Remember Polaroid Cameras? The excitement of seeing the photograph develop before your eyes? Well Western New York, it is going to be a lot harder to get film for these cameras….
Polaroid Corp. is dropping the technology it pioneered long before digital photography rendered instant film obsolete to all but a few nostalgia buffs. This year’s closures will leave Polaroid with 150 employees at its Concord headquarters and a site in the nearby Boston suburb of Waltham, down from peak global employment of nearly 21,000 in 1978.
So if you happen to still have one of these cameras, you might want to stick it away somewhere safe, it appears that they are destined to be a collector’s item along with the 8-track tapes and white leisure suits of the 70′s!
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