Funny back in the day of public phones, no one wore a mask or wiped down the receiver, well maybe a few Karens did,
To: DallasBiff
Not really "booths"; more akin to a phone "station".
I remember the old "booths"... I'd rather use one than a cell phone... except where someone took a dump in it, or puked in it.
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2 posted on
09/04/2023 11:24:28 AM PDT by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: DallasBiff
Miami, 1984
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To: DallasBiff
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I'd like to have one of the old Brit phonebooths. The double decker would be fun, too, but too hard to restore.
5 posted on
09/04/2023 11:29:50 AM PDT by
Fido969
(45 is Superman! )
To: DallasBiff
Why weren’t the phone booths repurposed to shelter the houseless people sleeping on the street? (Just lay the booths down.) :)
7 posted on
09/04/2023 11:59:06 AM PDT by
Jyotishi
(Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
To: DallasBiff
In the old days phone booths in public places worked great—everywhere except New York City.
Those phone booths were almost always vandalized and the phones got no dial tone.
25 posted on
09/04/2023 2:46:24 PM PDT by
cgbg
("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
To: DallasBiff
As a former sales rep who often used public phones, I’ll never forget the stench of urine in a phone booth in the dead of summer. If you were in a place where you had to close the door because of the noise….
26 posted on
09/04/2023 3:13:28 PM PDT by
yelostar
(Spook codes 33 and 13. See them often in headlines and news stories. )
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