Flashback to the Past: A Telephone Booth

I traveled the world and only called home once every 6 weeks or so. I would go nuts these days to be so "Unconnected"

So true - I can even imagine doing real estate without the internet. I often remember back to when cordless phones were the 'new' thing! 

And of course, where would Superman go to change his clothes LOL?

Love and light,

Laura

Ahhh yes, those good old days!  I remember them well and than graduated from the phone booth to the "bag phone" to tote around with you.

Sue of Robin and Sue

Now I am really feeling dated, phone booths, another lost artifact in our times, the convenience of a cell phone is a wonderful gift and a huge intrusion into our privacy.

Sondra, I haven't seen a phone booth in years. I almost forgot about them until you showed this picture of one from your Cripple Creek Museum. I am not sure what I would do without my cell phone.

It's amazing Sondra in our lifetime the phone booth has basically gone extinct and is a museum piece now with the building out of cell towers and a cellular network, but technology at certain points is disrupting. Think of that slide rule - handheld calculator day in time. Poof, one day all the slide rules disappeared. You are finding some very cool places in your travels.

Sondra - No, I can't imagine conducting any business without a cell phone, but once upon a time we did! Do you remember when we had to get up to change the channel on the TV - those where some tough times - lol. Cut photo of you in the phone booth!

Sondra, All we have our cell phones.  We don't even have a house phone anymore.  I can imagine doing real estate without a cell phone and computer!  Talk about the Dark ages!

Sondra, you're making me feel old here..... thanks (I think). Seriously, they used to have slide rule competitions. See how fast you could multiply or get a square root on the the thing using the different scales. We flew to the moon with slide rules. Nerdy engineers ALWAYS had slide rules in the pre-calculator days. The typewriter was another example going away after the computer word processor-printer came along. For your museum self here is what a slide rule looks like: (the slang for them was slip sitcks)

Sondra,

Nice post. Phone booths have disappeared as well as the pay phones that used to be in them. :)

Steve

Gary,

This is as close to a slide rule as some people will ever get - gone but not forgotten. :)

Steve

Sondra,

Congratulations. Your post is now featured in the group "Americana." :)

Steve