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Radio Extra: 90-Year-Old Celebrating Seventy Years in Camera Business

By  Jon Hansen and Mark Konkol | October 30, 2014 8:28pm 

 Joe Herbert, 90, still mans the counter at his little store — one of the city’s last surviving independent photo shops — and has no plans to close up shop after 70 years.
Joe Herbert, 90, still mans the counter at his little store — one of the city’s last surviving independent photo shops — and has no plans to close up shop after 70 years.
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DNAinfo/ Mark Konkol

CHICAGO LAWN — In the waning days of World War Two, 20-year-old Joe Herbert opened a little camera store. 

In the seventy years since, the world of photography has changed drastically, but Herbert remains behind the counter of Marquette Photo Supply. 

On today's DNAinfo Radio Extra, Mark Konkol discusses what keeps the 90-year-old going, and reveals that next to the photo shop is a relic from Herbert's family past:

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