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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?
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Frankfort, Kentucky, makes it against the law to shoot off a policeman's tie.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 29 2017, @06:25AM (1 child)
I am surprised that by now, there are any surviving phone booths.
Even cellphones are considered a throwaway item now.
In my area, all public phone booths seem to do is attract a destructive and dangerous clientele who either vandalize the area or deal drugs.
It served its purpose well, thirty years ago. As far as I am concerned, they are magnets for troublemakers.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Entropy on Wednesday March 29 2017, @08:19AM
Drug deals serve a public service...