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telephone booth
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telephone booth
telamones at Agrigentum
An enclosure for a telephone in a public area.


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Posters depicting Rubinstein as a caring mom urging her "sons" to play safe were plastered all over Los Angeles's buses and buildings before going national and then international--they were spotted on phone booths as far away as Madrid.
In busy areas - sidewalks, parks, hotels, stations and stores - phone booths blocked out the noisy crisscross of bustle and hurry for a minute so a person could conduct a conversation over a pay phone.
While the earliest users of calling cards used public phone booths with card readers to make phone calls, modern day users can just about use a calling card from just about any telephone line, or even from a mobile phone.
 
 
 
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