I picked this up at Brimfield yesterday, a Whittaker Micro 16 camera, a spy camera. A little bit bigger and a lot heavier than a deck of cards, this camera was made in Los Angeles by Wm. R. Whittaker, LTD of Hollywood. Detectives used it since it would fit in an empty cigarette wrapper, it was easy to hide. It took a 24 exposure, 16mm film cartridge, I found a Flickr page that has some photos from one, pretty cool feel to the images.

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I got some time this morning to take a walk in the Hollywood Hills. It is nice to be in the sun. Though, I could never live here, people, cars, traffic, all insane.  A friend just told me his theory on the traffic mess that is LA. He things it is because there are no “locals”, it is a mix of everyone else traffic issues from all over the country.  Boston drivers are aggressive, but we are all aggressive together and that works. LA is just a pot luck stew of bad drivers, but none the same bad. Left turns are a nightmare, there are no gas stations, parking is a crazy, you need to valet everything… but they do have In ‘n Out Burger, I will forgive some of it.

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