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Abandoned for years, San Francisco's last Fotomat from the 1970s sat in a vacant parking lot, seeming destined for demolition.

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2 Apr

But Arthur Javier and Erika Martinez, co-founders of the radio station and record label program.audio, read an SFGATE article featuring the little mushroom hut and saw potential in the architectural oddity.

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“I hadn’t even seen the inside just like you, but I just felt like one person, DJ equipment, had to fit in there somehow,” Javier told SFGATE's Amanda Bartlett on a recent Thursday afternoon. “We’d figure it out, even if it was a complete mess. We knew it could be Pandora’s box in there.”

sfgate.comAbandoned piece of history on SF's Haight Street finds a new tenant"We knew it could be Pandora’s box in there."

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