Fotomat

[DefunctStoreKing]

does anyone remember fotomat? what was fotomat?

[frameguy2704]

Sure  remember PhotoMat, it was a little drive up kisok to develop photos...

[retailfan]

fotomat is still around as a online company
I have old discount coins from fotomat
Some of the stores in NH were bought out by a company that eventually merged with Ritz

[Lastdaysofrain]

We had a Fotomat in the parking lot of the Johnny's Foodmaster Plaza on Main Street in Melrose, MA when I was growing up.  I think it was closed and removed sometime in the early 90s.

[beachgal26]

Fotomats were in all shopping center parking lots during the 70's and 80's and eventually closed out as all the grocery stores, drug stores, etc. all jumped on the bandwagon and began processing film.

For a really good shot, watch the early Twin Pines Mall shot in "Back to the Future" and you'll see a 80's fotomat right near where the shooting starts.

:cool:  

[Crawford]

This is one of the places you never noticed was gone until it actually was. There was one in the Gansett Plaza lot. There is an old Mad Magazine joke about two hicks driving through a city, seeing a Fotomat and thinking it is an outhouse.