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These were taken in October of 2005 on our honeymoon.
Phone box upgrades in NYC
Giant Touchscreens Coming To NYC Phone Booths
The public pay phone of the future looks like a gigantic iPad. The city plans to unveil 32-inch “smart screens” with Internet connections next month inside 250 old phone booths throughout the five boroughs…
Phone box installations
I’m obviously not the only one to see the phone box as an intrical part of social life. I love these art insallations discussed in an article on Weburbanist:
Walky Talky: 12 Concept Mobile Phone Telephone Booths
“These 12 concept mobile phone telephone booths attempt to recapture the personal isolation those old public phones provided while enhancing the experience of conversing in the city.”
Photo: Weburbanist
For the full article go to Weburbannist – https://weburbanist.com/2012/04/08/walky-talky-12-concept-mobile-phone-telephone-booths/
Copenhagen
We spent the weekend in Copenhagen. There were very few phone boxes around which surprised me a little.
Online not phone line
I knew this blog would have to be dragged into the new millennium at some point. Today is the day. We took Couscous out for a walk at Allhallows, on the Thames just up from Gravesend. Instead of a ‘Phone’ box there was an ‘Internet’ box.
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