My name is Laurie McCarthy, and in 2018, I started a little business called Scan South… right in my dining room. Now, I’d love to tell you this was some brilliant entrepreneurial master plan. It wasn’t. It actually started because my husband began scanning his dad’s old Army slides on this tiny little slide scanner I had bought years earlier from SKYMALL magazine. And for anyone under 40… SKYMALL was basically Amazon for people trapped on airplanes making questionable financi

Stacks of dusty yellow boxes and brittle plastic cases sit in closets, holding the only records of weddings, first steps, and long-lost relatives. These film reels and magnetic tapes act as ticking clocks, silently decaying with every year that passes without intervention. Most people assume these memories are safe in the box, but the chemistry of the film itself is working against its own survival. Moving these records into a modern format solves the problem of physical deca