50 Public Phone Booths around the World: Design Frozen in Time
Phone booths and payphones: they’re there, gathering dust and grafitti on every street corner, but you probably don’t notice them any more. Take a closer look, though, and you’ll discover ‘em in an astonishing array of styles and unusual settings across the world.
What was once essential to any public place has become a retro curiosity, its design a frozen-in-time reminder of the recent and not-so-recent past. See our favourite 50 public phone booths around the world below for a peek at what’s still out there…
1. Ashburn, Ontario, Canada
2. Sri Lanka
3. Coney Island, New York City, USA
4. Hoh Rainforest, Washington, USA
5. Quebec, Canada
6. Hanoi Airport, Vietnam
7. Ilha Grande, Rio, Brazil
8. Mayreau, Grenadines, Caribbean
9. Pripyat near Chernobyl, Ukraine
10. Seligman, Arizona, USA
11. Johnson Farm Museum, Washington, USA
12. Seoul, South Korea
13. Marina Cay, Virgin Islands
14. Beijing, China
15. Helsinki, Finland
16. Greenwich Village, New York, USA
17. Moosburg, Bavaria, Germany
18. Warsaw, Poland
19. Boucan Canot, Reunion Island
20. Jeju, South Korea
21. Wynn, Las Vegas, USA
22. Paris, France
23. Neuchatel, Switzerland
24. Amsterdam, Netherlands
25. Shenzhen, China
26. Vancouver, Canada
27. New York, USA
28. Power Station, Belchatow, Poland
29. South Island, New Zealand
30. Cape May, New Jersey, USA
31. Zurich, Switzerland
32. Rhyolite, Nevada
33. Vancouver, Canada
34. Chinatown, San Francisco, USA
35. Gori, Georgia
36. Ghost village of Tyneham, Dorset, UK
37. St Honorat Island Monastery, France
38. Portofino, Italy
39. Chester, New Hampshire, USA
40. Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic
41. Club33, Disneyland, California, USA
42. Tbilisi, Georgia
43. Plaka, Athens, Greece
44. Rome, Italy
45. Feock, Cornwall, UK
46. Lima, Peru
47. Niederösterreich, Austria
48. Co. Mayo, Ireland
49. Kumla, Orebro, Sweden
50. Sredets, Sofia, Bulgaria
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June 11, 2011 @ 4:30 pm
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Isabel Said,
June 16, 2011 @ 9:15 am
Hi Earl – which one is your picture? All pictures were sourced from Flickr under the Creative Commons with Commercial Use licence, and we’ve credited all photo sources with links for each photo at the bottom of the post.
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