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.
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.
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It was something that I very rarely used so not something that I missed until I questioned where the last one I saw was.
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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
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Thank you.
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Would today’s kids know how to use it?!
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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.
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Some of ours had that ability, before they all started disappearing!
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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.
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Ours came in a decade or so ago, but only remember that because I had one at the end of our road!
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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.
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I suspect a lot of people did. Now you would have to know where there was a payphone.
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