I was kind of surprised that I hadn’t seen it here, but the last roll of Kodachrome has been developed:
In my search, I found this thread discussing the end of production:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=521967&highlight=kodachrome
“Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away…”
Wasn’t mama but technology, Paul.
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You scared me there. This was the last roll of Kodachrome that was ever manufactured that was developed.
Dwayne’s labs will continue to develop Kodachrome film until December 10 of this year:
I’m sure there are plenty of rolls of Kodachrome in cold storage, and I’ll bet you’ll be able to find someone to develop it at specialty stores or photography clubs for quite a while.
Kodachrome is considerably more difficult and complex to develop than any other type of film:
You have to expose the film to colored lights during various points in the process, which would be tricky to do without a purpose-built processor.
E6 (e.g., Ektachrome) is a cinch to develop by comparison.
If you have any Kodachrome left, you MUST send it to Dwayne’s Photo by the end of this year.
At least I’ve still got a Nikon camera … it’s just there’s a CCD to give me the nice bright colors, the greens of summers, and make me think all the world’s a sunny day. Mama, don’t take my CCD away-ye-yay! It even scans right!
It’s neat what they’re doing with the last roll. The lab’s in a little town in Kansas. http://www.kansas.com/2010/07/14/1403115/last-kodachrome-roll-processed.html
Bump for the official closing of Dwayne’s Photo today. 
NYT article: For Kodachrome Fans, Road Ends at Photo Lab in Kansas
That article, strangely, made me quite sad.
Damnit! I just got a good shot of Elvis getting off a UFO.
Here’sSteve McCurry’s blog post acknowledging the last roll being developed. Kodak gave him the last roll that was produced and it was developed at Dwayne’s. His post includes some of the pictures from that roll.
Yeah, Kodachrome had a great name, and because of Paul Simon it will live on forever in boomer’s memories. But the truth is that CCD/CMOS technology has largely supplanted them for general use, and for a lot of professional use.
I stopped using Kodachrome in 91 when I discovered Velvia, which is vastly superior in resolution and produces better colors, especially for outdoor photography. It remains popular and certainly has more to do with the death of Kodachrome than digital photography…
The first article linked made me a bit sad too, in part that whoever wrote it misspelled loupe twice. Already the common tools are uncommon enough that they a) have to be explained, and b) are unfamiliar enough that nobody said “that doesn’t look right” and left it misspelled.