WE BUY VINTAGE analog photo booths
Analog, dip and dunk, vintage, chemical black and white photobooth … we are passionate about preserving this part of Americana for future generations to enjoy. Do you have a photobooth that you’re tired of maintaining or storing? We’re offering fair prices.
Selling a vintage photobooth?
We pay top dollar. We’re always on the hunt for classic booths to restore.
We can offer great prices for your old photobooth due to the low overhead of our small shop. Our love for these machines also transcends profits and cheating anyone. We believe the best deal happens when both parties walk away feeling great and this philosophy runs throughout our entire business. Lastly, we make our living through our local vending business so we can build our analog collection. With Photo Bang, if you get a better offer for a photobooth that we want, we’ll beat it.
We’ve purchased photobooths from San Francisco to New York City, and Los Angeles to Quebec. Mint condition, half destroyed by hurricanes, and in pieces. We will buy one or an entire warehouse. Contact us for an efficient, fair transaction.
LOOKING TO BUY an analog photobooth?
While we have some classic and antique photobooths in our inventory, we do not have anything currently available. Much of what we have is in various stages of restoration. Check back here or follow us on Instagram to see what we are currently working on.
PRODUCTION IN NEED OF A HERO PROP?
We’ve worked with both large and small productions. We understand the financial side of the process as well as set designer and director’s vision. We keep a private collection that can be styled and deployed given a realistic timeline (including time in transit). We also don’t name drop and value your privacy.
How we buy them …
We’ve driven or flown to our sellers to load a truck or two, helped them dig out from basements and barns. We also promptly send freight companies to pickup, or have driven across states to tow photobooths ourselves on trailers. We are flexible and try to make it easy for sellers.
A barn full of Model 17 and 14 photobooths in the Arizona desert. We flew there, rented a truck and bought supplies to build pallets in 100+ degree heat for two days from a seller who leveraged these booths in the early 2000s to build a massive event business that allowed him to travel all over the USA. We loaded up two semi trucks on day 3. We're now friends with the seller and stay in touch.
“I purchased this Pre-WW2 Mutoscope Photomatic from where it sat in a home garage for over 50 years in El Paso. During the course of the deal I found out the Seller was retired military from a tiny area in Central Washington near where my parents grew up. My Dad had passed away only a couple years before and was also retired military. This connection made finding such a rare antique so much more special, so I drove to meet the Seller and load and transport the photobooth myself. I thought about what a small world it can be, and thought my Dad would have enjoyed this trip if he was still here. I called family, friends and photoboothers around the world on my trip to pass the time.” - Vince, Photo Bang founder
A 1950s Model 9 (L) and Model 11 (R) purchased out of Oklahoma City. When a prominent business man passed away in the 1980s, his massive collection was stored away in a warehouse until recently. An estate sale company called us looking for a valuation and historical information. When the booths did not sell locally for the minimum values we gave, we offered the family of the estate more, made sure the estate company got their cut, and sent a freight company to pick them up and bring them to Denver.
Coming soon is a blog where we will tell the stories of these photobooths and others, as well as other photobooth-related odds and ends.SOME PAST PROJECTS
Model 14 photobooth from the late 1950s. We built a new roof and floor for it and it features a cast camera. Sold to private owner in North Carolina.
An early 1950s Model 11 Auto-Photo photobooth, featuring original hand-painted signage. This machine sold to a private collector in Santa Barbara.
Model 17 late 1960s photobooth featuring a brand new gloss linen exterior was sold to a client in Portland who exported it to his private home in Denmark.
Model 17 photobooth featuring original vintage signage and woodgrain interior was put on a plane to Japan for placement in a department store near Kyoto.