Some more from the USA, but this time going back even longer to when I was using film. Note the last one, starring Neil Van Vuuren, and with Gillian Anderson on the side of the box!
Albuquerque
East Village, New York
New York
New York
Catching up
Some from our trip to the USA, which was ages ago…
Hawaii
Hawaii
Hornitos
Mariposa
Rhyolite
Cotswolds
Here’s a recent one from our little jaunt to the Cotswolds. This was opposite our B&B in Crudwell.
Crudwell
San Francisco
My first reader’s contribution. Thanks Ian.
“Here is my picture of a San Francisco phone booth! While walking by I found it strangely compelling – with it’s shiny case and slot for quarters, so I took a pic. I had just seen the movie “Bullitt”, with Steve McQueen, where the hero makes many phone calls in exactly this type of phone booth…This particular phone was located in the Serramonte Shopping Mall, Daly City, South San Francisco on 28th Dec 2010. I was out shopping for lego :-)”
Ian Castleton
Morocco
I tried to find one from the remaining collection that has snow in it, to go with the current feel outside. No luck. Here are a couple to give me warm thoughts (much needed right now) instead:
Casablanca
Tinerhir
Tinehir
Morocco
Isle of Wight
We recently visited the IoW where there is a funky model village in the town of Godshill. Of corse it has it’s own communications…
Godshill
UK
Here are a couple from Kent in the UK:
Rochester
Ramsgate
Germany & France
This phone is by the park where the Oktoberfest is held.
Munich
This next one is actually a town that was once in Germany. We visited with a friend when there was a Christmas market on.
Kayserberg
San Francisco
Haight Ashbury
By the Port
Design aspects
In my artefacts lecture today we had a visit from Bill Sillar. He enlightened us on the origins for the design of the red UK phone box (among many other things). Giles Gilbert Scott based it on the John Soane Mausoleum in St Pancras Old Churchyard.
Soane Mausoleum
source: UCL Dept Earth Sciences
As a class we recently visited LARC where the original architectual model for the red phone box is kept. It’s about 1 metre in height. Annoyingly I didn’t take a camera.