Found near the entry to the London Underground were two classic red telephone boxes.

One of the early century phones found along Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, California. Notice the cost of $US 0.50 for local calls of unlimited duration.

A pay phone provided by the University of California at Berkeley for its students on campus.

A plastic shield protected a public telephone in Brussels, Belgium.

Across the street at Kensington Gardens a bicycle rode past one of the classic red London phone booths.

Here was a former Pacific Bell telephone booth that was purchased by SBC. The booth was still labeled Pacific Bell, but the telephone inside clearly belonged to SBC.

Before the Transbay Terminal in downtown San Francisco was torn down for replacement, it held inside a bank of pay phones.

A two sided phone booth on a post was found on the sidewalk in downtown San José, Costa Rica.

A line of phones set back in an alcove was found near a park in downtown San José, Costa Rica.

Even small towns in Costa Rica had nice phones.

This pay phone was set in a nice alcove in the outside garden next to the Winery store.

A retired telephone booth was found a the marina in Moss Landing, California. In its heyday, such a booth would have not only held a payphone, but a phone book too. In those days, instead of googling for an address, you would duck into any phone booth and find the address in that phone book, possibly rip the page out, then find someone to ask for directions.

A payphone booth was nestled along the waterfront, next to a row of newspaper stands, and under the bow of the Holland America Line's MS Oosterdam Ship .