Tag Archives: USA
Watching the Box
FB posts
Here are few more themed Facebook posts:
Fight scene
‘The Continental’, set in the John Wick universe, has a great fight scene in a phone box. Enjoy.
More entertainment
A scene from the recent production of Guys and Dolls at the Bridge Theatre, London. Here is Daniel Mays as Nathan Detroit.
Recent travels
Starts with a call
Phone boxes still get a mention in one way or another in the press. Here is a lovely example of a love story that started with a call from a public phone.
TV moments
USA holiday
I recently went to Colorado, Utah and Wyoming for a couple of weeks holiday. I noticed that there are not a lot of phone boxes around. In Denver, the only one in the street I came across was an iconic British red box – outside a British pub of course. Inside was something even closer to my heat – a phone box full of whisky!
Molly Brown’s house had a phone, which in 1910 would have been rare, but it seems that was a replica. There were, unexpectedly, phone boxes inside the Denver Capitol building, although I don’t know if they still work. Apart from the airport, which appear to be next generation what with having screens attached, the only other phone we came across was ouside the Blanding visitor centre.
The box in the arts
More of the same
Yes more phone boxes on tv. This first one is America’s Game…The Wheel of Fortune. We’ve just started watching this and there was no explanation of the set. I’m not sure if it’s a regular thing but on this episode they appear to being trying to set an English scene. There is naturally a phone box but what’s this about the word ‘Metro’ being imposed on an Underground logo? A little reserach on the topic wouldn’t go amiss 🙂
