# Do All Women Like Photo Booths? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2023, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639 "2023-04-13T20:57:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/21 "2023-04-14T00:26:51Z")
You got married on April Fools Day?! šŸ˜„ ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/22 "2023-04-14T00:34:57Z")
Awww. Thanks for sharing. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/23 "2023-04-14T00:35:38Z")
Your photos demonstrate the purpose of photo booths. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/24 "2023-04-14T01:30:19Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > You got married on April Fools Day?! šŸ˜„ We figured if it didnā€™t work out weā€™d tell everybody it was an elaborate prank. Still could happen. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/25 "2023-04-14T01:44:20Z")
Hmmm. Reminds me of a cartoon I saw years go. An unhappy worker is standing before the bossā€™ desk. _You probably remember, Smith, that when we hired you twenty years ago we warned you the position might not be permanent._ ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/26 "2023-04-14T01:46:02Z")
My daughter and her friends have done phone booth pictures in the last year or two, so theyā€™re out there somewhere in the wildā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/27 "2023-04-14T02:36:22Z")
Beautiful pics QtM!! My bestie and her daughter have always done photo booths. I donā€™t know how she finds so many but she does go to a lot of amusement parks. She has a huge collection of them, some with her nieces before her daughter was born. By the time her daughter was out of her crib she had enough photo strips to take the crib spring board and use it as a backdrop to display them. Her daughter is only 10 now and the thing is over flowing. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/28 "2023-04-14T02:57:43Z")
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/29 "2023-04-14T02:59:56Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > My daughter and her friends have done phone booth pictures in the last year or two, so theyā€™re out there somewhere in the wildā€¦ I saw one recently at a big shopping mall. But who goes to the mall any more? šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/30 "2023-04-14T05:43:37Z")
I could also see them coming back for retro aesthetic reasons, ala vinyl. Seflies are so easy as to no longer be special. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/31 "2023-04-14T06:42:03Z")
Thanks for sharing, @Qadgop_the_Mercotan. If I had to write a caption for those two pics, it would be something like ā€œA life well livedā€. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/32 "2023-04-14T12:11:09Z")
Hereā€™s a photo booth picture from 1986, of me and my friend Rachel. (Thatā€™s me on the left). There were three pictures in a strip, so we took the first one with serious expressions, the second smiling, and the third laughing. However, this is the only one that survived! My mom said we looked like teen hookers. [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52817079555_a49c4786fa_b.jpg "Photo booth") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/45215582@N06/52817079555/) ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/33 "2023-04-14T13:04:22Z")
You look nicer than any teen hookers _Iā€™ve_ everā€¦ uhhā€¦ That wasnā€™t a very nice thing of your mother to say. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/34 "2023-04-14T13:10:13Z")
Good save! šŸ˜„ ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/35 "2023-04-14T13:34:54Z")
TWA Hotel at JFK airport has one, right across from the shoe shine area; on the other side they have _five_ rotary-dial payphones! supposedly they work for real calls but you can also put in a dime & dial \_\_ to get a message from TWA. The whole place is retro & funā€¦& on the public/unsecured side of the airport so anyone can visit; we werenā€™t flying, we went just to see the hotel. Iā€™ve also seen a Marvel themed one in a mall recently; didnā€™t bother to go in but Iā€™m guessing it prints Marvel characters on the border??? ---
**Author:** ![mjmartin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3d9bf3/32.png) [@mjmartin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mjmartin)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/36 "2023-04-14T14:02:20Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > But Iā€™ll bet they could make a comeback. There is a company, TapSnap that agrees. They franchise ā€œhigh-techā€ photo booths, that the franchisee then brings to weddings and parties. A franchisee brought one to a business marketing group I participated in. Our group was not terribly impressed, but I doubt we were the best audience for that type of thing. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/37 "2023-04-14T14:14:43Z")
People love those things at weddings and company Xmas parties. Iā€™m not sure how many opportunities there are to make this profitable though. A quick search in Santa Barbara shows that there are several competitors and they get around $700/night ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/38 "2023-04-14T14:22:00Z")
When I helped chaperone my schoolā€™s homecoming dance this fall, we had something they called a photo booth, but it wasnā€™t the little enclosed bench with a curtain: It was an open area with a camera pointed at a greenscreen, and a table with a bunch of props and costume pieces. We also had something even less like a traditional photo booth: A round platform that a few people could stand on at once, with a phone camera mounted on an arm that could swivel around the platform. Youā€™d press the start button and swing the arm around the platform, and itā€™d record a movie. Then the kids could take a picture of a QR code to get a link to their movie. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/39 "2023-04-14T15:18:07Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > My mom said we looked like teen hookers. You should have shown her something from Glamour Shots. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639/40 "2023-04-14T15:27:06Z")
From this side of the Atlantic - photo booths are a commonplace in the UK. My local store has one - [this sort of thing](https://www.tescophoto.com/passport-photo-booths). And as the link makes clear, a major use of them is for standard size photos for passports (and other photo ID). At this point I have the feeling that Iā€™m not understanding something about American society - I mean, you have a need for passport (etc) photos, right? How does that work? And to QtM and everyone else who posted photos - lovely. That was heartwarming on a cold, rainy day over here. j [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-all-women-like-photo-booths/982639.md?page=3)