Kodachrome: 1935 - 2010

Today, the world's last Kodachrome processing machine shut down. As the NYTimes reports, in the last weeks, dozens of visitors and thousands of overnight packages raced to Dwayne's Photo, located in Parsons, Kansas. Some customers of note: a railroad worker who had driven from Arkansas to pick up 1,580 rolls of film that he had just paid $15,798 to develop and an artist who had driven there after flying from London to Wichita, Kan., on her first trip to the United States to turn in three rolls of film and shoot five more before the processing deadline.

When Kodak stopped producing the film last year, the company gave famed photographer Steve McCurry the last roll. Some pictures from the last roll:

See the rest here.

It's impossible not to get sad or nostalgic for the film our parents and grandparents used.

Caroline