Photobooth! Coming to Valencia Street in SF

Thanks to this morning's Daily Candy email, I now know about "Photobooth" http://www.photoboothsf.com/Photobooth_SF.html
This really looks neat! I love that not everyone is so taken with modern technology and that with the advent of greater and greater availability of that technology, that there are those who continue to look back at the origins and history of our modern conveniences. Vince Donovan and Michael Shindler, local San Francisco photographers are opening up a photo studio where you can go and have your portrait taken and then printed either on Polaroid or Tin Type...yes, I did say Tin Type! That old Civil War era photographic process where images were exposed onto chemically treated sheets of tin. I am not sure what the cost is of this, but I think it would be worth whatever they charge (as long as it doesn't include an arm and a leg!) to have such a unique souvenir.


Photobooth, 1193 Valencia Street, at 23rd Street (415-824-1248 or photoboothsf.com). Grand opening party, Saturday, 6-9:30 p.m.; R.S.V.P. to rsvp@photoboothsf.com

Family Photos...

Over Christmas weekend, I had a chance to visit my grandma. She will be 95 in a few short weeks. During our visit, she pulled out photos that she carries with her in her purse. A couple of them are very old, going back to the 40s and 50s. I didn't have a proper camera with me, but wanted to snap a pic of what she was showing to me, so I used my phone camera which doesn't come out all that good, but had to do. :)

The photos are of her in front of a merry go round, one of my great grandfather and my aunt as a child, one of my grandpa in front of the apartment building that he and my grandma managed in Hollywood in the 60s and 70s and one in 1953 of my grandpa and aunt at the farm where they lived in upstate New York.