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Twilight of One-Hour Photo, America’s Fastest-Fading Business

• mikestew 12y ago
  "No other business over the past 15 years has died off with the near-totality of the all-American photo shop." I wonder if any other business has both fallen and risen so quickly. These things were in nearly every strip mall parking lot in the 70s (well, one day shops, not one hour). So in the space of about 40 years they went from non-existent to everywhere back to (practically) non-existent. A bit of a nit-pick, but what the article speaks of most of all are the one-day shops, not "one hour photo" shops. Article refers to Fotomat, and even pictures a Fotomat, but were one to take photos to a Fotomat they'll be done tomorrow and not an hour. One-hour processing required on-site equipment. Look at the picture of the Fotomat: there's not even a bathroom in there, let alone a photo lab.