The first Photomaton photobooth opened on Broadway, between 51st and 52nd streets, in 1925.
Photo courtesy of August Cosentino MIDDLESEX -- Brother and sister John and Karen Cosentino had this photobooth picture taken in Middlesex in 1968.
According to a March 2008 article on telegraph.co.uk, the photobooth, as it is popularly called, was invented by commercial photographer Anatol Josepho (born Josephewitz in Russia in 1894) from blueprints he originally devised in 1921.
The article notes that "by September 1925 he had opened up his Photomaton Studio on Broadway, between 51st and 52nd streets. Crowds, as many as 7,500 people a day, would line up to have their photos taken for 25 cents for a strip of eight: the place came to be known as 'Broadway's greatest quarter-snatcher.'"
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