A little while ago I was up in the (not so) Snowy Mountains region of south-Eastern Australia, taking the kids on a trip to visit the grand Snowy Mountains Hydroelectricity Scheme‘s dams and turbines, tunnels and towns … and the mountains of course. One of the places we stayed was a caravan park on the shores of Lake Eucumbene … there was also no mobile coverage apart from a 50m circle on a patch of road some 13km back up the hill … you’d see cars there in the morning, connecting … there was a little shop in the park office, a petrol bowser and this telephone booth.
I didn’t think much of it at the time apart from my initial “haven’t seen one of those in a while” … until after dark when I went for a walk outside; and there it was … a poignant reminder of communication and connectedness bathed in a pool of it’s own making. I just had to take some pictures as you do. Truth be told I wasn’t actually talking on the phone but I was missing someone and I imagined I was calling them from a place a long way away … which in many ways this was … a long way away 🙂
The late night call 🙂
It is a rather posher rarity than the phone booths I remember from my yoof. Does Telstra still hire incontinent wayfarers to give them that special odour?
Hehehe … no direct evidence of Telstra’s incontinent wayfarer hirelings … I had to use *gasp!* coins! Couldn’t remember the last time I used those to make a call 😉
great pic. good to see you too. I’d love to have a long conversation from a place like that! xoxo
Cheers. It certainly lent itself to long periods of introspection… would need plenty of coins though! 😉 xo
I remember this one. You know, somewhere in rural Romania, Miss Crina might still be waiting for the diptych you promised to made with this pictures 😉
We still have phone booths out on the streets here and there, sometimes this makes me wonder as most people either have mobile phones or use special stores for calls abroad. The newer ones are mostly made of glass with a bit of pink, the older ones are yellow and the very old ones here in town are made of ornamented black iron, very interesting. I think I haven’t actually used one of these for at least a decade or more.
Well, I hope Ms Crina will not have to wait too long! ;-P
I hadn’t used a phone booth in (what I shudder to think is) a decade or more … I had to go and find change to pour into it 🙂