In 1970, working with Kodak, Osco built a photofinishing lab in Elgin, Illinois. This is used by photofinishing equipment during film processing. The store opened the first one-hour photofinishing lab in North America. As a teenager, Young was interested in photography and taught himself photofinishing. In 1958, he left the Army and returned to Washington, working in custom photofinishing. From 1951 to 1952, he was a batch worker at the Mayfair Photofinishing Company. Newton began what by 1920 was the largest mail order photofinishing business in the world.