PARSONS, Kan. — A southeast Kansas business that is the last place in the world to process Kodachrome has been inundated with the film as the shop prepares to stop handling it.
Grant Steinle runs Dwayne’s Photo, the business his father founded in 1956. He said the company received “a tsunami of film” after announcing it would stop processing Kodachrome at the end of 2010.
The Kansas City Star reported that the stop date for processing the film has been postponed to today or Tuesday at the earliest.
Business has been so hectic that for a time, processing went on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Dec. 30 was the deadline for submitting film, which has arrived from as far away as China, Japan and Australia.
One Arkansas railroad worker who photographed trains recently picked up 1,580 rolls from Dwayne’s. The $15,798 bill was so steep that he had to tap his father’s retirement account to pay it.
