Comments on: Fotomat…What’s That?

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:57:48 +0000

Hi Donna, was very interested in reading the fotomat article. Do you have any idea if there is a list of all the 4000 or some of the stores and did fotomat sell them all?

By: dave-o

dave-o — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:08:21 +0000

Yes, it was like getting a present when you went in and picked up your prints from the photomat. Mom would be driving as I went through the photos on the way home. just not the same with digital anymore.

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Fun with Fotomat! | redfishingboat — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:05:54 +0000

[...] need to back up a bit. Many of you may not know what a Fotomat is — err, was. Well blogger Donna Pointkouski spells it out much more eloquently than I could in her explanation to her curious children: “The Fotomat was a [...]

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By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:53:06 +0000

I was a route man for Fotomat in Northern NJ in the early 1970′s while in college. Drove about 150 miles a day picking up film to be developed and dropping off the developed film and supplies to the girls in the booths. Great fun!

By: debbie

debbie — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:34:22 +0000

hey I am trying to prove that there was one in Ohio in the Chapel Hill Mall trying to find locations is still there put a ke making hut can you help

By: Heather Wilkinson Rojo

Heather Wilkinson Rojo — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:13:37 +0000

My daughter is in her 20s and we had the same conversation when she was in her teens. All I needed to say then was “You, know, the little camera store in the ‘Back to the Future’ movie” and she got it, and she said back to me “Like in that 70s TV show”. So a few months ago I mentioned “Back to the Future” to a teen and she said “Never heard of that movie!” Now I really feel old!

By: Michelle Goodrum

Michelle Goodrum — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:07:07 +0000

Donna, This is getting scary. I have used an ice box. I remember well having to stop by the gas station to get those huge blocks of ice for it.

The funny thing there is that my kids do know what an ice box is but only because we still have it. It’s a great antique with lots of memories. We use it to store paper goods now.

By: Donna Pointkouski

Donna Pointkouski — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 19:08:57 +0000

Michelle, we have a woman in work who still uses the term “ice box” – I know what it is, but I’m not old enough to have used it!

By: Michelle Goodrum

Michelle Goodrum — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:34:48 +0000

I can so relate about not being understood by children. It seems to be almost a daily thing around here! They don’t understand phrases we old fogies use all the time like, “strike while the iron’s hot” or why the “glove box” in the car is called a glove box (but then who wears gloves in Phoenix anyway!).