The Paul Simon Song
Kodachroooome
They give us those nice bright colors
They give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
Kodak estimates supplies of existing stock will run out sometime in early fall. Don't forget to hum that cool acoustic guitar riff in between the verses. You're welcome.
No more film, no more scrapbooks to look through, just discs and memory sticks. I've taken a lot of pictures with my Sony Digital Mavica on a 3.5 disc, and they are everywhere around the house, but no computer with a 3.5 compatibility. So, they are all lost.
I still have pictures that were taken during WWI. A number of scrapbooks, some in NY, some in NJ and a few here. My kids live in those places, long story. BUT, we had photographs to show them of the past and the family.
Photographs were forever ... my old Kodak Brownie, my first camera, had great fun with it. Then went to 35mm. Where are all those expensive cameras now?
I think they are ALL gone, now, everything is DIGITAL, I think that is what they are called.
Taking photographs, taking the film to the drug store, getting the prints and looking over them, a thing of the past .... and now ...... no more Kodachrome.
Say good by to an era.
My Dad, the Doctor, actually the Baby Doctor, got a Poleroid in 1943, and until he retired almost some 20 years later, when the baby was brought in for his six week checkup, the baby would have a picture taken with the Doctor that brought the child into the world, Doctor Dooley. He delivered many babies, and went through a lot of Poloroid film.
No more slides and slide projectors. We've all spent many hours at someone's house, "looking at slides." Vacations, kids, trips, good quality time, gone.
