On 03/12/2011 01:51 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:01:10 +0000, Invisible wrote:
>
>>> Photos are *not* expensive.
>>
>> Interesting. Last time my parents had me and my sister photographed and
>> framed, it ended up costing several hundred pounds. Obviously, I do not
>> have that kind of money just laying around.
>
> That's the joy of Google Maps at work - finding something that fits the
> budget. :)

In my enterience, Google Maps is very bad at figuring out exactly where 
stuff is (postcodes aren't very accurate spatially, after all), and an 
extremely small number of business show up on the maps. Much better to 
do a normal Google web search and go from there...

>> (I did try using Google to find the place where we had it done, but it
>> doesn't seem to exist any more... Some shop called Olan Mills. Wikipedia
>> says something about the UK group being liquidated...)
>
> Now *that's* funny, because my parents used to take my brother and I to
> an Olan Mills (or perhaps it was Olin Mills?) studio in the Minneapolis
> area.

Yeah, apparently it's an American company. (I always thought it was just 
the one small shop in the village highstreet, but no, apparently it's 
this huge company...) Apparently only the UK side shut down.

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