Rummaging through Herb’s closet, it becomes pretty clear: this man once owned a camera store.
From that closet, Charlie Mackenbach, Herb’s grandson, exhumed case after case filled with tens of thousands of 35-millimeter film transparencies, each neatly packaged in a slide frame that fits in the palm of a hand.
Herb had passed away. The family was cleaning the house, as grandma now had to move into assisted living.
Charlie didn’t know much about grandpa Herb, except that he was born in New York, served in World War II as an aerial photographer, and later owned Riviera Camera Store in Redondo Beach, near Charlie’s home in South Los Angeles….