These days, phone booths are for people who can’t afford a cellphone, or the extremely rare person who doesn’t want one. Providing phone booths is more of a public service than a source of profit, but that’s no excuse not to take care of them. The last time we ran to a phone booth and said “get me rewrite, sweetheart,” was in 1995, and only because the stone-age cellphone issued to us went dead. “Don’t the nice people at Bell ever inspect their assets?”We went there and found a battered phone booth with glass so grimy that it’s hard to see through some of the panels. In the age of pocket computer/cameras that can also be used to make an old-fashioned phone call, there isn’t nearly as much demand for phone booths as there used to be.

Source: thestar June 14, 2016 21:00 UTC