Preston Fleet
Preston Mitchell Fleet (1934 – 1995), nicknamed Sandy, was the founder of Fotomat Fotomat was a once-widespread retail chain of photo development drive-thru kiosks located in shopping center parking lots. Fotomat Corporation was founded by Preston Fleet in San Diego, California, in the 1960s, (the first kiosk was opened in Point Loma, California, in 1965), and became a public company in 1971 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 1977.[1] At its peak around 1980 there were over 4,000 Fotomats throughout the United States, primarily in suburban areas. Fotomats were distinctive for their pyramid-shaped gold-colored roofs and signs with red-lettering, usually positioned in a large parking area such as a supermarket or strip mall, as the Fotomat huts required a minimal amount of land and were able to accommodate cars driving up to drop off or pick up film. [2]
He was a co-founder of San Diego's Reuben H. Fleet Science Center and Space Museum He help design the Science Center to have special movie projector, Omnimax, housed in a dome wall and ceiling that makes the audience feel as if there are moving like the camera did when filming. Fleet hobby was to be an aviator and a good player of theater organs. [3] He was for a time the president of the National Theatre Organ Society. He also was an inventor, co-founder WD-40. he attended Culver Military Academy. His wife is Beth Fleet.[4]
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- Imax made after Omnimax.
- Chronos (film) Preston Mitchell Fleet help make.
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