With the advent of digital photo processing many people with send out images to be processed at local photo centers for enlarged or mass printings of many different images.
Such was the case of my best friend, his wife had some images enlarged for pickup at a local Walmart.
She was told us she was going to pick them up while she was out picking up some snacks for us, and my wife was going with her to give a hand.
Well while the girls were out my buddy shows me some of the pics that he had taken of them while on vacation. Mild clothed to naked pics on the beach and such up to some some penthouse/hustler style pics and even some POV pics of her doing him.
I suggested that he send some of the pics to the Walmart under her name to pic up with the rest of her order. This was the beer and Beam thinking out loud. So he send a couple of dozen pics of her in various pics to be printed in 5x7's where you could clearly see her face.
Well when they get home my wife comes running in and takes me out back and his wife comes in screaming his name while he is ROTFLHAO. Somehow everything got calmed down and we ended up laughing about it all night after the bottle of Beam was finished and most of the bear and wine was gone.

My wife warned me that if I ever did anything like that she would shoot me with my own gun.

Wish we could have been there to see the expressions when the pics were dumped out on the counter for inspection.

Wonder if copies were made and or how many.

With the advent of digital photo processing many people with send out images to be processed at local photo centers for enlarged or mass printings of many different images.
Such was the case of my best friend, his wife had some images enlarged for pickup at a local Walmart.
She was told us she was going to pick them up while she was out picking up some snacks for us, and my wife was going with her to give a hand.
Well while the girls were out my buddy shows me some of the pics that he had taken of them while on vacation. Mild clothed to naked pics on the beach and such up to some some penthouse/hustler style pics and even some POV pics of her doing him.
I suggested that he send some of the pics to the Walmart under her name to pic up with the rest of her order. This was the beer and Beam thinking out loud. So he send a couple of dozen pics of her in various pics to be printed in 5x7's where you could clearly see her face.
Well when they get home my wife comes running in and takes me out back and his wife comes in screaming his name while he is ROTFLHAO. Somehow everything got calmed down and we ended up laughing about it all night after the bottle of Beam was finished and most of the bear and wine was gone.

My wife warned me that if I ever did anything like that she would shoot me with my own gun.

Wish we could have been there to see the expressions when the pics were dumped out on the counter for inspection.

Wonder if copies were made and or how many.

.............. A lot like Surferchick's experience .................

Long while back, pre-digital.......
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I needed to take a few rolls of Caribbean vacation film down to the local film shop, but was busy, never had the time. Finally the wife said her friends, family and co-workers were bugging her to see some of our vacation photos. Tired of waiting for me to take them, she grabbed the couple rolls of film and went down to the local shop.
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We were both a little skeptical taking them to a local shop, knowing that probably half the pic had at least some nudity. Nothing explicit, just chilling out at the beach, maybe a few in the room, and her topless practically everywhere, etc. Of course the friends and family weren't going to see those. But off she went to the photo shop while I was working.
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The wife said she felt comfortable leaving the film there, as they had this huge machine right at the counter, and she watched as the guy loaded a roll of film in the machine for processing. Signs on the machine advertised that the totally automated machine color corrected, etc. etc. Other signs said 1 hour turn-around. Good, she figured no one would have a need or the time to go through the pics, and the pics won't be seen by anyone!
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When she stops back in an hour or two later, there are a few people in line ahead of her. As she's waiting in line, she realizes that all the finished snapshots are on a continuous roll, and slowly scrolling out of the machine down a viewing area right in front of the counter, and back into the machine to be cut into snapshots! Any customer could see every pic developed! Of course the people waiting in line with nothing else to do except watch the pics scrolling past. Embarrassing? Yes. It was about then that she said she regretted not wearing dark glasses. She was wondering how she could not have seen that when she dropped off the film, she figured it probably idle then.
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But luck was on her side; her pics never came past, and were hopefully done when no one was standing in line. When she got up to the counter, the attendant said she timed it perfectly; her pics had just come out a few minutes ago! She paid the guy, scooped up the pics and got out of there quickly.
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It was only then she said she began to wonder if she just imagining it, or if the two guys and one woman who were in line ahead of her seemed to pay particular attention to her when she walked in the door, and then kept turning around to get a second and third look at her while they were waiting. And she wondered if she was imagining it or did they all seem to be wearing a knowing grin.
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I would love to hear your stories :)

One of my most embarrassing/exciting times was when I was walking past a camera shop. They also did developing and printing of photos. In their window they had an ad for a poster print. They would enlarge a photo up to about 1200mm x 800mm.
My wife and I were only just married,she was 20yo at the time, but I had been taking pics of her for a couple of years. I went home and grabbed a negative of one of my favourite photos of her. She was standing in the bedroom doorway wearing a shawl and nothing else. Her tits were partially covered but her bush was clearly on display.
I dropped it off at the camera shop and was told to come back in a week.
I returned a week later and the old guy behind the counter went to look for it. He came back and told me it wasn't back yet and to try in a few days. This went on for THREE WEEKS. I was getting worried that someone had decided to keep the negative for them selves.
I went back again on a Saturday morning. The shop had quite a few people in it. Some waiting for photos. Others looking at cameras etc. I was served by the same old guy. He went out the back then returned with a cardboard cylinder. I thought he would just hand it to me but to my horror he took the poster out of the cylinder and unrolled it.
He held it up for me to look at. Only it wasn't just me looking at it. Everyone in the shop was looking at it. There was my new young wife with her pussy on show for all to see. I could hear people making comments but I wasn't really listening. Though I did hear one woman say something about a sl*t. Also a few appreciative whistles.
I couldn't wait to pay for it and get out of there. When I got home I unrolled the poster and looked at it. I can't describe the excitement I felt knowing all those people had just seen my wife posing like that. It was incredible.
Over the next few years a few other people have "accidentally" got to see that poster. As well as quite a bit more.
This is the poster that everyone saw in the shop that day

gorgeous figure!
 

what a gorgeous full and voluptuous figure your attractive wife has!

I have a few stories of 1 hour photo labs at the mall,but the best one was my ex wife at the local photo shop,her sister took a full nude photo of her lying on a float in a pool while in Florida,I had the 4 by 5" photo in a frame on our bed,one winter day a year later it was gone,she said she put on some weight and got jellous of herself and and threw it away,I told her I loved the photo and talked her into taking to 1 hour photo in our local small mini mall and have a 8 by10" made,i told her it goes in a machine and no-one sees it---I didn't know how it was done for sure,
she brought in the negetive and I stood back,I was embarrassed ,the guy put it down on the table and turned on the backlight and said ok number 2 in the pool.1 hour later we returned ,the place was busy,then the guy said my I help you,she said she was back for the photo,He said Oh Yes,the pool photo,it came out great,he brought it out in a clear wrapper,took it out and laid it on the counter,2 people on each side of her looked at it too,then looked at her and back to the photo,she said she could have crawled under the counter,,,,,since then I did many many many...

Online Company
 

I personally love to have all of our private photos printed. Used to do it with a printer at home, but it just got to be to much of a hassle and to expensive. So I started using an online company to print our tamer ones and another lab to print our xxx rated ones. The tamer ones are still nudes, just no spread, toys, or intercourse.

I have always wondered if any copies are kept when I order from the online company. Out of the last group I ordered, I only ordered one set. But there were duplicates of many of the less than perfect quality and none of the others. Makes me wonder if someone at the company printed an extra set and forgot to remove all of the duplicates. Looks like someone may have some extra material for their collection.

Did order a bunch at a Walmart a couple years ago. Did it on their kiosk and did not do the 1 hour. Had them sent to the store thinking no one would catch them. When I went to pick it up, the employee handed me a note with my packages explaining what they will and will not print. Knew never to go back to Walmart again. Pre-digital age, Sams never had an issue with printing nudity. But Walmart sure did!!

Poster shown in Photo Lab
 

I just did the conversion of MM's to Inches and Wow that was a 30 inch wide by 48 inch tall poster!! Which is an enormous poster... nearly life sized. Im sure everyone in that store got an eyeful :P Yes your wife is a good looking woman, but I can imagine the shock you felt seeing her unveiled so casually in all her glory with everyone watching and assessing her. Way hot! I had a similar experience in a photo lab/shop but only with pictures laid out on the counter allowing other customers to see. I know how my hands were shaking with excitement seeing them looking at them laying there. Thank you for posting your story and being so generous sharing the image of her with us too

Androids
 

Love showing my wife on my android now.

:)
 

...and we love looking! Nice photo! :D

Photo developed at stores
But this does not seem to be the thread for it. I don't even know what an Android is. But your wife's ass looks great!

Anybody here either familiar with or remember when the Southridge Shopping Center opened in Milwaukee, WI back in 1970? I was in high school and worked part time at a department store there. The camera department was one of the areas where I worked and we offered film developing. You have no idea how many times I, and others, looked at people's photographs to pass the time when the store was quiet. I kept hoping to see some nudity but never did. What I did see often were teenagers smoking pot. You never know how many people have viewed your pictures before you pick them up.

Photo labs in stores
 

This is certainly true!! Years back I ran a photo lab near the University of Oklahoma. Of course many of our orders came from students, and they were usually rather interesting. Often saw nudes, and some were from the older folks too. One afternoon, a lady came in to pick up her order, and I remembered her pictures. All but one were happy snaps, but that one was a full frontal nude of her, and she was looking good. Nice and curvy, like many mature women.

She went through the pictures right there at the counter and when she came to that one picture, she was shocked and flustered a little. She was saying how she didn't look good in it, and I quietly mentioned that I thought she looked great. Made her day... Made mine too :D

Model T--sorry my first part of my post I lost,,I miss the old photo shops where you could take in a negetive of a nude and show the developers...now my pics are on cell phones...

I don't remember it back as far as 1970. My memories of that mall are from the mid to late 70s. Spent a lot of time there back in the day. I miss the old design of the mall. It's been updated and modernized within the last few years. Cold and sterile to my eyes. I miss the wooden railings, elaborate fountains and funky ceiling tiles.

Lets keep this one going
 

A shame that this thread is dying... it was kind of hot hearing about having to go to a lab old school and wait for your hot pics... The digital age kind of sanitized all that

On display
 

Years back I was in my apartment with my old camera and my gf. The film in the camera was pretty old so we decided to take some photos. I didn't think the film was good but a few days later I figured what the hell I'll take it to place with one hour photo. The photo place was in a rite aid or cvs I don't remember. I dropped off the film to the counter and went down the street to eat. I came back went to the counter and realized that as they photos come out of the machine they sit temporally in view for everyone to see! This was a pretty crowded place! I got my photos from the guy working and went back to my car. I flipped through them and wondered how many people saw the pics of her smiling topless or laying completely naked in bed? I realized the guy who out them in the envelope had at least seen the top picture of her completely naked covering her boobs. I fucked her so hard thinking about all the lucky people that got the sneaky peek :)

Thanks for the story. This reminds me I have a few cameras at the house in the same unknown condition.

We didn't realize so many people took sexy and nude photos during the film days. Nice to read about other adventures.
About old cameras and old film, we are slowly packing to move. Found several cameras with partially used film and some of my newer digital cameras. Batteries are dead so haven't checked. I no longer have the patch cords or a computer with card slots. I need to get an add on and see what we have.
As far as the film, my wife threw out at least 25 rolls of 110 undeveloped. They would be car shows, vacations, and I'm sure tit pictures at least. Damned should have saved those. Yet where would we take them now?
Yes we miss the thrill of not knowing who saw those pictures when we were young. We actually thought most were done on a machine and only spot checked.
But as we get older most people we''ve played games with and posed with are long gone. It really doesn't matter who sees us. In a short time we are all forgotten.
Enjoy it while you can. Keep adding your photo shop stories.

I posted a story before about how I got a surprise when I dropped in some 10 year old film to be developed and found some pics of a weekend in a hotel. It's amazing how long film survives so it's always worth trying it. The colour shifts a little but you can get usable results.

I still send off digital photos for prints to one of the big postal services and occasionally include a few naked ones.
My wife doesn't seem to mind because of the anonymity of it and it means there are a few more naked pics lying around. It's good to see some of these in print again if they are old scan and they are often much better than the original print.

Those were the days!
 

Back in the 70's, I used to own my own darkroom and often someone would come in requesting that I process a personal roll of film. Whenever they would say, "Its an old roll I found lying around", it was like code words for me. It meant, "Keep a close eye out for these results!" I was rewarded quite often!

*Note: Although I usually only did hands-on custom work, some people occasionally brought personal rolls of film to me if they were afraid that the big "chain" developer stores would refuse to give them service or when they just needed discretion. That was always rewarding! :D

film to digital, early days
 

No real story here.
.... In the early days of digital pics, there was a brief period of desktop computers becoming popular, but no personal digital cameras. Early 90's??
There was one company, was it "Seattle Film"??? where you could send your film, and they'd send the pics back on a floppy disk with or without prints.

I used them a lot. Some pics very, very racy, never a problem. Obviously since an entire roll of pics was put on one (or a couple?) floppy disks, the resolution sucked immensely compared to today's digital pics.

I said "never a problem" But like any other film processing facility, who knows who's got those pics today.
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Reading this thread, I wonder if the guy at the local mall has ever kept pictures of one of my ex-girlfriend!

Back in 2004ish, I was dating a girl, Chloe, we we're both the first serious relationship for each other. For our first year anniversary together, she asked one of our mutual friends who was into (film) photography (as a beginner level) to take some sexy pictures of her in lingerie. Sadly I never got the full original roll, just paper copies in a small handmade book, but now I wonder of some store clerk got luckier than me!

I really enjoyed sharing the experience.
I do have a few more stories about getting her photos developed etc, but I have MANY more about showing her pics to strangers, friends and relatives, but I guess that should be a new thread if anyone is interested :)

During the mid 90's I used Target to develop and print "lame" nudes. The envelope always had a "Thank You" stamped on the outside.
One time I had them develop a roll I took at the "Nudes-A-Poppin".
The envelope had "Thank You" stamped on it 7 times..
LOL

Many years ago in high school I had a part time job at a photo finishing company. This was well before digital. You would take your film to local drug stores, dept stores etc. I worked for a company that did all these stores processing. Anyway, we would get in many many nudes, topless etc. - photos to be processed. Some of it couldn't be processed or sold as it was concidered pornographic. However you didn't know what you had until reviewing the prints for color adjustment , rejects etc. So there was a "wall of fame" where many ended up. I remember it was the first time I saw a woman masterbating with a pop bottle. It was mostly pretty tame stuff compared to today, but back then it was brain rattling stuff.

Younger wife.
 

When we were in our twenties I sent some film off to be developed. I had just recently shaved her pussy. I took one of her in doggie position from behind. I got a threatening letter back about photographing underage girls. I never got the negatives back either.

great story and pics. Would love to see the all!

In the '70's I worked in a camera shop.
When customers told us their film contained shots that were interesting, personal, private, nude, glamour etc. we would pop it in the processing envelope and give the customer their claim tag. Once out of the shop we would put it in another envelope and order 2 sets of prints instead of one. Then when our envelope came back we would take one set and put it in the original envelope and add our set to our collection. We had well over 500 pics.

One day though we got two envelopes mixed up and a customer came back and complained that the glamour pics in his envelope weren't the nude shots of his wife that he had taken!!!! The person who had got the nude shots of his wife never returned to complain.

We got a description of his wife and asked him to come back in a couple of days. We gave him '"our" copies of the prints and a free film to compensate for the loss of the negatives.

You can only wonder what the customer who got the wrong nudes thought!!

Following on from the story above.
We advertised in several newspapers and mags. that we could offer Discrete processing for Private films.
Although we only advertised for a month we got around one film a week for well over a year.
They varied from tame glamour to artistic nude to full blown porn.

Some customers requested we posted the prints so that they would arrive on a Thursday and some asked us to write on the envelope front Locomotive 7023 photographs or print a return address of South Coast Birdwatchers Assoc.
I often wondered if any actually got returned to the Birdwatchers Assoc. and what their secretary, or whoever, would think.

3-4 times per year we would get a roll of film from F.R. Txxxxx (The last name is irrelevant). When processed it contained 3 topless shots of 12 different women. A frontal and a side view from the waist up and a close up of the boobs. All 12 were taken in different homes - obviously the home of the lady photographed. The women were between 25 and 45 yrs. old.
After 6 or 7 of these rolls over 18 months. one of our guys was visiting the adjoining town so he went to the address of F.R. Txxxxx, just to have a look, and found it was a Catholic church. So the F.R. obviously stood for Father!!!

I wanted to ask him what his technique was to get the ladies to strip.

Happened to us too
 

Counting,
Something similar happened to us years ago. I posted it some time ago, but I'll add a few details.
Shortly after we got married, and before she happily posed for others, we were sending our color film to be processed at a local drug store. They in turn sent the film out to be processed, not an in-store processor. At first there would be only 1 or 2 titty or sheer nightie shots on a regular "family" roll. We never got any negative feedback from the store so we slowly got braver, adding a few more naked shots, but still no full frontal, showing the whole thing shots.
I finally convinced my wife to go all the way. We shot a whole roll of 36 exposures of her completely naked, most showing her pubic hair, a few only her breasts and a couple showing her spread open. All clearly showed her face.
When I went to pick up the developed photos, I had my negatives but someone else's photos. They were of a number of local landmarks and a few of people I didn't know. That meant someone had my photos and their correct negatives. I went back in and explained the situation and returned the other person's prints.
They apologized and said they would send the film out to be reprinted. They said no one else had come in having the wrong prints. (I wonder why?)
I filled out the envelope and where it asked for the number of prints per negative I put 1. When I received the photos, I went to the car and opened the envelope to see if I had the right ones this time.There was 3 prints of a few, 2 prints of a few more and of the ones that were really full frontal, only 1 print. I looked down and noticed that the one I had put in the quantity, someone had marked it out and put a 4.
I can only assume that when I left after ordering the second set, the young man behind the counter looked at the negatives and decided to order a few prints for himself. So there was someone with all of my original prints and at least 3 additional sets from the second order. From that point on, we sent our nudity photos out to a processor advertizing special adult processing.
I found it exciting knowing that someone in our small city had several photos of my young wife totally naked. I wondered if they ever saw her out on the street, or better yet knew her. She never was approached about them.

Wow, SUPER exciting. Like, no turning back the clock, the pics are OUT there!
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my current Mrs has posed for pictures(polaroid) in the 70's & 80's. As of yet, we haven't seen a pic of Brenda but we live in hope :)

1978
 

We had a brief experience with film cameras. The quality was far superior to polaroid.
I think I sent them mail order to a place in Wisconsin that was advertised in a photography magazine.
All went well until one batch was returned with a warning.
The open beaver shots, apparently were a no no.
Kinda blew my story with the wife that all the work was done with machines with no human interaction:(
I found the whole process tittilating
Here's one that was naturally anonymous

In the late 70's and 80's I used Spectra Photo, I believe in Syracuse. Never had any problems with what I sent, and the quality was excellent. They stressed the fact that no extra copies were made of any prints.

Snapfish
 

Has anyone used the online service called snappish?

snapfish
 

Des I page used it twice... why?

snapfish
 

Yes I have used it twice ... why?

I was working for a marine company, prt of my job was to board and inspect vessels while they were in port, also get their supplies delivered and help the crew with any of their needs. I was in the galley and the cook, usually the only female onboard, asked me if they had a one hour photo places nearby and could I drop a roll of film off for her. This was her first tour and the request was a little off my usual responsibilities, but I said I'd take care of it for her.

I drop off the film, go pick up the rest of the supplies and stop back at the photo place. The man at the counter is looking at he like I am a murderer, but I hand him the ticket for the film. He goes into a spiel that he has young people working here, they saw the pictures and he is upset that they were exposed to this filth. He went on that he would not print many of the pictures and the negatives are in the envelop. Please take my business elsewhere.

My first thought was that there was a mixup of some sort, the cook was a sweet looking country girl, I could not imagine there was any porny pics from her. I explained to him that they weren't my pics and how I got them, but I don't think he bought my story at all. I pay him, then go to my car and open the envelop, there was the cook, the pics were mostly bare breasted and taken onboard the vessel. I looked at the negatives and there was a lot of spread pussy shots.

Long story short, I go back to the boat and after I take care of business I go see the cook. I hand her the envelop but I explain to her what happened at the photo place and I ask her not to put me in that position again. She is embarrassed but explains that her BF asked her to do that and she was going to mail them to him, she thought the photo places didn't see the pics, it was all done by machines, that's what her BF told her.

I didn't write her up, but she asked me if I had seen the pics, I could tell she was hoping I hadn't, so I told he I had not. (Lied).