In Jackson, Wyoming, there's a little library inside a British payphone booth

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I will point to both the presence and prominence of Hair Love. Red states are not all red!!!

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I’d just like to place a small pedantic niggle on record.
Being a proper British public phone kiosk

  • it is a kiosk not a booth
  • it is a public phone not a payphone

That is all.

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In deepest, darkest Hampshire

There are many being re-purposed as galleries, libraries and coffee shops.

btw they are phone boxes

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The phone box in the village where I grew up still has a working payphone in! Most of the ones in the surrounding villages are either mini-libraries or house a defibrillator.
Is the one in the OP a reproduction? It looks in much better condition than any I’ve ever seen. Mind you, where I live now, a lot of the phone boxes look like this:

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(the apparant curve is an artefact of the photo, the real one is straight)

Also, they’re definitely called ‘phone boxes’, and they are pay phones.

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