall, so it was well worth the detour!). I'll try again when I have a better net connection; but I do love the idea. Thanks for the link!

Molli · Jan 17, 2013

Got it.... I had to reverse in!

I'm a little jealous. I have nothing like that anywhere near here. My closest approximation is an antique store covering a couple of acres of land (once upon a time it was an old packing shed) and in there is a wonderful little treasure trove of second hand cameras. It's pretty much my sole source of paper (people's old cast offs). Seeing those fresh new packets of Ilford in your shop there made me drool!

pbromaghin · Jan 17, 2013

Molli said:
That's awesome.... except that I wound up in the hairdresser's next door or across the road (Mind you, they have fantastic Venetian Masks on the wall, so it was well worth the detour!). I'll try again when I have a better net connection; but I do love the idea. Thanks for the link!

Right, I think it drops you in facing across the street. You need to be looking South at the Camera Exposure Store.

Molli · Jan 17, 2013

I was to start with, but it wouldn't let me walk in the store... I sort of kept getting bumped back a few metres. However, curiosity makes me persistent It's all good and that really is a wonderful little shop.

EASmithV · Jan 17, 2013

that's awesome!

TBN · Jan 17, 2013

Oh yeah ! *drooling* :w00t:

jgwetworth · Jan 17, 2013

This is amazing! not just the store but the fact google has something like this.

cscurrier · Jan 20, 2013

That is a pretty cool google map feature!

John_Nikon_F · Jan 20, 2013

Awesome... NAS via Google Street View...

-J

nicholai · Jan 20, 2013

Damn, that sure is amazing.

rbrigham · Jan 20, 2013

Looks like a mini version of Mr Cad in Croydon England

mwdake · Jan 20, 2013

That is cool, but I wonder how they got the Google car in there to take the pictures?

John_Nikon_F · Jan 26, 2013

Heh, they probably put the camera on a helmet...

lxdude · Jan 26, 2013

Very cool. I'm going to have to take a little trip to San Diego soon, I can tell.
It made me miss my local shop, Empire Camera, which closed at the end of 2010.

flatulent1 · Jan 27, 2013

airgunr · Jan 27, 2013

http://www.graysofwestminster.co.uk/tour/

If your into Nikons, this is a pretty cool one. You can do a virtual tour of the shop.

Way cool camera store tour

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