Our family used to share a photo developing business with someone. It run for almost two decades, from 1987-2004. Back then, we never have to worry where in the world we can print photos for free. We also received great deals during holidays from sponsors.
We have regular supplies of photo films, calendars, photo albums and cameras - manuallly-operated and disposable ones, some of which we give to relatives during Christmas or to kids who goes house-to-house knocking to ask for gifts.
This morning I went to the store room to put the old Christmas lights we replaced for new ones. It's dusty inside and everything seems to have been forgotten by time. I saw the old bicycles we used when we were kids, the old cabinets and appliances, including the boxes of disposable cameras from Kodak.
I pulled one from the box and put a roll of film and some batteries and the disposable cam miraculously worked. It worked perfectly well.
I told my brothers about it and we asked permission from our uncle if we can use them. At first he was hesitant, thinking they'd be more valuable 10 years from now, but eventually allowed us to use them, but we need to leave 1 box untouched.
It's fun seeing and using these gadgets from years ago, that our current generation do not have. I know there are still other disposable cams available, but these ones we have are probably older, from the 80s to early 90s model.
I think I'll be using some this coming Christmas, and I just hope there are still photo developing centers that will accept traditional photo films to process.
