Remember Photo Booths? Those magical machines in Five and Dime stores where you sat on the funny hard bench and showed your true self in 4 quick photos. I remember so distinctly the one at our local Woolworth store. My mom, being the practical German that she is, would never allow us to waste our money on a photo booth. So it was a special treat to get to junior high and have a little of my own money to sit down and capture myself and friends in those 4 photos.
We recently went to Dollywood, a local amusement park in Pigeon Forge, TN with our dear friends the Myers. Dollywood has the modern day equivalent to the old chemical-based photo booth – a digital one. Check out some of the neat pictures we took:
There is even a site devoted to the old time chemical-based booths at Photobooth.net and Flickr has a bunch of groups and images.
If you have any, please post them in our gallery and share with everyone!
Till next time – Keep Snappin’
Stan
(Photo Booth picture courtesy of Creative Commons license)
November 14, 2008
I think I have one of these of my mother and her sister MANY years ago. Need to go dig through the old photos.
Wow! We all look like dorks!
I remember doing this in my teen years. How fun!