[Leica] Re: Kodachrome processing

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

OMG - drug store soda fountains....sigh...it's been so long....back to
my childhood when the really COOL guys were hired by Faulkerson's to
be soda jerks and could mix you up anything you wanted from the
various syrups and fizzy water. They wore the white caps, white
shirts, the counters always filled with girls.

But it died about 1965 when the counter no longer made economic sense.

Of course there was K's Hamburgers with the booths and individual
jukeboxes, red counters, where everyone who was cool (so hardly ever
me) hung out after school.

Remarkably K's is still there, almost unchanged, on Main Street in
Troy, Ohio. But the candy shop, owned by Greeks who made fabulous
candies, is long gone along with the drug store with its marble
floors, wood display cases with glass tops and sides, the one in the
very back on the right with medical instruments on display -
horrendous looking things that informed me NEVER to have one used on
me - they even delivered.

A way of life gone. Now everything is chains - WalMart on the
outskirts while the downtown languishes. It hurts to go back.

Adam

On 2/7/06, EPL <manolito@videotron.ca> wrote:
> John Collier asked:
>
> >
> >Are they good in Canada too? I assume they must be as you are using
> >them. Can I just drop them in the mail in Canada?
> >
>
> Yes, they work here. All the North American Kodachrome goes to the USA for
> processing anyway.
>
> The mailers serve as pre-paid processing coupons in which you can put your
> film. But you need not mail them if that makes you nervous.
>
> Here in Montreal, I leave the film sealed inside the mailers at my
> neighbourhood pharmacy. They take care of the rest and call me when the
> slides come back
>
> There's no more soda fountain there, though -- instead it's the Tim 
> Horton's
> next door -- but otherwise this is just like some 1960s time warp, which I
> love. Goes with my Leicas perfectly
>
> Shoot Kodachrome and they'll keep making & processing it for us.
>
> Emanuel
>
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