Patti Smith remembers the booth with Robert Mapplethorpe

A memory told by a participant

Smith describes walking from the Chelsea Hotel to Times Square, visiting the Playland Arcade and making strips together. She recalls waiting for the portraits and describes Mapplethorpe using some in drawings or collages. Her account also mentions finding a surviving picture inside an old notebook.

Evidence: First-person account

Treat memory as memory

The post is a valuable first-person source, not a complete inventory of all surviving strips or a current guide to Times Square booths. Keep the publication date separate from the dates of the remembered sessions. Link to Smith’s original account rather than copying its lyrical wording or redistributing the accompanying photographs without permission.