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It's amazing what people will drop off at the drugstore.

posted 13 years ago by duNamisT
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Hi there,
In almost the beginning of the movie, Leo gets too drunk and has to be taken to Victor and Dolly's Home so that he can spend the night there. There, he shares these photographs out of his wallet with Victor. Those who have watched the movie know what the photos are of. Then Leo says the above-mentioned line (the one in "Subject" Field). My question is Why would people forget photos of such intimate nature at a drugstore. I am assuming the people forgetting because that's what I thought by "dropping off." How come a photo delivery guy has possession of all these photos. I mean I know there's a connection between photos and photo delivery guy but what was he doing in a drugstore. Could anyone explain this to me?

[–] duNamisT 13 years ago

Bump

[–] Mr_Ectoplasma 13 years ago

No, I think you're mistaken— there are often photo developing centers in drugstores, so it wasn't like people were leaving their personal photos scattered around a drugstore. I mean, they were leaving them in the drugstore, but in the photo department. That's where he worked, so he had access to that.

[–] duNamisT 13 years ago

Thank you very much, youshotandywarhol

[–] greg-goremykin 8 years ago

Further than that, I had friends at this very point in time (1995) that worked as photodevelopers, and whenever they came across dirty pictures (which was A LOT, mostly from young married couples) they made copies for themselves (these friends were in their very early 20s, so their hormone overcame their morals and the illegality of the situation). They all had a running contest kind of where they had the very best of the pictures each had seen posted up in each of their apartments on their fridges.

I got the impression that this is something that every young guy who worked in a photo lab did, not just where I lived, but as a part of the livelihood through out at least the Western industrialized world, and has been pretty much since the beginnings of photo labs and couples taking dirty pictures and needed them developed somewhere.

[–] greg-goremykin 8 years ago