Musicians and singers shouldn't be the only ones having fun with recordings and for a dime or two, children of all ages were able to put their voice to record  starting in the 1940s. Recording booths started popping up in penny arcades, fairs and tourist attractions, beckoning aspiring songbirds with their cheap and easy technology.

The most popular of these booths was the Voice-O-Graph that allowed the user to record a short, two-minute message--or song, or speech--onto a six-inch cardboard record. The result could then be taken home and listened to over and over again.

Such booths were magnets for wannabe singers and kids with pocket change to spare. They could be found at many amusement parks, on boardwalks and even on th 86th floor of the Empire State Building where visitors could record their own audio-souvenir.

Recording booths fell out of favor in the late 60s when portable cassette players and recorders were becoming commonplace.