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Kodak Park Tours

Wow, $300? Do people get free film at the end of the tour?
 
Wish I could have been on such a tour in the 50's and 60's. I'm glad I got to do the Cape tour in 1968. Man that VAB is BIG. And that Saturn 5 was tall enough to reach the moon just sitting on the crawler. One engine bell was big enough to live in. I'll bet Kodak Park was busier than a beehive, making all kinds of really neat things. The scientists who worked there were the sharpest tacks in the box, educated to the hilt. I'll bet they had to be company men to the bone, and if not, you probably didn't even get past he job interview. I bet an amputee could count still count on his remaining hand the number of bad eggs that slipped through and got hired.
 
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In the '80s I gave such a tour to visiting dignitaries from another film company. We rotated, I guess. I picked them up in a company limousine at Kodak Office and we went to the Park for a tour.

Then they came into our offices and met some of the people. We had to erase or cover our black / white boards for this of course.

IDK if they paid.

I doubt it.

PE
 
I took the free tour back in the 80s. Also visited the George Eastman House.
 
I remember visiting the Eastman House when I was 15 or 16. It was excellent.
 
About 50 years ago we toured Kodak Park, it was an excellent tour. Not sure if there was a fee, It may have been associated with a conference my Dad attended every year. We rode on a company bus, had a guide and a driver. I remember how huge the place was, railroad tracks and cars everywhere. The injection molding machines, for plastic film cartridges and cameras was mind boggling. I still have a couple of post cards, may even have the complementary yellow with red Kodak logo book of matches, they handed out at the end. I bet that 90% of what I viewed is gone. I miss the 20th century.
 
Yes, Kodak Park was huge,

But in general the size of these plants is underestimated. For instance for a walk just around the fencing of Agfa's major plant at Antwerp one needs about an hour, not counting the late logistics etc. facilities in town.

For the Orwo plant one better took a bike from the start.
 
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Americans never walk...

Furthermore I wanted to indicate the size of a plant, not the way to explore it.
 
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Photo Engineer said:
You did not walk around Kodak Park, you took a bus!

PE
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I don't think EKCo. wanted a bunch of tourists wandering about. I was probably 10 or 11, I remember seeing safety showers, I don't think I had seen one before. I remember how proud Kodak was of recycling of the black plastic in the Instamatic cartridges. They used the power plants to incinerate the backing paper.

We went to Disney World the next? summer, bored me stiff. But the thing that really miffed me was GAF was the official film of Disney World, that proved that it was all a facade. .
 
Now this is something that’s really tempting.

Would I be allowed to bring a notebook and take notes?
 
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We went to Disney World the next? summer, bored me stiff. But the thing that really miffed me was GAF was the official film of Disney World, that proved that it was all a facade. .
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Kodak got outbid for that contract by GAF, which was so successful with that ploy they now just make asphalt shingles for roofs..
 
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