There’s one on route 6 in Seekonk, MA. It’s on the edge of a parking lot of a little and I suspect crappy motel, in a small patch of weeds and trash. I don’t have any idea if it works. As I drove past it the other day I said to it, “Poor little phone booth, someone forgot to take you down.”
I live in a suburb of Montreal. There is one by a bus stop. Not only is it a real booth, but it is British Telecom booth (or facsimile thereof) with a crown that says ER II on it.
The ticket booth in the nearby train station has two, count 'em, pay phones. I can’t imagine why since they were put in in the last year. One yes, but two?
AFAIK, every train station, bus terminal and airport still has payphones. But the only actual booth I’ve seen is the one mentioned above.
Here’s an article (w/ pic) in WaPo from 2007 detailing the last phone booth in the DC area.
Aww. It’s gone.
Here’s one in front of the Canadian Tire store on Dundas St W in Etobicoke. I used to duck into it if it rained while I was waiting for the bus.
They still have phone booths (well, stalls anyway) in Korea. I never see anybody use them, though.
Kirby Drive in Houston had some red English-style phone booths as late as 2003. I know because I had to use one once. Have no idea if they’re still there, though.
There is one in Northport, WA (pop. around 400) on Hwy 25. We just got decent cell service about two years ago (but at least two of the big carriers phones still won’t work until you are at least 30 miles south of here).
It has a newfangled pay phone in it (digital display, takes debit cards) but the booth itself is probably 50’s vintage.
Huh. I find that older Japanese shows seem to assume all kids have cell phones before they were popular over here. And I’ve always heard that innovations often happen in the teen female market over there before they happen here.
And I’ve never seen an actual phone booth, just some pay phones just outside stores. Sometimes they get a bit of an enclosure around the phone itself, to make it stand out from the wall, but nothing you can actually enter.
There seemed to be a lot of retro and retro-future chique going on then. They really seemed to be celebrating the 80s (especially in that diner).
No, he’s from the past, but since he used his time machine to come here, he also apparently used it to go to the future as well.
Pittsburgh has some but more likely is a bank of phones in a building such as you find near the food court of 5th Avenue Place.
Can’t remember the last phone booth, but most casinos in Las Vegas have a row of phone banks (with vending machines with calling cards nearby). I rarely see anyone use them, but they are there. My guess is they are mostly used for foreign calls by people who may not have a cell phone that allows them to call their home country, but that is just my WAG.
It’s just been reported in today’s Times that 10% of UK phone booths only have one call a month made from them. Hence the wholesale withdrawal of them.
The Last Phone Booths in New York City, from about a year ago:
**The Last Phone Booth In New York City | Scouting NY
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It’s been a few years since I was in Vegas, but this was the first thing I thought of when I when I read the OP. I remember using them a few times to call home before I had gotten a cell phone (about ten years ago) and at least once after I got my cell phone I used on the booths to get away from the casino noise while I was making a call on my cell phone.
Wow! Thanks-phone booths have vanished from Boston-I haven’t seen one in years.
I always remember the phone booth in my grandfather’s restaurant-it had wood and glass panel doors, and a blower that turned on when you shut the door.
Its kinds nice that you could have a private conversation-I don’t like speaking to someone in a crowded place (on a cellphone).
When are phonebooks going to disappear? Nobody seems to use them anymore.
My impression is that every little village in Britain has one. I remember travelling through the Yorkshire dales where they really are needed because of the bad (or rather non-existent) reception on mobiles.
There are still a fair number in Canada. They’re dwindling, and in a lot of places they’ve either been removed altogether or replaced with the little stand variety, but there are still some. Also the elimination of pay phones is not going as quickly as it seems to be in the US; you can usually still find one pretty quickly – every metro station has several, for instance.
Lots over here. Good luck finding one not out of order!
Yeah but the cost of using one is going through the roof. I used one a couple of months ago (my cell was drained) and it cost 50 cents.
I used one a couple of weeks ago (I should really get a car charger) and the cost was $1.00! I only had a toonie on me; it didn’t give change! So a 30 second local call home cost me two bucks!
Our vet installed a phone booth in the waiting room. It doesn’t work, but you use it as a quiet place to talk on your cell phone!