Perhaps Mr. Conley

played a practical joke

on the village fathers of

North Tarrytown (now

Sleepy Hollow) by call-

ing his Tarrytown store

the “Sleepy Hollow

Camera Shop.” Back in

the ’60s & ’70s, when

both villages were still

considered to be part

and parcel of the Tarry-

towns, few residents

noticed such anomalies.

Just look at the “Headless

Horseman Book Shoppe,”

up one block (and across the

street–on the north side).

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I can remember “talking shop”

once with the son of the owner of

a competing camera shop. He said

about 90 per cent of their

customers were either dropping

off film–or picking up prints.

When film was incoming, he

had three specific questions

to ask; these were along the

lines of, “Glossy finish, or

matte?” That was about the

extent of it, he said. Or if

you had bought one of their

newfangled Polaroid cameras,

that whole processing thing–

would go--out the window!