There’s a pizzeria in Sayville,NY that has an old wooden booth. I actually used it not too long ago because my cell phone ran out of power.
I have often thought that recycled old phone booths would be very useful in loud bars.
You could add one as an advertised amenity and you would have people lined up to use it especially here in Athens, GA.
3 minutes if someone else is waiting.
That is the custom around here. Or was the custom.
What do y’all think?
I think the OP was asking when did phone booths disappear. That did happen much earlier. There is actually one (an old British phone booth complete with royal crown) less than a half mile from where I am sitting, but that is a relic, although I think it still has a working pay phone inside it. The first Superman movie featured a scene in which Clark Kent looks for a booth to change to his Superman outfit and can find only one of those open 3/4 cages.
There are still some pay phones (at airports and hotel lobbies, for example), but they are rapidly disappearing from most places. In NYC in the early 90s there were lots of pay phones around, but most of them didn’t work. Now they are mostly gone.
I never understood the origins of the Superman thing. Not the gag in the Superman movie, but the concept of changing in a phone booth. All the ones I remember from childhood were glass on all sides, and had a (for a kid) hard to open/close slidy glass door. Were old-timey phone booths opaque? I don’t get it. A big, clear public box isn’t the wisest choice for a quick change.
Oh, and what did he do with his Clark Kent clothes/glasses when he was flitting around the countryside?
And you’d make money selling ad space inside them.
Last I checked, the Read House Hotel in Chattanooga has them.
Indoor phone booths are (here at any rate) normally the property of the premises’ tenant, who can set whatever tariff he likes on the calls (which is why calls from the booth in the street were usually cheaper). Obviously he’s only going to go on renting the line if it makes a profit - and most these days will run at a loss.
The indoor phone booths I mentioned in Post #13 were opaque, being made of wood. There was a relatively small window in the wooden folding door, and you wouldn’t really notice a person inside if the light were turned off.
He used his super-strength to compress the clothes thin enough to fit in a little pocket in his cape. The glasses were put there too, and were indestructible, being made of clear non-corrective glass from his rocket ship that brought him to Earth. (The first conventional specs he wore melted when he used his heat vision.)
Yes, I read DC comics extensively when I was a kid. 
I knew someone would pick up on this apparent “WTF?” which has been asked and answered in the’60’s funnybooks.
The cliche about Superman changing in a phone booth dates back to when the walls were opaque. At least that’s the answer that was given.
There was a mid-60’s Action or Superman issue with Allen Funt catching Clark Kent changing into Supie in a phone booth. While the cover implies that exposing his secret ID was Funt’s intent, the story led up to an accidental revelation while Funt was up to his usual pranks on folks. There was a line something like *<<Now you are about to see one really confused reporter!>> * Also when writing this cute little story they used the artistic license of portraying *Candid Camera *as showing at least some of the pranks live. They never did this, because people would have to sign releases in order to have their candid films put on TV. Actually, if things kept on the way the story was going, CK would gave had his secret out anyway, but of course it was much more dramatic to show the danger of the revelation happening live on national TV.
In case you are wondering why the change was made in a phone booth as late as the '60’s, the phone booth was in a museum or somesuch. So, yes, it was opaque and the door was opened on Clark.
That leaves one question I’m sure some of you are wondering…