This photo got a lot of play on my Facebook page last weekend.
Phone booths and pay phones used to be commonplace in cities and rural communities across the country. Today they’re such a rare sight I usually stop and take note when one presents itself. I actually wrote about pay phones on another occasion.
This little beauty is close to an old Masonic Hall turned community building and a cute little dairy bar in Frankfort, Ohio.
It’s another of those things that I photograph largely because they are being lost to time and progress. I wrote a little about that recently and about making pictures that depict all of the scene and not just the pretty part.
Read that here if you missed it.
It’s a weird thing to get excited about but it’s a sort of comfort that such a thing still exists.
Was it a working pay phone?
Yes! It had a dial tone. 🙂
That’s a pretty rare thing these days – I can’t remember when I last saw one. I can understand it guess but it’s another bit of our past that’s gone forever.
It makes perfect sense that they’re so rare. Yet, cell service isn’t guaranteed in many rural areas so they’re still necessary for a lot of folks.
I agree, it think it’s a shame that we’ve lost so many because they can be really useful.
We also forget that not everyone has a cell phone. Some people still view it as a luxury they simply cannot afford.
This is true actually – it’s so much the norm these days that we forget that.
It’s easy to forget when the worry is not yours.
Very True!
Indeed a rare thing to see! 🙂
It is and it made my heart happy to find it! It’s the little things that truly make us happy. Lol.
Exactly!
How do you use it? Lol
Lol. Do you remember quarters? You put one of those in and dial the phone. But then you have to stand right there and talk! No moving around! 🙂
Haha yes I do I was only joking – your post brought back those memories
Lol. I was being sarcastic. 😉
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Glad to bring back some memories!
I thought these were all gone. I remember the last time using one was sometime around 2000 in Ely, MN. It was out there all by itself on the side of the road.
I find them occasionally and always snap a picture. There are a few in my area including one in a small tourist town where cell reception is poor and in another town where there’s a regional jail. I just saw one this weekend at a Pennsylvania rest area. That was a surprise and yet it did make sense.