Photobooth Pics

PringleTree · Post by **PringleTree** » Mon Jan 20, 2025 1:09 am

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 12:01 am Wonderful, fascinating, glimpses of humanity on their passages thu time. Thank you for sharing these.

Thank you, QS. I'm glad you enjoyed them.

Chris J.

knife7knut · Post by **knife7knut** » Tue Jan 21, 2025 7:53 am

GREAT PICS!!! I especially like the colorized ones. If l recall there was an extra charge for that and not all machines were capable of doing it. I know professional photographerrs charged for it and it was done with an airbrush.
Awhile back l acquired a picture handled Thornton that someone had lifted the handles slightly and inserted their own photo booth pics under. I removed them but saved the pics. Here they are along with the knife. Assuming it was done in the 1950's, the subjects are likely my age now.

PringleTree · Post by **PringleTree** » Tue Jan 21, 2025 8:28 am

Hi knife7knut:

Wow, thanks for sharing the knife and the images--so glad that you saved them! They are so much a part of the history of that knife. Regarding the color images, yes, if you look closely you can tell that it's not color film--they have been hand-tinted. I may be wrong, but it's my understanding that in the early decades of photo booths, many had attendants. You could pay extra to have the pics hand-colored by an artist and then mailed to you.

Chris J.