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Kacey Musgraves was in town earlier this week for two sold out parties at the Greek Theater.
In his free time, the Grammy award winning country artist
and his sister stumbled into a small, low-key photo shop in Koreatown.
In order to develop a film, they found a "jewel": a store reserved exclusively for cash sales, without Internet presence.
but a lot of handmade backgrounds, retro photo shoots and an endearing
the old school photo lab struggling for survival.
But all this is changing now.
Musgraves, who
won this year's Grammy for Album of the Year
for his acclaimed "Golden Hour"
created an Instagram account for Tom's Photo Studio and Lab on Wednesday. Musgraves and his sister fell at random on the small family business located at 4158
Beverly Blvd.
in Koreatown.
The "high horse"
The singer spent some time talking to the store owner and learned that the once-bustling business, which had opened in 1991, had slowed down at a breakneck pace since the digital wave. (But as interest for
& # 39; Apparition of the culture of the camera of the 90s
, things could be up.)
Determined to give a much needed boost, Musgraves enlisted
its 1.6 million Instagram subscribers
and 811,000 fans on Twitter
for support.
"Let's keep this lovely business afloat!" Wrote Musgraves to his Instagram account. His efforts are
pay beautifully. Thursday morning, the store had nearly 28,000
Instagram followers. And Tom, happy and overwhelmed, was inundated with calls and requests for portraits.
Musgraves herself posed for a series of dream portraits in the studio and shared the images on her Instagram account.
"My portrait was done in this incredible little place in Korea Town, called Tom's One Hour Photo. This has not changed since it opened in 1991. It's only money and has no internet. This case has become so slow since the digital wave – so we asked him to become a fixture: @tomsonehourphotolab pic.twitter.com/Y2RPmw1aN7
– K A C E M R E V E S (@KaceyMusgraves) August 28, 2019
"Our
Country is built on the backbone of these small businesses, "Musgraves told fans at the Santa Fe Opera Wednesday night, which was captured on Instagram and shared on Tom's new account.
"My parents are small business owners, and since I can remember … they are making an effort to make ends meet by working together, doing what they can. So I know what it looks like. "
The son of the owner, Nick, is a big fan of Musgraves and
was overwhelmed with gratitude and made sure to express it.
"THANK YOU VERY MUCH for visiting us and supporting us !!!", he writes on Instagram. "… Our family business has been idling since technology advances have put the photography of one hour and retro studio photography on a downward trajectory. But thanks to you and the photography enthusiast, we are still alive! "
Tom could not be reached immediately for comment, but his old photo shop, sandwiched between a pet store and a computer repair company,
seems about to survive after all.
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