CHINATOWN PHONE BOOTH

by Kevin Walsh

The other day, FNY showed you one of the original Chinatown Deskey lamps. What’s not quite as remembered is that even the phone booths were also decked out with pagoda-esque ornamentation. This one was still around in the 1970s, as it sports a pushbutton dial instead of a rotary.

You can’t do this kind of thing these days — the local youth would see to that.

Photo: Bob Mulero

3/28/15

13 comments

jimmy z March 29, 2015 - 4:29 am

I remember those. Do the lamp posts still have those same tops?

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John March 29, 2015 - 7:31 am

I have a photo of my sister in a Chinatown phone BOOTH from the late ’60s.

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Kevin Walsh March 29, 2015 - 4:27 pm

pass it on!

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John March 31, 2015 - 5:30 am

I have been looking. Of course I can’t find it.

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John April 2, 2015 - 8:41 am

2015-04-02 Chinatown Joyce

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John April 2, 2015 - 8:43 am

I can’t seem to be able to post photo. Computer illiterate.

The Doctor March 29, 2015 - 9:27 pm

Belong to Dr. Hu.

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Jeff B. March 29, 2015 - 11:30 pm

I remember they still existed in the early 90’s.

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Tal Barzilai March 30, 2015 - 10:10 pm

Is that phone booth shown in the image still around today or was it taken down a while ago?

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Kevin Walsh March 31, 2015 - 10:07 pm

Nope

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Bubba-san March 31, 2015 - 12:27 am

Me rikey!

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iphoneケース April 9, 2015 - 9:45 am

追加の噂を

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Ken Duckworth December 19, 2019 - 7:05 pm

Does anyone know where this phone was located or what the writing says on top? Thank you.

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