Richford Hotel, downtown Erie

Any time I work downtown I find myself wandering around at lunch time. It's one of those places that gets taken for granted far too often. Everyone is in such a hurry. There are a lot of old buildings in Erie, most of which go un-noticed. The Richford Hotel is one such building. I happened to be in the area when it was very cold and windy. I'd been taking my Argus75 camera to work, because I don't have to think about light meters, tripods etc. It's a simple point & shoot, medium format camera that is a lot of fun. Shutterspeed & Aperture are fixed as is the focus. You could call it an early version of the instamatic. I have to respool the film onto 620 size spools, but it's not that bad. Here is one of the images I took last week at Perry Square during the cold wintry lunch hour.