Eastman Kodak Co. employed more than 60,000 people in the area in the 1980s, according to the Democrat & Chronicle newspaper. Xerox and Bausch & Lomb also had world headquarters in the city, and IBM employed more than 8,000 there at one point. A Kodak parking lot, left, and smokestacks, in the years after the company started to demolish old company buildings in Rochester, N.Y. (GeekWire Photos / Kurt Schlosser) In 2015, three years after Kodak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, The New York Times wrote about how the company was clinging to a future after film.