Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/07/27/red-phone-boxes-in-yorkshire-m.html
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Some are used as time machines!
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Assuming that not all of the phone boxes must stay in place, a box (with appropriate interior modifications) could be repurposed as a shower stall. I think that could work.
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99% are also urinals.
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No glory holes?
Right, too many windows. Never mind.
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One of those would be useful so you could fit a full size library inside a phone box. As a bonus, if the book you want is out, you can just jump forward in time to when it is due to be returned.
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Growing up in England I lived opposite a phone box. It was frequently vandalized, and a sport for local yobs (as they were known) was to try to kick out the windows with their Doc Marten boots, and see how high they could get.
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There are thousands of disused ones now in reclamation yards and scrap heaps. Grab yourself one.
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i love them, and i think reusing them is fantastic, but where does the guy who made one into a coffee shop wash his hands? i mean, there’s a global pandemic going on, for starters, let alone just basic food service hygiene…
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The ones I’ve seen were mainly used as advertising space for call girl flyers.
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I used to collect those flyers when I lived in London in the late '80s/early '90s.
I’m sorry I didn’t keep them. I still have the monthly Scala Cinema calendar posters from those times.
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Yes, nothing like the scent of a sun-powered garish lavenders tier down in the time works really whacking you in the face as you find a blind corner for a casual sit-down Yorkshire wee. And when you get up a sprig pops into your hands to freshen up with.
How did he order water service for the espresso machine? Tinier bottles he walks in every morn? A Springwater Faery? Betcha he has a giant color FAX in for orders.
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TIL about Inspector Spacetime. Thanks!
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Damn it! You beat me to it!
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Well, at least one of them made it as far as Vancouver BC in the 1970s. It was outside a bar on Denman St., and with the door closed it was very quiet inside. A good place to call a young woman from (as I was a young man then ): “You’re not outside that bar on Denman are you?” “Of course not! This is the payphone in the library!”
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there’s a heavily Italian-themed pizzeria in Atlanta with one out front.
Pizzeria Napolitano. Italian tricolors hanging in front. Italian music pumped into the street. Red English phone box next to the front door.
still says “telephone.”
not “telephono”.
“telephone.”
I guess “east of the Atlantic, above Africa, west of the Urals” is close enough to Italy for Americans?
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Smartphones have relegated iconic red British telephone boxes to things of the past…
Not really. They were largely superceded in the mid 1980s, well before mobile phones, never mind smartphones. It’s their successor which was made redundant by mobiles.
Many red boxes were kept in significant/picturesque locations (wiki says 8,000 are still in use) but they haven’t been a routine sight for a long time.
Apparently that’s quite common!
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