“Cars pulled up to the Fotomat location and dropped off film they wanted processed. After being shuttled via courier to a local photo lab, it would be ready for pick-up the following day. And aside from selling film and a foray into renting videocassette tapes, this was all Fotomat did.” Overexposed: A History of Fotomat. We had one in my town. The interesting part is watching how the tiny huts are used by current companies like coffee drive-thrus, etc. Just the other day I was telling my wife I should rent the one near my childhood house and write NextDraft there.