News RIP Phone booth

[Urwumpe]

The last public (yellow) phone booth was uninstalled today on a peninsula in southern Bavaria.



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Can anybody still remember how it was like before the mobile phone? And how is it in other countries? When did your phone booths disappear?

 

[Artlav]

...a while ago. I honestly can't remember when was the last time i saw a phone booth.

A public phone i saw about 5 years ago, in the middle of my old village. Not far from a cell tower, ironically enough.

Another memory this brings back is spending evenings sitting on the fence looking at the road in the distance, wondering whether my parents would visit today, the next day or next week. The nearest phone was in the city 15 km away.

The world was small and was not inside out back then.

 

[Notebook]

Not as many as there were. Mostly gone from rural areas. British Telecom judge it financially, though if there are sufficient protest they have reinstated them.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=k...U8Q9QEwCXoECAcQFg#imgrc=Ni14xvpTYtfXbM:&vet=1

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[llarian]

In Canada I haven't seen any in quite a while, though strangely enough, there is a payphone on a sublevel in the place I work. Never gets used, though.

 

[Lucy]

Not as many as there were. Mostly gone from rural areas. British Telecom judge it financially, though if there are sufficient protest they have reinstated them.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=k...U8Q9QEwCXoECAcQFg#imgrc=Ni14xvpTYtfXbM:&vet=1

N.

About ten years ago, I moved from Southport, where there were at the time still several of the more iconic old-style red type, more commonly even at that point used as a public convenience than a means of communication.


Now, I think only the ones by the town hall survive. The rest are either gone, or they've been replaced by the skinny shroud-only "please don't piddle or take drugs in me" static phone, but there are substantially fewer of those.

 

[jedidia]

We still have some public phones at some bus stations, because they were not installed in a dedicated booth that take up space, so nobody felt the need to remove them yet. No idea if they'd still work, though...

But yes, I remember how it was... Cursing at a phone booth at 2 o'clock in the morning because you missed the last bus and found you had no change for the darn thing! :lol:

I also remember the first time I arrived in Bosnia. The guy supposed to pick me up at the bus station was over an hour late, so I sat around somewhat forlorn, a stranger in a strange land, trying to explain to people that spoke a strange language that I needed some change for the phone booth.