The end of Kodachrome comes home for Maven

We’re still sitting in bed, drinking coffee and watching the Today show when I was amazed to see one of those warm and fuzzy human interest stories about a place that I’m very familiar with.

Parsons, Kansas.

That’s where all my 92-year-old mothers family is from (although technically born in a sod house in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma in 1917). Both my brothers were born in Parsons … at home BTW. All the men in the family worked for the railroad, since that’s what made Parsons … the MKT or “Katy”. Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad began in Kansas City, Missouri and ran to Houston, Texas. Parsons was the mid-point, with big railroad shops that employed a lot of people there in Labette County. The town was named for the founder of the railroad.

I digress.

The piece on the Today Show is about the last remaining kodachrome processing lab IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, which is in Parsons. It’s Dwayne’s Photo and they will cease operations at the end of 2010, so if you still have a few lonely rolls of it in the back of a drawer, send them in now.

Here it is:

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Dwayne’s Photo

415 S 32nd St, Parsons, KS 67357

(620) 421-3940