Does anybody keep track of this?
Last year, there were apparently still 1.9 million left but they’re disappearing fast.
and that’s only 1.9 million plain pay phones, if i understood the article correctly
Yup, there’d be less. 
Last week I was in a motel/conference center place and wanted a pay phone. Found the phone place and there were nothing but empty holes in the wall!
The manager said so many people have cell phones that the pay phones had turned into a money loser and they had them removed.
I had to borrow a friend’s cell phone to make my call.
So, what in the hell is Superman supposed to do now?
Betcha super-speed comes in real handy. 
I wonder how long it will be before the term “phone booth” produces only puzzled looks from children. Sort of like “record album” does now.
thats odd, there seems to be more phone boths around here. i had no idea they were disapparing.
Could the OP say whether they meant just any pay phone, or a real “booth”? AFAIK Superman’s been out of luck already, for the past 15 or 20 years, what with real booths being replaced by simple freestanding pay phones on posts.
I bet he was lying. They lose money because too many people have discovered how much cheaper it is to use your own long distance carrier from a payphone than to use the hotel’s bloated rate. They may not make as much as they used to, but I strongly doubt they were losing money. At least one could have been left.
I was really more interested in actual phone booths. You can see that regular pay phones are disappearing, but I would like to know if anybody keeps track of or is interested in the old kind of phone booths.
Ha!..or my 12 year old niece being amazed that Paul McCartney used to be in a ‘boy band’.
Although they were later… i’ll bet you’d draw more confused looks asking them what an 8-track is…