Bill Crider:
> These days there are no phone booths around. In
hotels there's line of
> phones on the wall, and if your lucky, they'll be
separated by a piece of
> board. Sometimes they're not, and privacy is
nonexistent, not that anyone
> seems bothered by that. Except me. Outdoor public
telephones are stuck
on
> the wall of a building with a small plastic covering
to shield them from
> the rain. This is (sort of) on-topic because I've
written about it in a
> private-eye novel.
>
This is not recent. It's made into a comic sequence in In
Superman, The Movie(1978) when Christopher Reeves as Clark
Kent looks around for a booth to change into his Superman
costume and can't find one. Mark
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