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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...

Watch Stop

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

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...

Thomas Ellifritt’s Fotomat model

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

The Main Place Chapel

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

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.

Seymour & North St.

Seymour & North St.

Reisterstown Shopping Center

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