20 Vintage Photos of People Having Fun in the Photo Booth

There's a magic to the photo booth that no selfie stick or phone app can replicate. Maybe it's the cramped space. Maybe it's the countdown that gives you exactly 2.5 seconds to decide if you're going to pose, smooch, or stick out your tongue. Or maybe it's just the thrill of knowing these four tiny pictures will live forever on someone's fridge.

Whatever it is, the photo booth has always been a chaos machine disguised as a memory maker. It starts with "Let's take a cute one!" and ends with someone mid-sneeze or flashing a peace sign like it's Woodstock '69.

And guess what? It's not just us. People have always been like this. These 20 vintage photo booth snapshots prove that from the 1920s to the 1980s, the second you step inside that tiny curtain-wrapped box, something switches on. The silliness. The love. The human-ness. It's timeless. It's beautiful. It's wonderfully unfiltered.

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    The hand, 1950s

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    Three girls, 1960

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    Smoking, ladies glasses and weapons, 1950s

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    Buddy Holly and Waylon Jennings in NYC, 1959

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    Drinking, look at that hep cat tie!

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    1961 and 1965 with dogs

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    They popped that cork!

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    1940s couple

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    The Kiss

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    Photo booth love, 1960s

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    Girls from Melbourne, Aus, 1970s

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    Baby belly, 1969

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    1953

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    Cute couple!

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    Crossed-eyed

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    Friends, 1980s

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    Trio, 1930s

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    1920s girls (retouched)

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    A minor miner and his mother

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    Lady and beautifully composed dog

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