We took a LOT of 35mm, and as we never did anything like kiddie that we worried about being illegal, I would just take the rolls of film to convenient developers, many rolls to a Photomat in a parking lot, and after that closed to whatever grocery was handy, Safeway, Kroger etc who all had drop boxes and would turn your film into prints in 24 to 36 hours. I just never worried about it, and probably got thousands of prints back.
We liked to share what we had taken, so always got double prints, and early realized that glossy prints could give an interesting result - really good sets would come back with a lot of fingerprints on the better photos. Guys were obviously taking them somewhere to look at, away from the work area where they would be wearing gloves.
Often we would get not just double prints but triple of the less interesting shots, but only doubles of the hottest ones. Not only where guys looking through them but keeping some for themselves. I'd not be surprised if they sometimes printed triples or more and kept all but the doubles that we got back.
We found the whole circus to be pretty exciting, and always eagerly examined what we got back for evidence of the photo folks having their own fun!
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