As a former librarian I warm to this story.
Phone box library closure threat angers residents
Book lovers who turned a red phone box into a makeshift library are angry after BT threatened to shut it down due to health and safety fears…
I work/volunteer at the British Museum. Out the front are a few phone boxes and often there will be tourists standing in the open door of the booth getting their photos taken. I don’t know if the phones in the booth work but I think the iconic nature of the boxes is of far more value that the functionality, specifically in a popular tourist location.
Here is a celebrity getting her photo in a phone booth. It works for everyone I guess…
A photo taken at Swan Park, Buncrana, County Donegal, Eire (courtesy of Fortean Times, Christmas 2014, p.69):
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple
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X-Files, John Doe
The Intruders
The Intruders
Toast of London (after losing his mobile at an audition)
As in the 1953 film starring Marilyn Monroe… There are a few telephone calls made in this film and here are three, including a phone on a boat.
If I had a phone of the year competition this would be the winner:
Fujiya Hotel, Hakone
Others from our recent holiday to Japan:
Enoshima, Buddhist temple
Enoshima
Kamakura
On the shinkansen back to Tokyo
Tokyo
Tokyo
Tokyo
Ok so I understand why I see phone boxes in older tv shows and films, but they are still a feature in many current plots such as The Blacklist (USA), The Code (Australia) and Being Human (USA). You’d be forgiven for thinking that the popularity of the mobile phone would mean that the phone box would disappear from many cultural products, but not so.
The Blacklist (S2)
The Code
Being Human (USA, S3)
The X-Files - The Amazing Maleeni
The X-Files - Trevor
The X-Files - Roadrunners
The X-Files - Surekill
