[DallasBiff]

Funny back in the day of public phones, no one wore a mask or wiped down the receiver, well maybe a few Karens did,

[Carriage Hill]

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.

[The people have spoken]

Miami, 1984

[Fido969]

I'd like to have one of the old Brit phonebooths. The double decker would be fun, too, but too hard to restore.

[Jyotishi]

Why weren’t the phone booths repurposed to shelter the houseless people sleeping on the street? (Just lay the booths down.) :)

[cgbg]

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.

[yelostar]

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….