When Dominique Manning gets her picture taken, she likes to review the results immediately. Last Friday, she had to wait three-and-a-half minutes.

The 26-year-old from Philly was in town for a concert, but made a point of stopping at Autophoto , a museum dedicated to photo booths that has attracted lines around the block since it opened on Oct. 11.

A few poses and $8 later, the 20th-century Photo-Me Model 21 emitted a whirring sound, and a strip of four photos fell out of its delivery slot.

“Whoa, it’s like, hot!” Manning said. “It looks great, I love it. As a person of color, with film, you never know what you’re going to look like, but I like it. You can see my face.”

Autophoto’s founder, Bre Conley Saxon, stood beaming a few feet away.

“We took a gamble that people would care, an

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