"I started with a Ansco Box camera and developing kit in 1946.  After a stint in the Air Force I was out and started in CameraCraft in Salem MA.  Then moved to Look Photo in Lawrence MA. Had a 1 year experience in wholesale in a warehouse office outside of Boston then moved the family from Peabody MA to Hartford VT where I worked across the river in the Camera Shop of Hanover NH. Seventeen years later the original owner had died and I got downsized. After a short time I went back across the river and finished my employment years at Professional Camera in White River Jct VT ."