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...
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...
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...
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
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…
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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
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.
“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.
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,”...
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...
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
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...
