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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

London's iconic red phone booths,

byebyebritphonebooths325.jpgLondon's iconic red phone booths, which have graced Britain's streets since the 1920s, may soon be a thing of the past. Thanks to an increase in cell phone usage, British Telephone has removed "about 30,000, or a third of all pay phones, from the streets since 2002." Out of the 61,700 remaining, only about one-fourth of those booths are made with the red wood or cast iron that is stereotypically British. In turn, fewer and fewer booths on the street mean people are paying top dollar to collect them. As in the UK, the U.S. has seen a decline of more than half of all pay phones in the last ten years. [USA Today]





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