Lost Gallery: Vintage Photobooth

Time for a nap.

There are so many.
Here is the ELEVENTH installment of the Photo-booth Series.

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I'm just a cutie, aren't I?

Dolly

Where the name is given it will appear in BOLD FACE below each picture.

Other commentary in
ITALICS

This is not actually my hair.

I'm a little rusty at this.

Don Kay has a misspelled tattoo.

I put my slow cooker in the microwave. Problem solved!

Theodore Behr had an unnatural fear of bears.

Mae Cassa

Sometimes the larger format portraits had an attendant at the photobooth.

While the attendant handled the lighting and snapped the actual shutter, the developing and printing was still largely automated as a "while-you-wait" service.

On reverse
Lyndell Faye
Boyles
1931

On Reverse:
Emma Roeder
March 1931
Taken in Dallas

Nona always talked to herself. No one else would.

Jennifer had psychic powers but didn't know what it meant.

Sarah Mony had a scrap book full of commas.

On reverse
Eloise Wheeler

On reverse
Beth Deaton

Norma Jean look-alike

On reverse
Gladys Wagner

Verdon loved long walks on the beach and pina coladas but he lived in Wyoming so he just stayed drunk all the time.

Felix Austed couldn't stand pigs and he always threw up whenever he recited that nursery rhyme.

"I don't get it," Geema said. "I just don't get it." And everyone agreed.

Katie's left turn signal was burned out so it took a little longer to get to work each day.

Henry was mixed up in politics. He was confused about most things, actually.

On reverse
Lenora Hoffman
Summer Station
Ohio

Bierman could count to ten if he used his fingers. Well, eleven if he used all of them.

Phasia kept most of her old boyfriends buried deep in her heart. The rest were in the cellar.

From her kitchen window, Malia thought she could see into the future. Actually it was just her patio.

Hilda was an explosives expert.

On reverse
Mary
Elizabeth
Watts

Gayle was always spot on but she never let on so no one ever caught on.

On reverse
William Gieseck

Huburt thought he could change the shape of the aurora borealis by flapping a bed sheet at them.

On reverse
Francis
C.
Dorothy
Morrison

Bunny was also comfortable with umbrellas but she was a little jumpy on Pogo Sticks.

On reverse
Miss
Mary Louise
Stires

On reverse
Louise Compton
Francis

On reverse
Lucille
Buckingham
Frances Crist

On reverse
Pauline Egan
funny girl
Frances E Crist

On reverse
Paul Stanley
funny girl

On reverse
Frances Crist

At ten, Ilsa knew which way was North and how to get there.

B. G. likes this

On Reverse:
Frances

I'm never sure whether these strips are actually from a photobooth or not.

This is the ELEVENTH installment of the Photo-booth Series.

For a review here is
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PAGE NINE -
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Page Eleven - (This One)
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