Fall Into the Gap

Vintage Goodness

Photobooth Tangent

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

What was your favorite toy?

I had a few...but always have had fond memories of my Chatty Kathy doll with the little plastic records that slid into her side...or so I thought. After a little internet snooping, it turns out I actually had a "Charmin' Chatty" doll, Kathy's younger cousin.

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