Culture
A Bitter Goodbye From a Phone Booth Left Behind
“You don’t want to use us anymore? Fine. But do you even see us anymore?”
“We used to run this town.”
Once ubiquitous in bustling metropolises like New York City, payphones have been cast aside as relics of a tethered time. In the rare instances that we walk past one, we don’t even bat an eye. We barely look up from the sleeker, shinier devices that made them obsolete.