[GH85Carrera]

There are some goofy people out there.

I got a call from a out of state company looking for any possible aerials of an area close to downtown Tulsa, in a very industrial area and they wanted anything between 1965 and 1989. She said she had scoured the country looking for historical aerials of that area and found very few. I looked through our archives and found over a dozen different years in her date range and I got them the list. Then they wanted to know if they were on our web site. I said of course not. Each image is over 300 MB and we have at least a million negatives if not even more than that. We would need petabyte size RAID to store all of that and a few decades to scan it all.

Then he of course wanted to know how to get the images. I told him, pick the years you want and I will scan them and write up an invoice. She sounded shocked that we charge for images. I told her we have been in business since 1947 as a business. We are not now and never have been a library. We sell pictures and mapping services for a living. We don't do much of anything for free. She will get back to us.