Forgotten New York

CHINATOWN PHONE BOOTH

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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