valerief
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Sun Apr-17-11 05:30 PM
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Question about those one-hour photo shacks in the seventies and eighties. |
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Edited on Sun Apr-17-11 05:32 PM by valerief
You know, the standalone shacks in strip malls. I can't remember the name of them and my online searches aren't getting me anywhere. Were they called Photo Shacks? Or Photo Labs? Or something else?
Thanks.
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Sun Apr-17-11 05:39 PM
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Edited on Sun Apr-17-11 05:41 PM by Duer 157099
Or rather, Fotomat
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Sun Apr-17-11 05:59 PM
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2. THANK YOU! That was the one. I couldn't remember it!!!! |
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Sun Apr-17-11 07:00 PM
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3. I used to use them all the time |
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I probably still have some of their envelopes around, lol
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Sun Apr-17-11 07:08 PM
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Mon Apr-18-11 10:45 AM
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7. That's got to be the San Fernando Valley. |
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Land of my childhood. I can almost smell the smog and eucalyptus trees.
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Mon Apr-18-11 09:55 AM
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5. Steven Wright had a funny joke about those. |
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Edited on Mon Apr-18-11 09:56 AM by A HERETIC I AM
"I just bought a house. It's one of those yellow ones in the parking lot at a shopping center. It's kind of small, but now when I have a party, I have parking for two thousand."
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Mon Apr-18-11 10:11 AM
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6. Interesting fact about those Fotomat kiosks: |
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Most of the guys working in them weren't wearing pants.
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Mon Apr-18-11 04:14 PM
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10. And their secretaries... |
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Mon Apr-18-11 02:45 PM
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8. I had a gal pal that worked at one of those. |
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Those were some bizarre conversations...
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Mon Apr-18-11 03:24 PM
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9. They converted a few of those here |
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into drive up coffee stands a while ago.
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Mon Apr-18-11 11:44 PM
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Had yellow roofs. Nowadays they make good espresso stands.
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Tue Apr-19-11 10:44 AM
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12. I always wondered where the attendant/photo processor went to the john. n/t |
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