A & A Studios

I just visited this business as part of the International Photobooth Convention 2014, and it was fabulous! A & A is in the business of restoring vintage photobooths, and this convention was basically a big love letter to everyone who loves this art form as much as they do! For $ 18 you could spend a few hours taking as many pics as you wanted in the assorted booths, mostly chemical (two digital). For context, one strip usually costs about $ 3 or 4 if you can find one of these machines in a bar, arcade or funky shop these days. It was great to talk shop with the people who know this stuff, and I even got to peek at the innards of one of the color machines when one of the techie guys popped it open to check on something: you could see all the vats of colored inks and bleach that the strip gets dipped into. Neat!
A & A not only restores photobooths, they also rent them, and they do revenue sharing rentals too if you want one at your business (hint, hint, Chicago!)
They also had a cool array of vintage photo paraphernalia (cameras etc.) in addition to the booths.
For their expertise in keeping this nostalgic technology alive, A & A deserves an A+!