A telephone booth, telephone kiosk, telephone call box or telephone box is a small structure furnished with a payphone and designed for a telephone user's convenience. In the USA, Canada and Australia, "telephone booth" is used, while in the UK and the rest of the Commonwealth it is a "telephone box" or "phone box". Such a booth usually has a door to provide privacy and a window to let others know if the booth is in use.
You don't see many phone booths these days because everyone has a cell phone. But there are still a few out there, and some are pretty cool. Here are 50 cool phone booths for your enjoyment:
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| A few owls |
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| A seal on a glacier |
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| The world |
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A gothic design in Dubai
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| A sort of minimalist design in New York |
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| A shark phone booth |
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| An egg. "Eggcellent." Get it? Egg? Never mind |
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| A cell phone booth |
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| A Swedish phone booth |
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| An ice booth |
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| A Mercury Capsule phone booth, and also of note, an R2-D2 mailbox |
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| A fairly common design around the world |
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| Rikstelefon |
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| Silly hippies |
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| An ice phone in Alaska. "Can your mom talk on the phone?" "Idaho, Alaska." Teehee |
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| A Japanese inspired phone booth |
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| Herro Kitty |
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| Cool glass booth |
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| An old-timey booth |
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| Silly monkey, phones are for people |
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| What makes it fun? |
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| Oh Homer, you so crazy |
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| An umbrella looking phone booth |
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| Why did the chicken cross the road? "I'm lost and I can't find my medication." Wrong, to get to the other side |
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| These guys |
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| Hola |
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| A jaguar |
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| A fish |
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| Pretty flower |
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| A Dutch wooden shoe |
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| Froot Loops |
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| A big seashell |
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| Worlds largest phone booth? |
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| Converted to an aquarium |
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| Another aquarium |
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| Woodchuck? |
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| Another fish |
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| Another ice phone booth |
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| A phonebooth on a rowboat |
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| Tubular |
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| I don't know what this style is called |
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| A Chinese phone booth |
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| Budha phone booth |
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| Fake tree |
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| Brick buildings |
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| Another tree |
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| Stalin era looking phone booth |
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| Rawr |
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| Bull |
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| Beach umbrella |
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The TARDIS didn't even make the top 50? Now THAT'S one cool phone booth!
ReplyDeleteYou're right. I'm sure Dr. Who is spinning in his grave. What have I done???
ReplyDeleteman, that first colorfull one is not an umbrella, but a berimbau, a brazilian musical instrument made of wood, a string and a cabaça. It´s used at capoeira, a traditional type of figth that we have since slavery time. It´s very common in Bahia, although it was born in Rio.
ReplyDeleteAnd that gigant one is very near my house (actually, I've made a few calls in it)..
The Tardis is a police booth...not a phone booth.
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