Because I had more photos of our store than any other, there are lots of photos loading. please be patient!
Because I had more photos of our store than any other, there are lots of photos loading. please be patient!
Store #1101 in Santa Maria is my own personal favorite, because I happen to have worked here for my entire tenure at Kinko's COPIES etc. This store was the last one to be closed forever on July 2, 1999. For those unfamiliar with our operation, each store had color coded daily paperwork. Santa Maria's was green! This is an article published in the Santa Maria Times the day after we closed. Click on the image above to read the full sized version. This photograph was snapped a few years ago. Notice the 24 Hours Sign; this was when we were first open 24 hours. The yellow sign in the window, unreadable in this photo, says "Self Service Copies as Low as 5 Cents!" It rains from time to time in Santa Maria. This photo is much more recent, circa 1998. The first dollar our store ever made, way back in 1976. Talk about nostalgia! A coupon from 1989! On March 30, 1999 we had a Customer Appreciation day as a Thank You for our customer's support over the 22 years they've been patronizing our store and the Ault Corporation. Cake anyone? Pass the kleenex while you're at it... Left to right: James, Jennifer S., Joe, Erika, Jason, Jen C., John, Norma, Jason. Sandy is behind the camera. Our intrepid manager, Sandy, helping a fellow manager in distress. This photo was taken while she was our acting General Manager. James, Assistant Manager and Computer Guy, calculates a percentage for a customer. Erika enlarges a poster on the newly-repaired 3060. Jason caught by suprise while patiently waiting for the passport timer. Jennifer S. using the 5690 as an arm rest. Sandy squints while attempting to read James' handwriting. James wonders if the sweet lady will ever finish with her fax cover sheet. Jairo from Xerox keeps our engineering copier humming like a top. Tony from Xerox argues with the 5690's stapler. Look closely, does it look like it's in an odd place? That's because it is. Tony's buddy Ray moved it up to the top shelf for us so we would have extra work space. Quite frankly, we should have had him just deep six the blasted thing because it never works anyway! That's Ray, the Stapler Mover and Xerox repairdude extraordinaire, with Memo, one of our former employees. Tony demonstrates the proper technique and tool for convincing the 5690 to run. Channellock pliers?! Sandy and James were sent to MacWorld Expo in San Francisco to research for the new computers we were SUPPOSED to get. Unfortunately we were bought out before we could get them. =( Sandy's wall of inspiration. She and I both have extremely creative minds. A few news articles about Sandy and our store. Click on the picture above to see a full-sized version. This sign hangs above our Customer Service Counter (Click here to see an older version of this sign!) The Community Bulletin Board in our Self Service area. Self Service Copiers, as viewed from behind the counter. When the new self service machines came in, we named them all after Monopoly characters. The computers' laser printer was named after James, the Computer Guy =) Jason takes out the garbage... Our poor company car was attacked by a flying minivan a few years back. Yes, you read right! The lady was pulling into this parking spot and hit the gas instead of the brake! The van is parked in the upper right hand corner of the picture. She hit the curb, went up and over and kept on going. She stopped up against the curb where the skid marks are. The bushes are all that kept her from continuing on into traffic. Who says the copy business isn't exciting? The great flood! During construction of Manhattan Bagel next door, a water leak saturated the carpeting along the wall. We had to temporarily turn the store upside down! Finding the leak was a challenge. We had about 6 feet of holes in the wall. We wanted to see if they would leave this hole in the wall so we could order bagels without leaving the store! Unfortunately our request was denied. Our old 5090 was named "Fantasia" since it was magically helpful! This is what we miss now that our store is being phased out! BIG jobs. This was a single box of an order containing more than 30 boxes of legal documents. These are more boxes from that same job. It took over a month, working 24 hours a day, to finish this job. Our employees worked on the job with the utmost enthusiasm! Right, Natalie? During the same month we had several other large jobs simultaneously. Yet another big job! The worker is Bjorn, one of our former employees. The "Break Room". That couch was MIGHTY comfortable after a hard day's work. Sandy argues with Kodak about getting the blasted machine fixed. James doing what he does best...play with computers. Jamie's exhuberence in the workplace earned him the Manager's slot in Santa Barbara store 1104 a few years back. He now works at Poor Richard's Press. Jen C. in the years B.C. and B.G. (Before Children and Before Glasses) This is the same sign as shown previously, with a few things missing! Memo demonstrates proper pointing techniques. Sandy works up a rubber stamp order. Sandy laughs it up in happier times. Here she works with Drucilla, a manager-in-training. We were here for you...all day, all night. (For proper effect, walk away from the monitor and sing "Happy Trails")
Jen C. shows the 5690 who's boss. 
Amy gets the giggles while Jairo (Xerox tech) fixes the engineering copier. 
Here, Sandy poses with the Imation Superdisk. Eeks. 
James with the SuperDisk. As you can see, we were both in awe of the mere presence of such a character. 
Yes, those are mylar balloons in the background. Anyone else remember selling those? 
There are no: Oversized copies, Color copies, or 24 Hours...but it DOES have Helium Balloons!
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