Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Tijuana's Fotocolor, digital and Covid victim
Since the public events like weddings are forbidden, we’d struggle a lot
Francisco Garcia, since 1989 in the Zona Rio.
Francisco Garcia, 63 years, owns the last analogic photo lab in Tijuana. His business had been offering its services since 1989 on the same spot; La Plaza del Zapato in the Zona Rio Tijuana. But this year he couldn’t keep the business open any longer due to Covid.
After finishing his studies in Guadalajara as electronics engineer, he moved to Ciudad Obregon in Sonora where he got a job as maintenance assistant he found advertised in the newspaper. .
“They told me I got the job, so when I showed up to work the first day, I realized that my job was in a photography lab. I was 28 years old, but since 14 I was a big fan of photography.
He learned the entire printing process and got specialized fixing bulb machines. His bosses sent him to study in Mexico City.
He ended up in Tijuana because a company from Guadalajara hired him to set up a photo lab. “I had it to go to Los Angeles to buy the machines, hire employees, train them, make the bureaucracy and permissions with the municipality,” Francisco said. “But I just spent a couple of years there because they told me I couldn’t have a higher position.”
"I can survive with 3,000 pesos because I have my own house."
He decided to begin his own photo lab, FotoColor. He got to 10 employees a couple of months after he opened the shop. The biggest Tijuana newspapers used to go there to develop their photos. “Newspapers as El Heraldo, Zeta, and Notimex, the federal news agency.
Throughout 32 years he managed to survive the arrival of Costco and Kodak in the digital photo era. “The transition period to the digital era in Tijuana was mainly in 2007/2008. We managed to purchase digital equipment and survived. But with the pandemic and all the public events like weddings etc., forbidden, we’d struggle a lot."
He held on one year paying the rent, but at the beginning of 2021, he got behind two months on his payments; 12,500 pesos ($600 USD) a month. And after 32 years in the same spot, the landlord required him to vacate the place in 14 days.
“I used to pay $3,000 USD on private school tuition when two of my sons were in CETYs University. Now I can survive with 3,000 pesos because I have my own house.... My idea now is to open a photographic development workshop open for the public. Analogic photography is bouncing back up with the youth...."
Here's something you might be interested in.
Tijuana's Fotocolor, digital and Covid victim
Since the public events like weddings are forbidden, we’d struggle a lot
Tijuana's Fotocolor, digital and Covid victim
Since the public events like weddings are forbidden, we’d struggle a lot
Francisco Garcia, since 1989 in the Zona Rio.
Francisco Garcia, 63 years, owns the last analogic photo lab in Tijuana. His business had been offering its services since 1989 on the same spot; La Plaza del Zapato in the Zona Rio Tijuana. But this year he couldn’t keep the business open any longer due to Covid.
After finishing his studies in Guadalajara as electronics engineer, he moved to Ciudad Obregon in Sonora where he got a job as maintenance assistant he found advertised in the newspaper. .
“They told me I got the job, so when I showed up to work the first day, I realized that my job was in a photography lab. I was 28 years old, but since 14 I was a big fan of photography.
He learned the entire printing process and got specialized fixing bulb machines. His bosses sent him to study in Mexico City.
He ended up in Tijuana because a company from Guadalajara hired him to set up a photo lab. “I had it to go to Los Angeles to buy the machines, hire employees, train them, make the bureaucracy and permissions with the municipality,” Francisco said. “But I just spent a couple of years there because they told me I couldn’t have a higher position.”
"I can survive with 3,000 pesos because I have my own house."
He decided to begin his own photo lab, FotoColor. He got to 10 employees a couple of months after he opened the shop. The biggest Tijuana newspapers used to go there to develop their photos. “Newspapers as El Heraldo, Zeta, and Notimex, the federal news agency.
Throughout 32 years he managed to survive the arrival of Costco and Kodak in the digital photo era. “The transition period to the digital era in Tijuana was mainly in 2007/2008. We managed to purchase digital equipment and survived. But with the pandemic and all the public events like weddings etc., forbidden, we’d struggle a lot."
He held on one year paying the rent, but at the beginning of 2021, he got behind two months on his payments; 12,500 pesos ($600 USD) a month. And after 32 years in the same spot, the landlord required him to vacate the place in 14 days.
“I used to pay $3,000 USD on private school tuition when two of my sons were in CETYs University. Now I can survive with 3,000 pesos because I have my own house.... My idea now is to open a photographic development workshop open for the public. Analogic photography is bouncing back up with the youth...."
Comments