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I made this nighttime photo of the Edgewater Packing Company in December 1994, and it now qualifies as a historic document. Back then the building was well known as an amusement arcade with a carousel, video games, Oscar Hossenfelder's ice cream parlor, and novelty shops. Some years ago the carousel was removed, much to the public's disappointment, and the building was converted to a movie theater. This photo should recall some fond memories.

Photo Copyright James B. Toy.

In the fall of 1959, Mr. Toy entered this world at a place called Carmel on California's Monterey Peninsula. Nine years later his family pulled up stakes for the rain-soaked city of Salem, Oregon where he never quite fit in. When he was 12, he and his mother viewed an exhibit of photographs by a Salem newspaper photographer, which inspired him to take his first photography class. During his teenage years he gradually developed his eye for composition and his skills with light and exposure. Though he did not pursue photography as a career, he has continued to document his observations of the world on small frames of film. In 1984, Mr. Toy and his wife Heidi returned to the Monterey Peninsula where his heart belonged. In 1997, on a bit of...