All's Fair

I didn't make it to any state fairs this year. And summer came and went. However, I did stumble upon this slice of Americana. It'll have to do!

Minnesota State Fair on Flickr.

(good job, Mykl Roventine)

Just because we can, we do.

(I tried to link to the original source of this photo

but couldn't find it on Flick'r.)

American Photobooth

I love those old photobooth pictures! Such interesting, funny and touching portraits have been taken since its invention. My favorite is this one of my mom and dad, which I recently discovered in a box of books. It fell out of a paperback copy of "The Little Prince".
A new book is out on the history of the American Photobooth, by Näkki Goranin (W. W. Norton, 2008) . I can't wait to read it.

Here is a fun website filled with photobooth photos:
http://squareamerica.com/pb1.htm

With a name like Big Happy Funhouse...

...it's got to be good. Interesting old pictures, funny captions (scroll over the pics to see them).

Big Happy Funhouse