[1] There are newspaper articles dating back to at least the early 1900s advertising upcoming kissing booths and their "osculatory favors".
[2] A 1918 article from The Garden Island newspaper states, "All the horors [sic] of war disappears for the man with a roll of bills at the Red Cross kissing booth -- that is 'till his wife sees him.
"[3] At a national convention of the American Library Association in Dallas in 1971, LGBT equality campaigner Barbara Gittings staffed a kissing booth underneath the banner "Hug a Homosexual," with a "women only" side and a "men only" side.
[4][5] When no one took advantage of it, she and Alma Routsong kissed in front of rolling television cameras.
"[6] American musician Marnie Stern ran a kissing booth at some of her concerts in 2008.