Photo Booth Museum (Photomatica)

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San Francisco's first-ever photo booth museum showcasing four functioning vintage photo booths that date to the 1950s. One booth prints three photos on the world's only wide format analog photo strip. The museum occupies a 500-square-foot space and has been welcoming more than 500 visitors per day since opening. The overall vibe is lighthearted and joyful, with visitors excited about having physical keepsakes. Each photo strip is 100% unique with no digital copies. The museum is planning to expand and double in size by building out the back half of the shop with more photo booths. A vintage photo booth museum opened by Photomatica, a local company that builds photo booths, restores old ones and provides event rentals. The museum features multiple analog photo booths including one that dates to the 1930s. The 1930s booth is not quite operational but visitors can sit in it bathed in vintage yellow light for a selfie. The museum has what they call America's oldest publicly operating analog photo booth, which takes four images in a curtained booth with a single stool. The machine literally dips the strip in toner and other chemical booths in its own bespoke darkroom. Entry to the museum is free. The painted exterior boasts that you can get an 'X-tra wide analog photo strip' inside. An earlier iteration of the museum was Club Photomatica which opened in the Haight in August as a brick-and-mortar store with a handful of booths. The black-and-white analog images are very flattering. Photomatica vintage booth location found across the city - appears to be the main museum location A new vintage photo booth museum where visitors can take their portraits in multiple antique photo booths. The shop offers visitors the chance to take photos inside a variety of vintage 1940s-60s photo booths. Inside Photomatica you will find an Auto Photo Model 9 (1940s-50s), Auto Photo Model 12 (1960s), Auto Photo Model 14 (1960s), and one booth currently being restored. In the back of the shop, you'll find technicians restoring additional photo booths. Co-owned by photo booth enthusiasts Matt Dewalt and Doug Ellington. Dewalt and Ellington started out displaying their photo booths in a Haight Street garage back in 2010. Printing and frame shop that originally had a 1960 Auto-Photo Model 14 photo booth, but it was moved next door to Photomatica due to overwhelming popularity on weekends with Gen-Z people from out of town.

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