On a recent Saturday afternoon, a group of four giddy young women dressed in miniskirts and baggy pants took turns cramming behind a brown curtain and into an apparatus three decades older than they were.

It was an analog photo booth from the 1970s, enclosed within a wood panel structure and nestled within a suitcase shop on Orchard Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. After they posed — making heart shapes with their hands, sticking out their tongues, putting their arms around one another — the four women huddled by the booth and waited three minutes for a black-and-white photo strip to develop.

They had arrived in the city hours earlier on a Peter Pan bus from Philadelphia, where they are seniors at the University of Pennsylvania. The photo booth was their main destination.

“I know all the cute photo spots,” said Tracy Zhang, 21, whose friends credited her with scouting the location. A line of about a dozen people trailed behind them.

Old Friend Photobooth, as a sign affixed to the front identifies it, is owned and operated by Zoë Lazerson and Brandon Minton. In June, they introduced the street-accessible photo booth to New York City, where analog photo booths had previously only been inside bars and businesses, according to a website that tracks photo booths around the world.