Talk:Telephone booth

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The "Paying for the Call" section seems very US-centric -- it doesn't seem to apply, for instance, to the pay telephones of Paris as I recall them. --Calieber 18:40, 4 Oct 2003 (UTC)

"Superman and his anthropomorphic parody Underdog have often been depicted as changing from their secret identities into their superhero counterparts in telephone booths. Phone booths are not the most practical of places for effecting a change of costume for those unendowed with superpowers. Even the superheroes can be confounded — in the 1978 film Superman, Christopher Reeve's Superman comically discovers during an emergency that the local pay phones are the open-kiosk style."

Almost no examples exist in the periodicals of Superman changing clothes in a phonebooth. The misconception comes from the Fleishcer cartoons-when phonebooths were wooden, not transparent.

Even so, the date of that movie - and the humor of that scene - shows the error in the assertion that Starting in the 1980s pay telephones were less and less commonly placed in booths., which I am now changing to read 1970s. --Keeves 17:44, 14 December 2005 (UTC)