And I think your son Todd's somewhere around here.

I think he's somewhere really close.

Todd.

Todd.

How are you?

You were great.

Thank you for helping me at the counter.

My pleasure.

I appreciate it.

Hey.

Always welcome.

Okay, how many brothers now?

Give me the makeup.

Okay.

Of the family, of the immediate family.

In my family, there's five boys and five girls.

And at some point in all of our lives, we've all worked here at the shop.

Mostly the boys kind of emulated our dad, and I mean, I know when I was a kid, my brothers and sisters always tease me because they call me my dad's shadow.

Wherever my dad was, I was right on his heel.

And I started coming here with my dad, I would say when I was ten years old.

And I've been working here since I was thirteen, so almost thirty-seven years.

But I guess I just kind of wanted to be what my dad was.

That's the reason why I started and fell in love with it.

Because he mentioned that he never had to say, come on, boys, come this way.

No, you guys took it from day one.

Yeah.

We've kind of stayed the same.

You know, we get a little my dad always said we have a lot of nothing and a little bit of everything.

So we cover just about anything you can think of photographically, whether it's digital, film, printing, processing, archiving your old movies.

You know, my brother runs our lab to this day with me.

We're partners here.

Yeah, the lab, don't forget the lab.

Yeah.

And that's a big part of our business now.

There's a big film resurgence with all these young, it's funny, all the young kids who never really were able to know it, they knew iPhones, but they didn't know film.

And that's a huge trend right now.

And it's actually really it's refreshing.

We're watching the uh demographic of our customers come full circle.

We have a lot of wonderful, amazing legacy customers that have been with us for longer than I've probably been alive.

Well, they've watched you grow up, yeah.

And I've seen multi-generations come through here, and I have people that are in their 30s that come in and tell us how we have a we have a little play table over here that kids can sit down and play puzzles when the parents were here doing business, and I have kids come here and say, I remember that when I was a kid with your dad.

Because it was initially that that first impression.

It was your father.

It was it was Bill.

Exactly.

And he's a great dad, so it wasn't hard, wasn't hard to beat, not a hard guy to be around.

But he was a good photographer.

Yeah.

Very much so.

To this day, if there's something very old, I'll talk to my dad and I'll ask him, hey, this old camera, what do I do with this?

And he'll still every once in a while give me, oh, you can hit this button or push this little knob.

And I mean, I'm I've been here 37 years.

And I learned something new every day.

Whether from my dad or a customer or an experience.

And keeping the legacy alive.

Thanks, Chad.

Appreciate it.

Bill's camera.

Fifty-one years in Huntington Beach.

Well, here they are, honey to be.