This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Communication.
I thought about how quickly the smartphone has taken over as a means of communication, not just phone calls but texting and email.
Then I spotted a payphone and thought about how they had almost disappeared.
Edited to give the photo the look of an old film shot.
11 replies on “A Photo a Week Challenge: Communication”
The concept of “communication” has changed drastically in recent years. It was a joy to see this payphone. Payphones have almost disappeared here in Japan too. As always, thank you for sharing.
It was something that I very rarely used so not something that I missed until I questioned where the last one I saw was.
Payphones are almost extinct in lil red dot here too. With cell phones, pay phones are no longer a necessity it seems. Nice nostalgic shot
Thank you.
Would today’s kids know how to use it?!
What I didn’t notice until editing the shot was that it had been updated to take credit/debit cards. I don’t remember that ability previously.
Some of ours had that ability, before they all started disappearing!
I just wondered how long it had had that ability. It seemed to be a new feature but maybe it had been updated a decade or so ago and I never noticed.
Ours came in a decade or so ago, but only remember that because I had one at the end of our road!
I remember always making sure I had a dime (and then a quarter) with me so I could make a call no matter where I was or what was happening.
I suspect a lot of people did. Now you would have to know where there was a payphone.