You give us the greens of Summer....

Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

The very last roll of KODACHROME film dropped off at the photomat.

From the AP : ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- "What should a photographer shoot when he's entrusted with the very last roll of Kodachrome?
Steve McCurry took aim at the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Terminal and a few human icons, too. Paul Simon, the crooner synonymous with the fabled film's richly saturated colors, shied away. But Robert De Niro stood in for the world of filmmaking.
Then McCurry headed from his base in New York City to southern Asia, where in 1984 he shot a famous portrait of a green-eyed Afghan refugee girl that made the cover of National Geographic. In India, he snapped a tribe whose nomadic way of life is disappearing -- just as Kodachrome is.
The world's first commercially successful color film, extolled since the Great Depression for its sharpness, archival durability and vibrant yet realistic hues, ``makes you think,'' as Simon sings, ``all the world's a sunny day.''
Kodachrome enjoyed its mass-market heyday in the 1960s and '70s before being eclipsed by video and easy-to-process color negative films, the kind that prints are made from. It garnered its share of spectacular images, none more iconic than Abraham Zapruder's reel of President Kennedy's assassination in 1963. ( the rest )

THE SONG.

Sad for up here, Rochester was VERY much a company town. Generations of families grew up working for Kodak. Good solid middle class jobs, Mom at home, Dad out getting a little bit radioactive on the Kodak Kampus... and the kids just not understanding.