i'm a nostalgic kinda gal.
{bet you guessed that, right?}
now ... mr. rikrak & i are the same age, minus a few months.
and we were both raised in southern ontario, a few 100 kms apart. so we share a lotta fun growing up nostalgia, similar pop-culture loves, fun & funny memories of being a child in the 80s!
so imagine my surprise when i found out that mr. rikrak had no idea what my early 80's cultural reference to a *fotomat kiosk* was on this weekend's road-trip?!
good golly.
do you remember them?
anyone?
you'd drive up to some fun strip-mall-parking-lot-mini-building-with-a-fun-slopey-roof and drop off your rolls of film (read: NOT memory cards!) and drive-back later to pick up your pictures!
magic!
it's a was a handmaking-photos-in-the-suburbs-likkity-splitly-dream!
ONE DAY photofinishing at it's best!
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and i love how these abandoned ones have been repurposed into fabulous new kiosks!
like the world famous crochet museum!
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and this one revamped into a cute little coffee shop!
yay to repurposing!
miss you ... fotomat!image sources
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OF COURSE I remember the Fotomat!
ReplyDeleteWe still have one here that's been changed into a little coffee drive-thru, too!
Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane.
oh that's fun, jackie!
ReplyDeletethe one i remember was ramshackledly boarded up for a while after the fotomat heyday - then turned into a little mini-MINI-mart for a year or two!
but now it's just a parking space! :(
that's great yours is still in use. whereabouts are you?
Such a great post :)))
ReplyDeleteThanks thanks thanks :))
and cheers
Feyza
LOVE the photos! YES! I remember those!! I love your photos of ones that have been refurbished - so cute!!
ReplyDeleteoh my goodness!!!! yes, I remember that! I distinctly remember the smell of the negatives coming out of the envelope, but oh the magic of it!
ReplyDeleteIn our town it was turned into a drive up video store of all things. OH MY.
I love that yellow roof! And now it's a museum? so cute, what a genius girl!!
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