Gridskipper

Cha Cha's booth is tucked snugly into the wall and covered with a bamboo screen, making it a more permanent part of the bar and less like just another appliance. It's set up to print the name of the bar between… each frame, a charming attempt to keep up with the customization possible with digital photobooths. Like its older sister in Seattle, Silver Lake's Cha Cha is a great place to let the night fade away in a haze, leaving only a photobooth strip to remind you of what happened. [link]

One of the last $2 photobooths around, the booth at Bar 107 is jammed behind two benches in the back room, creating a bit of a challenge when it comes time to retrieve your strip from the machine. The photos come… out streaked and dirt-stained, which, in the world of old-fashioned photobooths, is actually a bonus: anything that demonstrates the unique, fleeting nature of these one-of-a-kind photos is a plus. [link]

A nice photobooth in a classy location, out on the back patio behind the bar in this old fire station. Giant photostrip blowups demonstrate the crazy high resolution of old-style photobooths, and well, at least… there's one part of a night at the Edendale that's still cheap. [link]

The Gaslamp doesn't seem like the kind of place that would have a photobooth, but that's the great thing about it: it reminds you of a time when you didn't have to go to a hipster bar or a run-down amusement park… to find a real live photobooth. In the lobby of this Long Beach restaurant and bar, you'll find this color booth, out of place yet right at home. [link]

The photobooth at the Short Stop is a little too much at times — featured in an episode of Ugly Betty, covered in the New York Times — but it's still a great black and white booth,… situated in the perfect place to do the true work of a modern-day photobooth. Since they're no longer accepted for making passport photos, photobooths are now employed almost solely to capture a night of debauchery with friends and strangers. [link]

One place where photobooths have always lived and continue to thrive today is the beach. You can find them at Coney Island, the Jersey Shore, and the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, and in Los Angeles, you can find… them at the Santa Monica Pier. There's no better way to cap off a day at the beach than a ride on the carousel, a game of skee-ball, and a strip of four underexposed, chemical-stained photos in a Model 21 booth. Four dollars — and remember, quarters only. [link]