Ah, you live in the "heartland of rivers and streams", where it gets so humid.
Out here in the desert, we have to get to about 110 for that luscious feeling. Back in the old days, though, you could curl up and pickle and die in the darkroom with all the open trays.
We usually had beer in the darkroom!
I recall tray developing in a small darkroom. Pretty awful, especially if/when the fixer mixed with the activator.
Then we put a film processor in there. That thing gave off heat!! I'm sure Worker's Comp would have shut it down had they witnessed it.
This was the same place that bought a 45 gallon drum of MEK (methyl Ethel ketone) to use in place of blanket wash on the notion that it was cheaper. It wasn't. We ended up using it only as blanket fix . . .until Worker's Comp showed up & sealed it. Oh yeah. At first we didn't even have a pump. Had to siphon it out of the drum using the mouth method. I wonder how I'm alive. Blanket wash itself was bad enough in those days.
These days we only have to worry about breathing glue from another process. No ventilation in the building, and that stuff gets all over everything.
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