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As large as this new apartment was, itwas still way too small to accommodate a lifetimeof stuff. From four bedrooms, a garage, and a fullbasement to a Manhattan apartment is a tightsqueeze. Add to this the 5000 square feet fromBox One, and you've got 8000 square feet beingsqueezed into 1800 square feet. It didn't fit. Thenew tenant in Box One's old space was also aphoto lab. I left them the large processors as wellas many cameras, strobes, enlargers, computers,tools and parts.Our main slide client was still LehmanBrothers. They went through a total shake-up oftheir staff. Everyone was fired, including mytenant, who had gotten me the work in the firstplace. The new management sent out requests forproposals to all of my competitors. They werelooking for faster service for less money.Lehman decided to stop usingCibachromes. They wanted to use "Fierys"instead. This process resulted in a much lowerquality but at a much lower price. The cost of theequipment to do Fierys was way out of our pricerange. Box One would continue to make the slidesfor Lehman but no longer made Cibachromes.This was good news because, even though Cibaswere making money, the processor was way toolarge to fit in our new apartment. By downsizing338