EVER wondered what happened to those modelling shots you had done in the 1980s?What about the photograph of when Grandma had first arrived in Bankstown or when your sister or brother graduated from university?
These memorable scenes, thought lost to history, may be hiding in a large box of hundreds and hundreds of unclaimed photographs at Uncle Sam’s Fast Photo Service in Bankstown.
Starting out very small over 35 years ago, with just a booth on the railway station platform, Sam Rajasuriar expanded into a larger shop next door when it became vacant some 20 years ago.
Keen to do a bit of a store revamp, Sam needs the space the box is taking up and wants to return as many photos as possible and is not seeking any payment.
“I just can’t throw them out,” he said.
Sam’s friend Roderick Eime has taken some of the photographs to publish on social media.
“There are old wedding photos, graduations, school photos, 21st birthdays, christenings, departed loved ones and restored historic images of days gone by,” Roderick said.
Some of the album of ‘missing persons’ is available at flickr.com/photos/rodeime/albums or pop into Sam’s Fast Photo Service at 139 Bankstown City Plaza to reclaim your special moment.
Call out to anyone missing memories
WITH hundreds of memories left gathering dust and needing to find their way back home, Samuel Rajasuriar, from Uncle Sam’s Fast Photo Service, with some of the uncollected photos that have been piling up for the last 35 years.