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Subject: [Leica] The Last Phone Booth in Fort Wayne
From: Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie)
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 09:45:40 +0000
References: <CB7F2C72.F957%chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com>

The few public phones left around here are either in the old red cast iron 
"phone boxes" or newer stainless steel and glass ones. There are not many 
left. We never had anything like the phones on posts which I see on American 
films over here.
FD

On 9 Mar, 2012, at 08:42, Chris Crawford wrote:

> Cell phones have hurt pay phones in general, but phone booths that you
> walk inside, like in my photo, became rare 20 yrs ago. Pay phones since
> then have mostly just hung on posts outside or on walls in buildings, with
> no privacy, unlike the old fashioned phone booths.
> 
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> On 3/9/12 3:12 AM, "Frank Dernie" <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
>> But probably not as big a factor as their redundancy due to the
>> proliferation of cheap mobiles?
>> FD
>> 
>> On 8 Mar, 2012, at 22:49, afirkin at afirkin.com wrote:
>> 
>>> I think vandals are a big factor in their
>>> demise.
>> 
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