There is something very Mission Impossible about planting a bomb in a photobooth. Check out the links to photobooth.net (below) to see how photobooths featured in the popular 1960s TV show.
http://www.photobooth.net/movies_tv/tvshows.php?tvshowID=34
http://www.photobooth.net/movies_tv/tvshows.php?tvshowID=35
http://www.photobooth.net/movies_tv/tvshows.php?tvshowID=103
What an extraordinary face and one hell of a “do”. This pic is from the USA and looks to me to date from the late 1960s.
Can’t make out what the writing on the back is about. I can read 2361 Lake but the rest of it I cannot read. Is it an address?
More and more, when I am shopping for old photobooth photos, I look for ones that appear in a context that gives me more information about the person than a single photo might. I was thrilled to find this beautiful and unintentionally funny letter written by Cathy Prindler to her favourite teacher Mrs McConnell. I am guessing she would have been 11 or 12 years old, as she is about to enter a junior high school in the USA, although the very 1960s back-combed, mini bee-hive “do” looks like it should belong to an older girl.
The letter has been glued to an album page and at some point cut out of its home, possibly for selling. It is another item made melancholy by the fact that it has parted ways with its owner through death, accident or neglect.
I quite often buy photos based on the title used by the seller. Of course the price has to be right and there needs to be something else that appeals; a look in the eye, a familiarity of features, a special item being worn or held. However, some of the more creative titles make imaginary theories about a person’s life spring so readily to mind, that it can be the deciding factor on whether to purchase or not.
This poor guy, listed under the title – THE MOST BORING MAN on THE PLANET! – got my sympathy. What was he trying to do? He looks completely unaware of the reason he got into the booth. Could it be that he didn’t realise that the flashes indicated the pictures were being taken? To me it looks as though he is still waiting for something to happen. Maybe he still is…
Photobooth Journal 