Analog photobooth, dip and dunk, vintage, chemical black and white photobooth … we are passionate about keeping these icons a part of American culture for future generations to enjoy. Do you have a photobooth that you’re tired of maintaining or storing? We’ve purchased all kinds, can fix anything, and offer fair prices.
Selling a vintage photo booth?
We pay top of the market prices
Yes, we really do pay top dollar – to the extent that we’ve been made fun of in the past for paying too much. We are a small shop and consistently offer more due to lower overhead and a love for these machines beyond just making profit. In short, we are collectors. With Photo Bang, if you get a better offer we’ll beat it.
We’ve purchased photobooths from San Francisco to New York City, and Los Angeles to Quebec. Mint condition cut up and on their last leg. We buy in bulk as well. Typically we just need some info and a handful of photos to offer a fair price for your photo booth. We can pay quickly and send a freight company to pick the machine up. We also offer valuations or suggestions for where else to sell it, or even how to fix it yourself.
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Production Company needing prop photobooth?
We have different photobooth options and many eras of photobooths! We offer short and long term leases for vintage photobooths. We’ve worked with major and smaller production companies. Contact for us details.
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Contact UsFAQ:
(1) Do you sell analog photobooths? No. We have decided to no longer sell our machines on the open market. We’re at capacity and finishing up sales on what machines we are willing to sell.
(2) Do you ship to other countries? Yes. However, we cannot offer a quote for shipping. It is often less expensive when you obtain a quote from a shipping company in your home country. Contact us for shipping dimensions so you my obtain your own quote.
(3) Do you offer discounts for “collabs”? No. We value privacy. Whether you’re a private collector, production company or mere mortal like us, we treat everyone the same. We do not name drop or offer discounts to do so.
(4) Do you do events? No. Sorry.
Auto-Photo Model 9 vintage photobooth, and a Model 11
A sample of our project history
Model 17 Replica Photobooth
Built new to look and act like a vintage machine. It features mirrors in the style of the Ace Hotel model 17 booths, a vintage style top sign, adjustable stool, door and curtains, all operating in a true vintage fashion. The photobooth lives at a Las Vegas style wedding chapel in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
1968 Model 17 Black & White Photobooth
A 1968 Model 17 Analog in excellent condition. With highly sought after creamy linen exterior and woodgrain interior with original vintage floor and stool, this booth shipped internationally to a retail store in Tokyo, Japan.
Early 1950s Model 11 Analog Photobooth
This photobooth has a beautiful patina, featuring the iconic rounded shape and original hand painted signage. We completely rewired this machine and updated the flash system to use modern studio flashes. It functions well and is one of only a handful of Model 11 photobooths in the world that still works. It now lives in a private residence in Santa Barbara, California.
1958 Model 14 Analog Photobooth
This photobooth was restored by us, then placed locally as a vending photobooth. After a brief 3 month placement at Modern Nomad in the RiNo neighborhood of Denver, it sold quickly to a new buyer. It currently lives in a private home in Charlotte, North Carolina.
1958 Model 14 Wing-Top Photobooth
This photobooth lived it’s entire life in the world famous Playland Arcade on Times Square, NY until it closed it’s doors in 1994. We purchased it from the collector who owned it from 1994 until 2018. Sold unrestored to Warner Bros for use a set prop in the film It: Chapter 2, released in 2019.
1968 Model 17 Photobooth
Purchased from a bar on the East Coast and brought to Denver for restoration. It had been maintained well over it’s near-50 year life, though the exterior needed some loving clean up as it was contemporary to it’s last restoration in the 1990s. We returned it to a more vintage design.
What does a Photo Bang restoration look like?
While every restoration is different, Photo Bang’s focus is to keep with the original appearance and style of each photobooth. We regularly encounter photobooths that have been altered in both appearance and function. All restorations focus on getting a booth working and then returning them to their intended appearance. Below are details on restore that we performed on a booth we sold a while back.
Our restoration entailed:
- A good cleaning of the entire cabinet
- Re-covered exterior in glossy Formica brand finish
- Polishing light surface rust off of metal trim
- Installing new metal trim around the doorway
- Installing new Linoleum grey linen finish floor
- A “tune” of the interior mechanics
- Sanding and painting camera body exterior
- New capacitor installed into “silver box” flash controller
- Installing original vintage photobooth curtain
- Building a pallet with straps to ship the photobooth
Sales price included:
- 1968 Model 17 Analog Vintage Photobooth
- Full set of chemical tanks
- PDF of the manual for the Model 17
- Download of a maintenance training video