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   FUNG1 said, 6 months ago

   ’an it cost ya a whole nickel to call someone who cares!!
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   masterskrain said, 6 months ago

   I wonder how many people will read this today, and ask; “What’s a Phone Booth”?
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   Mary McDaniel said, 6 months ago

   I think the ‘phone booth’ phrase was the ‘no longer cool’ part.
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   Mary McDaniel said, 6 months ago

   Is that car so small that the seat belts don’t reach over their shoulder?
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   Dave Marsden said, 6 months ago

   Phone WHAT?
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   ellisaana said, 6 months ago

   Ah, phone booths:
   When I was an auto appraiser, before we were issued cellphones, we had to use cellphones to call in to the office. Finding one that worked was a challenge, and then it was just slightly better than stepping into a public porta-potty: drunks used them as urinals, homeless souls slept and sometimes died in them.
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   octagon said, 6 months ago

   The lobby outside the “Windows on the World” restaurant atop the north tower of the World Trade Center had great glass phone booths.
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   hippogriff said, 6 months ago

   octagon: And the south tower (18th floor) had a mosque. I wonder what the furor over that replacement a couple blocks away was? Bigotry?
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 6 months ago

   Most people don’t need phone booths which was just for privacy originally. Saved Tippy Hendren from the Birds.
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    masterskrain said, 6 months ago

    And without Phone Booths, where would Superman have changed from Clark Kent?
    Loved the gag in the original Christopher Reeve Superman movie where he is looking for a place to change to save Lois as she is hanging from the crashed helicopter.
    He runs up to the phone …and it’s one of those little shells that just surrounds your shoulders enough to cut down on the noise level.
    A GREAT skewering of a Superman Tradition!
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