Life Before Digital Photos: The Last Days of Kodachrome
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Our American Stories, Dwayne's Photo in Parson's, Kansas is truly a family affair, and for a while, it was an extraordinarily rare family affair...so rare that people from across the globe rushed there to get their Kodachrome photos processed before the last chemicals in the world required to do it ran out. Here's the family with the story.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
| 0:08.4 | All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
| 0:21.6 | he built. |
| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
| 0:27.3 | And then boom, it's everywhere. |
| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
| 0:30.7 | Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:34.7 | You're a podcast. |
| 0:44.8 | Music or wherever you get your podcast. And we return to our American stories. |
| 0:48.6 | The oldest surviving photograph in the world was taken in 1826. |
| 0:53.7 | For reference, that's when John Quincy Adams was president, |
| 0:57.2 | who, coincidentally, is also the first president to be photographed. So needless to say, |
| 1:02.5 | photography has been an industry for a very long time. Our next story is about a family |
| 1:08.1 | involved in that industry. Here's our own Monty Montgomery with the story. |
| 1:14.0 | Our story begins in Joplin, Missouri, the hometown of Joshua and Derek Carter, the grandsons of Dwayne Steinley. |
| 1:22.9 | But they had another name for him. |
| 1:25.1 | We called him Bobob. |
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