I’m sure I woke yesterday to the news that the UK phone box design had won an award but I couldn’t find a recent story – this link is older news but still relevant
Design Museum adds red phone box to collection
And some more phones on tv…
Arrow
Fortitude
Bones (S2 I think)
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…
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
When was the last time you used a payphone? For New Yorkers, the answer is probably one they can’t remember, so the city today announced it will replace those payphones with up to 10,000 new kiosks armed with free gigabit Wi-Fi…
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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…
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