colyn
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How many of you old geezers remember what this is?? 
When was the last time you saw one???
When was the last time you saw one???
Trius
Waiting on Maitani
This is comforting. I don't know, so I must not be an old geezer.
Pickett Wilson
Veteran
A Kodak mailer bag! Man, that had to be the 1950's.
crawdiddy
qu'est-ce que c'est?
Whew, me too. Doesn't look familiar.
leica M2 fan
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I'm not an old geezer but yeah that is a Kodak pre-paid mailer.
colyn
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DeeCee3
Established
And the Film Can In It...??
And the Film Can In It...??
Guess this marks me as a REALLY old geezer: the Kodachrome spool came in a yellow metal (yep, metal) can with a red screw-on top. When you'd shot a roll and rewound it, you put it in the bag, pulled the drawstring tight, knotted it, put a three-cent stamp (first class mail went for three cents an ounce back then) on it, made sure your return address was correct on the mailer tag and dropped it in a convenient mailbox.
If you lived near one of the processing labs, as I did, your slides were back via the United States Mail (no US Postal Service in those days) in about five days. Since I lived in South Carolina back then, I generally sent my Kodachrome to the Kodak lab in Atlanta although the one in Washington, DC, was about as fast.
Incidentally, metal cans were not exclusive to Kodachrome. Plain old garden variety Kodak black-and-white film came in them, too. Only the screw-on tops were painted (green for Plus-X and Tri-X), the main container was unpainted. And all Kodak film back then came with a really neat data sheet giving a concise "sunny 16" exposure guide and developing times for various dilutions of D-76.
As the song says, "Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end, my friend..."
dc
And the Film Can In It...??
Guess this marks me as a REALLY old geezer: the Kodachrome spool came in a yellow metal (yep, metal) can with a red screw-on top. When you'd shot a roll and rewound it, you put it in the bag, pulled the drawstring tight, knotted it, put a three-cent stamp (first class mail went for three cents an ounce back then) on it, made sure your return address was correct on the mailer tag and dropped it in a convenient mailbox.
If you lived near one of the processing labs, as I did, your slides were back via the United States Mail (no US Postal Service in those days) in about five days. Since I lived in South Carolina back then, I generally sent my Kodachrome to the Kodak lab in Atlanta although the one in Washington, DC, was about as fast.
Incidentally, metal cans were not exclusive to Kodachrome. Plain old garden variety Kodak black-and-white film came in them, too. Only the screw-on tops were painted (green for Plus-X and Tri-X), the main container was unpainted. And all Kodak film back then came with a really neat data sheet giving a concise "sunny 16" exposure guide and developing times for various dilutions of D-76.
As the song says, "Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end, my friend..."
dc
colyn
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SolaresLarrave
My M5s need red dots!
I never used them, but saw them for sale on eBay. Nifty stuff!
Gumby
Veteran
I'm such a geezer that I didn't remember them until looking at the picture... then the memory came back. Thank goodness, that proves that all I have is dementia and not alzheimers.
Ducky
Well-known
I recognized it but don't remember using one.
Dave Wilkinson
Veteran
I seem to recall using a stiff yellow envelope - with a metal fastener with turn-over tabs, at one time - back in the 'dark ages'
Dave. ........Lord - save us from the compact flash card!
Dave. ........Lord - save us from the compact flash card!
bgb
Well-known
I too know what it looks like but i never used one I'm sure, maybe my grandparents did I do remember putting a roll of film into a bag like that and sending it off to some foreign land but i have no idea where Kodachrome was developed then ... maybe it was the USA or was there a lab in Aussie? I do remember it was done under my Nana's supervision and the whole process was a very big deal.
So was getting a new roll of 620 for the box brownie I actually purchased a whole box of 620 about 20 years ago here in NZ, it was great fun wandering around with the brownie taking photos.
I do remember putting a roll of film into a bag like that and sending it off to some foreign land but i have no idea where Kodachrome was developed then ... maybe it was the USA or was there a lab in Aussie? I do remember it was done under my Nana's supervision and the whole process was a very big deal. So was getting a new roll of 620 for the box brownie
I actually purchased a whole box of 620 about 20 years ago here in NZ, it was great fun wandering around with the brownie taking photos.
P
PhotoJim
Guest
I'd love to have some of those metal film cans. They are cool.
I have a couple of Kodak 120 wooden film spools. I put one in one of my cameras once in awhile when I'm shooting black-and-white film (since I process my own film, I know I'll get the spool back ). I've got a metal spool too.
I have a couple of Kodak 120 wooden film spools. I put one in one of my cameras once in awhile when I'm shooting black-and-white film (since I process my own film, I know I'll get the spool back
). I've got a metal spool too.
colyn
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Too funny... I've never seen one before - but I did guess it was a mailer!
I've mailed off many rolls of K-chrome in these cloth bags.. It's amazing they ever got to their destination.. You could send it via first class mail or air mail at extra cost..
Micky D
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I seem to recall using a stiff yellow envelope - with a metal fastener with turn-over tabs, at one time - back in the 'dark ages'
I remember those, I think I sent them to a Peterborough address.
A 24ex slide box:
leica M2 fan
Veteran
I definitely remember using them, we mostly had Kodak process our slides and for the convenience and price there were no other good choices. I have a couple of the old metal canisters full of old pennies. This was the middle 50's and very early 60's. Good memories.
outfitter
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Get to their destination indeed! I'm such an old geezer I remember when there was two mails a day in NYC and if you mailed a letter before 10AM it would be delivered the same day to any part of the city (they had a pneumatic system).
Some times the good old days were actually better. I recall redaing a biography of James Joyce's wife which said Joyce would mail a letter to her from Trieste and it would delivered in Dublin that evening - the trains ran faster in those days (heck they even had trains).
I don't recall the cloth bag, but did use the paper envelope mailers back in the early '60s. See, I'm not really such an old geezer...
I still have some of those Kodak aluminum film cans, Agfa ones too.
I still have some of those Kodak aluminum film cans, Agfa ones too.
Papa Smurf
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They certainly were handy!
They certainly were handy!
Since it was the summer of 1959 when I bought my first 35mm, an Argus C-3 Matchmatic, I have had a ton of those cans. They came in handy for all manner of small items useful to a farm boy from a pocket fishing kit , a water proof match holder, to a salt container. They also would hold a hundred or so pellets for my Benjamin air rifle.
I shudder and cry a little at how many e-bay treasures that I have had and just discarded in the trash. My retirement would be a lot sweeter if I still had some of them to sell at King's ransom prices on e-bay! :bang:
They certainly were handy!
Since it was the summer of 1959 when I bought my first 35mm, an Argus C-3 Matchmatic, I have had a ton of those cans. They came in handy for all manner of small items useful to a farm boy from a pocket fishing kit , a water proof match holder, to a salt container. They also would hold a hundred or so pellets for my Benjamin air rifle.
I shudder and cry a little at how many e-bay treasures that I have had and just discarded in the trash. My retirement would be a lot sweeter if I still had some of them to sell at King's ransom prices on e-bay! :bang: