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...shop ten feet wide, surrounded by seven pawnbrokers and nine saloons, black-haired Herb Luhn, 49, proprietor of the San Francisco Camera Exchange, last week went on being successful in a fantastic way. In normal times his customers ("They're all nuts, they only talk about photography") wait on one another, wrap purchases, ring up the cash register without disturbing him, use his telephone. They patronize no one else because there is no one like him and no shop like his (they have made it a meeting place, a center for the exchange of information...
...Francisco's earthquake jolted Storekeeper Luhn out of the fifth grade, set him to selling newspapers. After service as an artillery private in World War I, he went back to San Francisco to work for the man who owned the shop he owns now. (His partner, astute Mrs. Alice Argus Brady, was bookkeeper for the former owner.) His 96-year-old grandmother takes care of Bachelor Luhn. He says of her: "She is very important...
...normal times Herb Luhn sold a thousand cameras and 10,000 rolls of film a year to amateurs, newspaper photographers and four commercial studios. Now he deals chiefly with the Army, Navy and war industries. To one customer recently Luhn said: "You want film and I have none. But you like my necktie. Here it is. No charge." Storekeeper Luhn and Stabilizer Brady are doing well. Last year they grossed $100,000 in this shop, expect this year to do 50% more...
Five of the men who pulled in Pennsylvania's boat last year, are rowing this year, and the outlook for a fast crew is excellent. The men are at present rowing as follows: Bow, Luhn; No. 2, Sypher; 3, Goodell; 4, Wangaman; 5, Harvey; 6, Van Loon; 7, Harris; stroke, Wright. Substitutes-C. Dewey, Williams, Johnson, Stivers, J. Dewey...
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