Do you know how many outdoor telephone booths there are in Manhattan? Four.
Hat tip, Joe.My.God: Last Call For The Phone Booth {VIDEO}
The video there is from that Sunday morning show on CBS.
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Same with Japan's arcade industry and print media. They've been able to keep the two relatively strong.
Public telephones have been used by bad people - like drug dealers, pimps, gangs, etc. - because they're anonymous and hard to trace.
The fact that public phones are also a convenient way to call for help is secondary since almost everyone in Manhattan has their own cellphone now. Even homeless people can get cellphones if they have some kind of a prepaid debit card.
Just sayin'
I took my grandnieces there (from Kansas City) because one of them is into castles, and there's some sort of park with a stone castle in it a few miles south. Lindsborg was settled primarily by Swedish immigrants, and they play that up. One of the ways is with Dala Horses - a traditional carved wood toy from the Dalarna region. They have over two dozen large Dala horses around town that various artists painted in a variety of ways. Downtown, they have the phone booth below, also painted traditionally. Still has a phone in it. The grandnieces had no idea what it was.
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because it's hard to trace.
But now it is a replica and no longer the official police station. 
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In the early 1960's, Carrabelle's police phone was located in a call box that was bolted to a building at the corner of U.S. Highway 98 and Tallahassee Street. During this time, the city had problems with people making unauthorized long distance calls on its police phone. Johnnie Mirabella, the only St. Joe Telephone Company employee in Carrabelle at the time, moved the phone to another location, but the illegal calls continued.
Mirabella noticed that the policeman would get drenched while answering phone calls when it was raining. So when the telephone company decided to replace its worn out phone booth in front of Burda's Pharmacy with a new one, he decided to solve both problems at once by putting the police phone in the old booth.
On March 10, 1963, Mirabella, with the help of Curly Messer, deputy sheriff at the time, moved the phone booth to its current site on U.S. Highway 98. The booth did protect the officers from the elements, but some people still snuck into it to make long distance calls. Eventually the dial was removed from the phone, making it impossible for anyone to make calls.
http://carrabelle.org/things-to-do/worlds-smallest-police-station/
