Something that I, and most readers will, remember being everywhere while growing up, but with the rise of the mobile phone, is likely to all but disappear over the next little while… I have to say I found it surprising that they are as you as this, I would have expected them to have been around much longer than 65 years…
From the Windsor Daily Star – November 14, 1946
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Little Gwendolyn Rousseau, three-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Rousseau, 3324 Baby street, wonders if it is a
doll’s house they’ve put up near her home. But it isn’t. It is
one of the new public telephone booths the (sic) Bell is putting out-
doors at various locations, this one being at Mill and Peter streets.
Of course, the boys who were overseas will call them
kiosks as they do in England.
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There’s still a pay phone (without a booth) at Mill and Peter. I wonder if it’s the same corner.
There are a few around but not many. Now it costs 50 cents to make a call and the phone books that used to be attached are no longer there. Yesterday I needed to call from one and went to three of them and all had no phone books.
I hope they stick around for those of us who don’t have cell phones
Are ‘Public phone booths’ really ‘Public’? I never thought of this before… Is it a public right to have phone access? Or, is it all in the hands of private industry? If left to private industry and determined to no longer be profitable, should the public not have the right to have access to something as simple as a phone?