I recently had nearly 2,000 slides scanned from a service called ScanCafe, a company based in Burlingame, CA in the heart of Silicon Valley. I love their story and how it all started because it’s not dissimilar to my own.
One of the ScanCafe’s co-founder who I’ve yet to meet, had to travel back to Switzerland to attend the funeral of his grandfather. They tell the story: “Every family seems to have a family archivist, and among his many gifts, Laurent’s grandfather was an enthusiastic photographer, who left behind countless Agfacolor prints, slides and negatives. As the engineer in the family, Laurent volunteered to scan in all those old photographs so that they could be shared with…
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