Good to know that Mister D. is still around. Back in the early 1960s, Arnie's East Boston hobby shop was a mecca for 'O' gauge model trolley people. He'd stock all sorts of brass models both "O' and "HO". For a time, Arnie's store in Eastie near Central Square was probably the best place around greater Boston for high end railroad models. Should you talk with him again, ask for the story of he with his brother driving a pickup truck coming back from the Cape Cod and getting chased one night for miles by a huge brightly lite flying saucer.
Appreciate the offer for printing of negatives. Actually have a darkroom set up which hasn't been used much as of late. Been meaning to get up a head of steam and make some prints. Usually do 8X10 size with some 11x14s. Thing is . . . I used to go into New York City to places like Adorama down on 14th Street and get good deals on boxes of photographic paper. There used to be four aisles filled with B&W darkroom supplies.
Recall a supply trip in there from New Jersey on Monday, Sept. 10th, 2001. As the Jersey Transit bus exited the Lincoln Tunnel, for some reason, I looked at the twin-towers of the World Trade Center in the distance on the right hand side. For some reason, I actually watched the buildings until out of sight. Could not have imagined that within a few hours time, those towers would be erased from the New York City skyline.
Anyway, by the year 2003, with the coming of popular digital photography, darkroom supplies had been relegated to just a couple of shelves with the choice in paper being also quite limited.
Actually, Haven't been a resident of Massachusetts for at least 30-years now. At present, I am here in the mid-Atlantic region. Now and then I do get up to New ENgland but usually go straight through to our property in New Hampshire. There's not much reason to actually journey into downtown Boston. To me is just another hyped modernized city with a legendary and distant past.
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