Fox Photo

Carl Newton, a Canadian, moved to San Antonio and purchased the studio at the end of 1909 for $700 (equivalent to $21,111 in 2021), as amateur photography was in its infancy.

[3] Fox Photo operated retail stores and large commercial photofinishing plants where many large retail companies, including Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart, and Walgreens along with many small drug stores sent their customer's photos to be processed.

Perhaps the most visible consumer-level facet of Fox Photo was the chain of one-hour processing booths that were established in shopping mall parking lots in the early-to-mid-1980s.

In the chase scene(s) in Back to the Future, the Libyan terrorists crash their van into a Fox Photo booth at the Twin Pines/Lone Pine Mall.

In 1987 Kodak sold the retail stores to interests whose principal was Carl Newton III.