[Leica] Re: Kodachrome processing

[telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)]

Adam Bridge <abridge@gmail.com> wrote:

>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
>

The drug store where I drop my Kodachrome off for processing is downtown 
Sacramento - of course the people who hang around the place aren't exactly 
'cool'.


Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com