Fotomat

The drive-up hut where film became photos.

The tiny gold-roofed drive-up huts marooned in the middle of parking lots, where you handed your roll of film through the little window and came back the next day for an envelope of prints and negatives. A whole photo store shrunk down to a booth barely bigger than a phone box. One-hour photo labs and drugstore counters made them obsolete by around 1990.