I thought they were already all gone, but I guess I put too much stock into the opening of 2002's Phone Booth
Last call for the phone booth?
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Re: Last call for the phone booth?
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
If everyone has a phone can't you just ask another person to borrow theirs or make a call for help in an emergency?
Now that you say that I feel like cell phones now need to have a "guest mode" web browser, maps and phone, but everything else walled off
On recent android versions you can allow calling from the lock screen. So just lock your phone and switch to the dialer before handing it over.
Re: Last call for the phone booth?
#53Here in the UK the red phone booths are such a cultural symbol that they tend to stay around, but it's rare to see one with a phone inside. Villages get creative in finding uses for their phone both. I have seem them used as a mini-library or housing a defibrillator.
Not all phone boxes in the UK are red. In Hull and the surrounding area they are cream-coloured, they are run by the local phone outfit Kcom. Their use for making calls is declining just like everywhere else.
Re: Last call for the phone booth?
#54Here in the UK the red phone booths are such a cultural symbol that they tend to stay around, but it's rare to see one with a phone inside. Villages get creative in finding uses for their phone both. I have seem them used as a mini-library or housing a defibrillator.
Not all phone boxes in the UK are red. In Hull and the surrounding area they are cream-coloured, they are run by the local phone outfit Kcom. Their use for making calls is declining just like everywhere else.
Re: Last call for the phone booth?
#55Can't help but be reminded of The Adventures of Pete & Pete - The Call. All revolves around a payphone out in the middle of nowhere.
> revolves around a payphone out in the middle of nowhere It was a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_phone_booth
The President's Analyst seems so prophetic.
Re: Last call for the phone booth?
#56End of an era. I used to love looking up numbers via the Payphone Project[1] and just talking to randoms.
Re: Last call for the phone booth?
#57I was homeless for about a month. Literally on the streets. There were a few payphones nearby, which worked.
Wouldn't have been able to contact anyone otherwise, at least to talk. Luckily the library nearby let use a pass for an hour's internet access each day, which I mainly used to contact people and find services and such.
Would be a shame to have them go fully extinct. Just like it would be a shame if all water fountains suddenly disappeared too. I wouldn't have made it out of that situation without them both.