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3rd & Redondo, Long Beach, CA

Approximate address: 304 Redondo Ave., Long Beach, CA 90814 Fotomat locations map: www.bit.ly/FotomatLocations Views: Google satellite view Google Street view Google Street view 2 Bing Bird’s eye view Bing Streetside

Bathurst & Sheppard – Ontario, Canada

Stephen Cruise’s art installation at Sheppard Plaza that displays images of the community on screens displayed through portholes in the walls. Bathurst & Sheppard590 Sheppard Ave. W.Toronto, ON M3H, Canada 43.755710, -79.439003 Google Street View

Newark Square Shopping Center

  Newark Square Shopping Center – Newark, CAMap: www.bit.ly/FotomatLocations photo by Charles Hathaway

1977 Print Ad

1977 KODAK FOTOMAT FILM BOOTH Vintage Print Ad “Fotomat guarantees when they’ll come in and how they’ll come out. When you bring Fotomat or Kodak film in for developing, you get our Picture Pickup Promise. It tells you just how fast your pictures will be ready. We put it in writing. The date and the...

246 W. Main St., Ayer MA

Fotomat, 1984

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture July, 1984 Skowhegan Fotomat, 14 x 16, oil on linen, 1984

Huron County Fairgrounds Ticket Booths

Huron County Fairgrounds Ticket Booths – by: scottamus Huron County Fairgrounds940 Fair RoadNorwalk, OH 44857(419) 668-0516HuronCountyFair.com‎ GPS: 41.227015, -82.624329

Calumet & Chicago, Hammond, IN

Fotomat at Calumet & Chicago in Hammond, Indiana in 1975 Fotomat locations map: www.bit.ly/FotomatLocations

Fotomat Custom Series Slide

Fotomat Custom Series Slide – “Coated with Photogard Protective Coating”

Computer Doctor

Computer Doctor – Broken Arrow 3706 S Elm Pl. Broken Arrow, OK 74011 (918) 451-3536

Hamilton, Ohio

HAZE-AWAY Headlight Restoration

HAZE-AWAY Headlight Restoration 331 N. Vincent Ave., Covina, CA 91722 Photos by: Jeff Chirino Fotomat locations map: www.bit.ly/FotomatLocations Views: Google satellite Google Street View Bing Bird’s eye view Bing street view

Thomas Ellifritt’s Fotomat model

This beautiful model of a Fotomat booth by Thomas Ellifritt is incredibly detailed.

F2 126 film

Friends overnight – 1972

“We develop friends overnight. Film today. Prints tomorrow.”

Fotomat film pouch

The Main Place Chapel

1970’s fotomat film

Sunset on Fotomat: 1978

“Sunset on Fotomat: 1978” by rizzman1953 Bedford Plaza, Bedford, MA – circa 1978. This location later became a video store, but it’s gone now. — in Bedford, MA.

Euclid & La Palma – Anaheim, CA

Google Street View: http://bit.ly/Fotomat-Euclid “Euclid Locksmith Service” by Debra Jane Seltzer – March 21, 2008

Auburn Plaza Shopping Center

Auburn Plaza Shopping Center Auburn, MA – Photos by: John Ames Fotomat locations map: www.bit.ly/FotomatLocations Views: Google satellite view Google Street view Bing satellite view Bing street view

The Carriage Trade Shopping Center

Approximate address: 1301 Broadway, Placerville, CA 95667 (The Carriage Trade Shopping Center) GPS: 38.73179, -120.78369 Facebook: www.facebook.com/roaringroad.net Fotomat locations map: www.FotomatFans.com/map Views: Google satellite view Google Street view Google Street view 2 Bing Bird’s eye view Bing Streetside

Adventures of a boomer working at Fotomat

re-posted from BoomerCafe.com If you’re a baby boomer, then you remember Fotomat. It’s like a blast from the past. And Patricia Mavo, a freelance editor now of Boynton Beach, Florida, not only remembers Fotomat, but because as a young woman living on Long Island, New York, she had a Kodak camera and was a photography...

Fototicket

Excerpt from “Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped”: IN 1978 THE FOTOMAT CORPORATION, with its collection of nearly 4,000 drive-through kiosks, viewed itself as a natural fit for a ticketing network. Just as customers could drop off film and return a day later to retrieve finished photos...

1977 Fotomat Newsletter

FOTOMATTERS BALTIMORE“Getting the shaft isn’t some-thing most people try to do,” Baltimore area manager Max Mil-lion says. “But Fotomat real estate personnel Joe Keough, Joe Seitz, Bob Marslender, and Jack Burdette worked at it for over a year and finally succeeded. Baltimore now has the first Fotomat store housed in an elevator shaft. The small...

Watch Stop

photo by: Dan Asnis 4345 US Highway 9 #25 Freehold, NJ 07728

Zion Ave & Mission Gorge Rd.

6551 Mission Gorge Rd. San Diego, CA 92120 Photo by goldtrout

Whatever Happened To … Fotomat?

re-posted from a Democrat and Chronicle article Back when everyone used film to take photos, they had to get their photos processed and printed somewhere. For a while, Fotomat was a popular place to do that. The company’s distinctive gold-pyramid-roofed huts were all over, typically as freestanding kiosks in shopping plaza parking lots. Customers would...

Lincoln & Ocean Park, Santa Monica

804 Ocean Park Boulevard Santa Monica, CA 90405 Google Street View

Fotomat Drive-thru Advertisement

Fotomat Drive-Through Kiosk Looks For New Business

re-posted from the PopUpCity blogMonday 11 July 2011 by Joop de Boer Once upon a time, Fotomat was a widespread suburban phenomenon in the United States. With over 4,000 drive-through photo kiosks mainly located at parking lots nearby supermarkets or strip malls, their appearance characterizes the suburban spirit of the mid-eighties. Most of these remarkable...

Haight & Shrader – San Francisco, CA

Haight & Shrader – San Francisco, CA 1816 Haight St. San Francisco, CA 94117 GPS: 37.769535, -122.452044 Haight-Ashbury neighborhood Street view: www.bit.ly/YW2SOg Aerial view: www.bit.ly/1zm58Bz Thanks Frank McKown! Fotomat locations map: www.bit.ly/FotomatLocations

Riverside Dr. & Forman Ave., Los Angeles

A Fotomat booth is briefly seen in a driving shot from the TV show “Emergency!” (1972)… and a Google Street View from 2011… If you liked the old TV show “Emergency!”, check out “Station 51” on Movie & TV Locations…

126 cartridge – ASA 80 – 12 exposures – color print

126 cartridge – ASA 80 – 12 exposures – color print

Process C-22

FOTOMAT 135 color print film – Process C-22 – Made in USA

Twilight of One-Hour Photo, America’s Fastest-Fading Business

reprinted from BloombergBusiness No other business over the past 15 years has died off with the near-totality of the all-American photo shop. There are now just 190 left by Patrick Clark Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg 9:23 AM PDT April 30, 2015 Wan Lee, owner of OK Photo Studio, still has a few elderly customers who pay...

Fotomat post card

50¢ OFF One one order of Kodacolor Print Processingone day service on most processingquality developing on every orderdrive-thru convenienceopen 7 days a week – 9 to 9(and don’t forget, we also have discount prices on color prints, color slides and sell Kodak Instamatic cameras at cost) G. E. flashcubes and bulbs Polaroid film (Swinger, Colorpak...

Choose The Best – Fotomat

Choose The Best – Fotomat

Fotomat Closing Down Here

re-posted from the Chicago Tribune September 13, 1988|By David C. Rudd 270 To Lose Jobs In Chicago, Milwaukee Sept. 24 Those little Fotomat kiosks, formerly the hot ticket for snappy film processing, will fade into oblivion in Chicago and Milwaukee later this month, John Chase, president of Fotomat Corp., said Monday. Chase said the company...

187 Harder Rd., Hayward, CA

Abandoned Fotomat in the parking lot of the Huntwood Manor shopping center at 187 Harder Rd., Hayward, CA by romleys Google Street view

Fotomat Pro-Video Services brochure

Thanks to Larry Martin for scanning and sharing this old “Fotomat Pro-Video Services – Film-to-Tape Transfer for Specialists in the Audio-Visual Field” brochure.

Seymour & North St.

Seymour & North St.

Adams Rd. & 16th St.

The Water Tower105 S. Adams Rd.Sand Springs, OK 74063 Google Street View36.13625 -96.100434

Film pouch

Dayton, OH

Dilapidated Fotomat kiosk. — in Dayton, OH.

Here’s a Business That Really, Really Died

reprinted from newser.com (NEWSER) – Sure, the digital revolution has brutalized video-rental stores and slashed newsstand numbers in half—but consider the poor one-hour photo shop. Those friendly kiosks and stores have fallen off by a stunning 94% since 1998, the worst decline of all business categories in the US Census. “The photo business is dead,”...

Have you seen this man in Freehold?

reposted from Asbury Park Press In 1985, Joseph Barjudinas came here from Lithuania with a vision – that’s it. Now, he’s found his “bread and butter,” and the story is pretty incredible. When I call Joseph Barjudinas on a Friday morning, he spends much of the conversation apologizing. “Hold on Shari, I’m sorry, I have...

CHALLENGES FACING FOTOMAT

re-posted from New York Times Published: July 27, 1981 WILTON, Conn.— The Fotomat Corporation, whose blue and yellow kiosks are a familiar fixture in thousands of shopping centers nationwide, hardly needs more competition. In the fiscal year ending last Jan. 31, the company earned only $734,000 on revenues of $236.7 million, following a loss the...

Reisterstown Shopping Center

Reisterstown Shopping Center (site) 11989 Reisterstown Rd., Reisterstown, MD 21136 39.448946,-76.815645  

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Fotomat…What’s That?

re-posted from What’s Past is Prologue blogNovember 29, 2010 by Donna Pointkouski The following article first appeared on July 25, 2009 for my The Humor of It…Through a Different Lens column for Shades of the Departed.   footnoteMaven has graciously allowed me to reprint my Humor of It articles here on What’s Past is Prologue.  I’m...
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