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...
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...
“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.
