Photo booths to vanish from metro
I don’t know how many metro stations still have photo booths (I can only clearly recall the one at Peel) but now they will all be going away.
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Jebediah Pallindrome 18:59 on 2020-11-18 Permalink
I love the photo with the fresh squeezed OJ booth… because when you want Florida-fresh orange juice, you instinctively think “Peel Metro station, mezzanine level’
CE 19:25 on 2020-11-18 Permalink
The CBC ran this bizarrely in-depth article a while ago about the decline of photo booths. Apparently the one in Place-des-Arts station is the last analogue booth left in Quebec and only one of six in all of Canada.
Blork 22:04 on 2020-11-18 Permalink
The original selfies.
Michael Black 22:08 on 2020-11-18 Permalink
But I recall using them for photos for my passes to Expo 67 and Man and his World. I think for some other things.
But student passes for the bus, I can’t remember, but I thought they took the photo.
Now you have to go to a drugstore to get a medicare photo.
Kate 22:19 on 2020-11-18 Permalink
Michael Black, as I recall, you had to get a form from your school, then go to Berri-UQÀM and be photographed. There were long lines and long waits, and then God help you if you lost your pass.
Michael Black 23:16 on 2020-11-18 Permalink
When we went in grade 7, we went as a group. And either we were given the wrong time, or there was a delay because we ended up killing time. But I don’t remember the photo, other than there must have been a reason we had to go down there.
Maybe I got a pass the next year, but that was it. Too much work. I used student tickets until one day a bus driver demanded adult fair. I guess it helped that I rarely used public transit.
JS 23:52 on 2020-11-18 Permalink
At some point about 30+ years ago I started noticing that all the sample pictures on photo booths everywhere in Montreal were of the same people, but not the same pictures. Over the years they would update the machines with new pictures of the same people and from time to time add new people and drop some. This went on until they put in the new-fangled ones that used different models. I was always tempted to call the number on the machines to find out more but never did. For awhile the photobooth in the basement of the Biodome near the lockers had really old pics, but I think they eventually ditched it. Too bad. It was a neat mystery.
Raymond Lutz 10:12 on 2020-11-19 Permalink
Kid, I loved listening with the ear pressed against the booth wall all the gurgling sounds it made during the mechanized photographic development process. Looking at displayed photo strips too was fun…