A camera store that’s been open for the past 80 years in the City of Calgary will be closing down at the end of the month.
Robinson’s Camera was opened by Bob Robinson in 1936 in the Grain Exchange Building.
It was originally called Camera Crafts but Robinson changed the name in the 60s and then sold the shop a few years later to his protégé Tony Peters.
Peters planned to close the store at the end of this year before he passed away from a health condition in October.
Darryl Riediger, the store manager, calls it the ‘end of an era’.
“Back in the 70s and 80s, especially in the 80s when one hour labs were really hot, most of our camera store locations had a one hour lab, cameras were really selling well. We were up to 13 different locations in Calgary, Lethbridge and Edmonton. We had a store also in Kelowna.”
The final location of Robinson’s Camera, on 9 Avenue S.E., will close at the end of day on December 30.
(With files from Alesia Fieldberg)
