Some of you may recognize this coin-operated curiosity: It’s called a phone booth.
Phone booths used to be everywhere, providing an office for agent Maxwell Smart … and a sanctuary for Tippi Hedren from killer seagulls in “The Birds.”
Now, they’re so rare that Peter Ackerman wrote a children’s book, “The Lonely Phone Booth,” about one of only four remaining outdoor phone booths in all of Manhattan.
“I walked past this phone booth every day with my kid when he was three years old,” Ackerman said. “And at a certain point, he said to me, ‘Why is that phone in a box?’ And I realized that he didn’t know what a phone booth was, which is so bizarre!”
Does the world also no longer need Superman?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by deadstick on Wednesday March 29 2017, @12:54PM
Wow, memory trigger. When I saw the Superman movie in 1978, my local movie palace had decorated the lobby with a phone booth, with some discarded clothing in it.
Somebody stealthily added a pair of pantyhose.