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Originally Posted by greendoor
I didn't like sending the photos away to the uncensored processors so I came up with a solution, I went to the local one hour photo place and became friends with the owner. Started out slow bringing in regular photos to be developed and would strike up a conversation. Then I would hang out a talk a while. Eventually I'd bring in coffee and just wait for the photos. During our conversation I got on the subject of nudes etc and he told me he got them all the time even showed me some. Turns out he always made copies of the good ones. Before long I was helping him even watched the store a few times while he ran errands so I developed all I wanted. Showed him most of the shots of my wife and he showed me the ones he took if his as well as any that came in when I wasn't around.
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Love this thread. I don't know why but never even considered that others who lived the pre-digital age had similar stories concerning private photos of their loved ones. Like our women, many of us were shy and unwilling to share our prize with the rest of the world.
I've already written several posts on this very topic about my wife. I chose this comment to add mine because of several things similar to our past and the fact it is number 69, fitting right in!
In our case it was my wife who became friends with the son of the man who ran a small downtown photo lab. I say son like in 30's. My wife and I were probably also in our 30's or slightly younger at this time. None of our photos were actually hardcore or porn. Just your regular tit flashing and later nude with legs spread.
We used the cheap 110 film cameras. One I remember was called a "Starmite" That's all I remember about it. It had a built-in flash and we each had our own camera. Remember the little flash bulbs we'd release wherever we were and stick in another? Before and after we had a few other cheap film cameras. 35MM came even later. And my own B&W dark room somewhere along the way. Yes, that's when we discovered home porn photos thanks to Dollie and her high school female friends. But this is about photo labs.
At first several topless and tit flashing photos of my wife and sometimes her girlfriends would be among regular camping, fishing, family type photos. After awhile I never knew what may be on a roll of film we took to the regular drug store.
First the drug store developing. Sometimes it was done in-store by the male owner and later a few cute young female employees. For some reason they often mailed the film out. We usually didn't get it for nearly a week either way. We were getting a lot of black or blank pictures. Of course we didn't have to pay for those but we were noticing there were often no tittie photos among the pictures. When we asked we got several answers. But I believe it was my wife who mentioned her cute boob photos. We then were told those were not legal and that's probably what went unprinted. It was fun looking at those pictures with young male or female drug store clerks. I think that's when a few gals offered to develop and print those tittie photos.
Film was not real expensive. I wasn't making much either. So with film, developing, etc. it really was costly. Loosing a few photos made it even more so. We tried other local labs then some advertised in magazines. Of course we never trusted those and still occasionally got blank prints.
Worse yet many of those were vacation photos in places we'd never return.
One day my wife went to the mall and just happened to stop at the small photo lab near it. Still before the drive-thru labs. I believe the older owner developed her first films. This happened 35 years or more ago so exact dates and events may not be 100%. I'm thinking the younger guy, the son, waited on my wife when she picked up some film and photos. Typically she'd be wearing hot pants or mini skirt and a blouse with cleavage. Male clerks loved waiting on her most places.
Of course back then they went thru the pictures and did not charge for any you didn't want, even if they were perfect. I can't remember exactly what some of the photos were of my 28-30 year old sexy looking wife. But I'm sure bare flesh was discussed. Unlike others I'm not encluding her bra size. For a skinny young girl they were perky and nice.
Please don't ask for old pictures or Polariods. Those were lost or destroyed for lots of reasons many years ago. It pisses us off more than you!
Back to the photo lab. Now I also had a helper begging my wife to pose for more risque' pictures. She'd let me take more and better photos. After several years she was posing nude and even with her pussy spread. Still nothing nasty. We lived in a mid sized town and several of my old friends were policemen. A few of those knew how my wife dressed and often I took sexy pictures in and near the local cop cars.
One afternoon several policemen and detectives came to our door explaining things about our photo lab friend. They had a few magazines and photos, all showing my wife in various stages of undress. Pictures I'd taken over the years. Pictures that the young lab guy said no one would ever see. Pictures he said no copies would be made.
Long story short. The lab owner's son was arrested for selling many local house wives nudie photos to a few unknown adult magazines. They found 1000's of nude photos of my wife and other local young women at the lab.
We also had a one armed deputy neighbor who gave us more pictures of Dollie taken in the lab raid. This deputy used to invite us over to watch XXX adult films, also confiscated other places. I'll bet ya always wondered what happened to those illegal X-rated movies!
Seems like after the lab was shut down I found another lab thru a girlie magazine where we sent our adult 110 and 35mm film. We'd get the film developed and printed plus a new roll free....kinda deal. Then along came the Polariod camera and everything changed for perverts world wide! Still we needed our local drug store or the mail order developer for those special photos when friends and strangers would pose with my wife.
Ain't the digital world great ? But I miss the good ole days of sharing my wife's pictures with others in person.
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We can't see the looks on your face as you look now. 