When I was in high school I worked for a photo finishing plant. We did all the drug store and department stores in the area, plus some of the photo studios and professional photographers. We weren’t allowed to process “pornographic” pictures (sex acts of any kind). How ever “tastefull” nudes or exposures were okay. Because the machines were all automatic - one bank of about 3-4 machines processed (developed) all the negatives were mounted on one big spool end to end and fed through another machine that processed all the positives (prints). The prints would come out on a big roll of paper (similar to the jumbo roll of toilet paper you see now in public washrooms). Because this was all automated “high tech” 40+ years ago the nudes and “porno” were all processed but were removed before the negatives and prints were sorted into the customers envelopes. I ran the machines that processed the big rolls of prints and, of course, I watched a lot of the prints come through because I had to be near by to splice the next roll of prints to the of the last roll of prints coming out of the developer.
For a high school student I saw ALOT naked people. I remember the first time I saw a woman masterbating with a coke bottle. I was shocked. It made an impression on me as I still remember to this day.
So to answer the op’s question yes several people would have seen the pictures we couldn’t release to the customer and yes the good ones had a spot on a wall in one of the dark rooms.
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