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Selfie WRLD Jax franchise owners Asa and Priscilla Maass in the Orange You Happy booth, one of 20 at their 11112 San Jose Blvd. business. From left, Meghan Matson, Shawn Grey, William O and Lexie Grey start a double date at Selfie Photography.
Selfie Photography co-owner Brittney Pitts poses in one of her booths. She started the 4070 Herschel St. business with high school friend Katelyn Griffith.
For $20 an hour, these new Jacksonville businesses offer a venue to up your self-portrait game. BY DAN MACDONALD CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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ad the inventors of the smartphone known how the devices would most often be used, they probably would have called it “the selfie.” Smartphones are a communications device, but these days instead of verbal messages, they often are used to create visual remembrances shared on social media.
Now, even the selfie is evolving from a spur-of-the-moment self-portrait into a planned event. Selfie photo studios are now a thing in Jacksonville. Both Selfie WRLD Jax and Selfie Photography work on the same premise. Customers rent time and take pictures in elaborately decorated booths and rooms that provide a backdrop for self-expresSEE SELFIES, PAGE 2
Bread & Board and Provisions open Downtown The Bread & Board and its Provisions marketplace opened Aug. 19 at Bay and Laura streets Downtown, bringing a restaurant, coffee shop, doughnuts, beer, flowers and more to the VyStar Credit Union campus. Bread & Board co-founder Jonathan Cobbs joined owners and workers Aug. 19 as they set up the restaurant and marketplace for a soft opening at 100 W. Bay St. “We’re going to open up the doors for people, let them try a few things as we get used to our kitchen,” Cobbs said. “It’s actually two years in the making.”
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