[brk]

In the past you could get film processed at most drug stores and many larger supermarket style stores like Walmart, Meijer, etc. Many times you could get the entire process done in one hour or less.

Now I cannot recall the last time I saw an in-store film processing setup. From a quick google search, there are a couple of specialty shops, but the pharmacies mention 7-10 day turn arounds, so they're sending it offsite somewhere.

[mathewsanders]

I remember those machines being above the size of 4 office photocopy/print machines- it’s pretty amazing thinking of all the mechanical internals that must be in those things.

I’ve sometimes wondered what became of them all, were they able to recycle some of the materials, or are they in a bunch of landfills?

[giantg2]

Walmart still has film developing options. Typically they take the film, ship it to a lab, then ship it back for pickup.

It's reasonably priced, but seems to be low quality these days (or I just got 1-2 bad batches).