Ran accross this photo the other day
Dec 11, 2022 09:29:05 #
Fun memory. I always used the local drug store who shipped the film off for developing and had them back in a week to ten days. I wonder how they managed "one day" processing since they obviously had to drive the film to a developer and back to the kiosk by the end of the day. That's akin to Amazon's best service, today.
Dec 11, 2022 10:46:22 #
We had one of those in Scottsdale, about 3 miles from where I lived in Tempe. It later became a coffee shop. As of late, it was torn down and an apartment complex was built on that site.
I never used the service. I had and still have my own darkroom.
--Bob
I never used the service. I had and still have my own darkroom.
--Bob
DIRTY HARRY wrote:
Back in the day when you had to wait to see you missed the shot.
Dec 11, 2022 12:43:59 #
JFCoupe
Loc: Kent, Washington
I had many rolls of Kodachrome 25 & 64 processed through these parking lot shops. It was very convenient in those early 1970 days.
Dec 11, 2022 13:12:40 #
Bob.J wrote:
It can't be, the car at the Fotomat is a Fiat 850 Spyder and they were only made from 1964 to 1973. I was a mechanic at a Fiat dealer when they were new.
The 850 and it's brothers contributed to Fiat not being sold in the US for a long time.
Dec 11, 2022 14:22:33 #
letmedance wrote:
The 850 and it's brothers contributed to Fiat not being sold in the US for a long time.
I worked on them, they were fun to drive but they were crap cars. They came pre-broken from the factory.
Dec 11, 2022 18:43:02 #
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Dec 12, 2022 08:46:04 #
Bob.J wrote:
I had one of those in the parking lot where I worked a long time ago. Funny, about that time I worked for a Fiat dealer and those were new, early 70's. Thats a Fiat 850 Spyder.
Does FIAT really mean fix it again tony?
Dec 12, 2022 08:55:25 #
Bob.J wrote:
I had one of those in the parking lot where I worked a long time ago. Funny, about that time I worked for a Fiat dealer and those were new, early 70's. Thats a Fiat 850 Spyder.
Actually that one is a 1968, they got headrests built into the seats in 69.
I ran a Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Rover, and Triumph new car dealership in 1969.
Dec 12, 2022 11:23:14 #
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Dec 12, 2022 13:22:58 #
Never used their "drive-thru" photo sheds.
Thrifty Drug stores always had the best photo/print and film development.
Now we use CVS or Walgreens. I love their computer equipment to restore, resize, and repair photos of
all venues. Now they can handle your photos on-line.
Thrifty Drug stores always had the best photo/print and film development.
Now we use CVS or Walgreens. I love their computer equipment to restore, resize, and repair photos of
all venues. Now they can handle your photos on-line.
Dec 12, 2022 17:51:25 #
Dec 13, 2022 02:32:16 #
We took about 20 rolls of vacation film to a fotomat once. They had a chemistry problem that day and all were ruined. They offered us a free roll of film.
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