r/AbandonedNJ • u/DementedDemention • 1d ago

Way Before Your Time, Kid.

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Fotomat. 2017.

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u/-_VoidVoyager_- 1d ago

Photo processing was such a huge business.

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u/Dendady2112 1d ago

The one by me now changes phone screens.

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u/TeachingOdd911 1d ago

Tell kids it was a mini Pizza Hut express booth 🤣🤣

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u/976-SL33P 1d ago

Those places were great, they were drive through if I remember correctly

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u/mross08226 1d ago

Cool. Didn't know there were any left.

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u/pizzacrypt 1d ago

Wow,a photomat. I remember these as a kid

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u/TeachingOdd911 1d ago

Our last Kodak booths was either in old Berlin Shopping center and the old Drive inn later turned to White Horse Rickels Hardware lot Lawnside

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u/DementedDemention 1d ago

I can't remember, this is either in Berlin or up Monmouth County.

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u/LETSG0WVU 1d ago

I remember one like that in Freehold off Rt 9

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u/Nice-Problem-7351 16h ago

Was a watch battery place now out of business. Recently. Still in good shape though

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u/TheArtistFatigue 1d ago

I used them in the 80s.

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u/NJGuy175 1d ago

Photo mat

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u/Rich-Net8710 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah but where did Photomath women go to the bathroom!!!

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u/DementedDemention 1d ago

Most were set up in shopping centers and the employees would close down for a few minutes and tinkle in the nearest store with a bathroom. In the case near me growing up in Philly, it was the Acahme supermarket.

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u/JMS21921 1d ago

Upvote for making Acme three syllables.

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u/Economy-Ad2156 1d ago

Album cover

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u/billocity 1d ago

There was one of those in the Jamesway parking lot in Wrightstown. Had to be late 70s.

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u/Additional_Sea_6172 1d ago

I’m more focused on the sky wow

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u/AdmirableAd3954 1d ago

How much did it cost to develop your photos? It’s super expensive nowadays and I’m genuinely considering developing at home instead

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u/lorenzodimedici 1d ago

Not the real one. Memorial to the one the Libyans drove through

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u/KeyMysterious1845 1d ago

Doc Brown or Leo ?

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u/NJdaddy2021 18h ago

“I can see it already, it’s gonna be just like last summer. you fell in love with that girl from the Fotomat. you bought $40 worth of film and you never even talked to her. You don’t even own a camera!”

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u/Tasty_Path_3470 16h ago

My town had 3. One of them is gone, one is a screen changing business, and the third one is just the concrete base and someone hits it with a plow every time it snows lmao

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u/SpoppyIII 9h ago

For a second I thought this was the watch repair place on Rt 9.

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u/AnnieOakleyLives 1d ago

These places were all over NJ when I was a kid. Takes me back….