End of an era…NYC just removed the last working pay phone booth in the entire city from Times Square pic.twitter.com/ZFeCdlT5LM
— Wu-Tang Is For The Children (@WUTangKids) May 23, 2022
Yesterday.
Times Square, New York, New York, USA.
Mmmf.
Meanwhile….
this is sad ..LAND LINES will become very important in the future ,,when communications are compromised https://t.co/7NO8Ygoqz5
— Henry Winkler (@hwinkler4real) May 23, 2022
Unhappy days.
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Where will boxing barbie make his threatening phone calls from now?
Where will Superman change his clothes?
where will the addicts go for a poo?
What would P O’Neill have done ?
It is amazing how it dates movies – like seeing the Twin Towers in the background of a NYC skyline
Fonzie, a man once famous for his use of digital communication… giving this the thumbs down.
When asked for a comment, replied,
“aaay! Let your fingers do the talking…”
What does Henry Winkler know that we dont?
I want to buy one for my pub so I can use it as a bit of a feature
These will be worth a fortune in years
Like the old red UK phone booths
I feel like if you had ten landlines I still won’t get a drink dave
I was thinking in the lines of using them for a computer for comments from customers and the booths put in the jacks
Still trying to spot you outside the pub and cannot see you
The Guardian recently ran a decent feature on UK phone boxes and why they still matter. It’s well worth a read.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/28/last-phone-boxes-bt-payphones-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
…seal the escape hatches.
The Matrix end scene-Neo’s phone call to the machines.
https://youtu.be/yyrhikYaRrk
Who cares.