We recently spent a few days in Switzerland. There weren’t many phone boxes about but here are a couple. Note: check the destination of one of the local buses.
Bern
Bern
Bern
Thun
Thun
Tag Archives: urban
Art and the phone
New York City pay phones to take users back to 1993
The city pay phones are being used to promote a new art exhibit recounting the year 1993 in New York’s history…
Ireland
In 2012 I visited southern Ireland on holiday…
Cobh
Cork
Dublin
Galway
Old phone box style
Florence
I returned to Italy recently to finish my textiles analysis course at the Lisio and had another chance to get a phone with a view.
Payphone design
High-tech payphone concept with free Wi-Fi wins NYC design challenge
The people of New York have spoken. They’ve chosen a spiffy new payphone design with free Wi-Fi access and interactive advertising as the winner of a Reinvent Payphones design challenge…
Cornwall, UK
We just spent a few days over in Cornwall.
Penzance
Sancreed
Gweek
Payphone availability
Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability?
Public payphones seem headed the way of the dinosaur, as noted here on Slashdot 10 years ago, and again by the CBC earlier this year. Reasons typically cited for their demise are falling usage, (thanks to the ubiquitous cell phone), and rising maintenance costs. But during the recent disaster in NYC caused by Hurricane Sandy public payphones proved their worth…
Off topic – sort of
This article isn’t exactly about phone boxes but the first paragraph does indicate how they were once an integral part of life…
How a TARDIS could help police
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