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
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I remember those. Do the lamp posts still have those same tops?
I have a photo of my sister in a Chinatown phone BOOTH from the late ’60s.
pass it on!
I have been looking. Of course I can’t find it.
2015-04-02 Chinatown Joyce
I can’t seem to be able to post photo. Computer illiterate.
Belong to Dr. Hu.
I remember they still existed in the early 90’s.
Is that phone booth shown in the image still around today or was it taken down a while ago?
Nope
Me rikey!
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Does anyone know where this phone was located or what the writing says on top? Thank you.