Instagram and Hipstamatic Old Fashioned 'dip 'n' dunk' Photo Booths Still Holding Their Own

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In bars all over the country and at events from weddings to corporate conferences, photo booths lure patrons behind their starchy, cut-off curtains, the two minute wait still provoking the same nervous excitement as it has since the 1920s.

Nostalgia: Old fashioned photo booths are still as popular as ever despite the emergence of digital technology and apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic

LA Times reporter, Gale Holland, believes the preservation of such dated technology in the Instagram era is down to a search for 'authenticity'.

'Photo booth photos are of the moment,' she writes. 'Once the money is plunked into the little metal slot, we have to live with the consequences.'

 Bess Byers, a Venice marketing researcher who snapped herself in Los Angeles bar One-Eyed Gypsy's vintage booth concurred: 'I'm so over digital. With film you only have one shot and that's that. You have to make it count.'

Nostalgia for a time gone by is certainly a big part of the appeal, both as a personal trip down memory lane for merry-makers who grew up with the 'dip' 'n' dunk', and as a classy amenity for owners.

Fun: Bars across the country see customers flocking to the tiny booths and waiting in nervous excitement for the photographs that unlike Instagram pictures, you can actually hold

Vintage: For those who grew up with photo booths, nostalgia plays a key role in the attraction but experts say the quality of the photograph also far exceeds the digital competition

'The photo booth is very consistent with our venue's brand identity,' Eddy Buckingham, owner of 1950s inspired bar, The Liberty NYC, told us. 'Ours is a venue nostalgic for the mid twentieth century, a time when New York City was establishing itself as the capital of the world.'

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