Comments on: Radio City Music Hall

By: lionemom

lionemom — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:47:01 +0000

I would have to suggest that the reason phone booths have disappeared is because they were frequently being used as bathrooms. That was my experience anyway, and that is back when I lived in NY more than ten years ago. You just couldn’t use a pay phone in the subway at all. They were all booths and the booths just reeked of urine, old and new.

I get the oogys just thinking about it. Bleah.

But that’s just my opinion on the subject.

LOVE the photo!

By: Kiala

Kiala — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:01:33 +0000

Whenever I see Rockefeller Center all I can think about are goddamn twitchy skirts.

By: Nora

Nora — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:39:33 +0000

Love this picture. I want one to frame and put in my house as the centerpiece to my living room.

By: Cory

Cory — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:56:36 +0000

My buddy Erik wrote a piece in the New York Press about phone booths and the few that are left. It’s worth a quick read.

http://www.nypress.com/21/4/news&columns/feature3.cfm

By: Heather B.

Heather B. — Thu, 22 May 2008 15:16:12 +0000

I am Salinger obsessed and your description just solidified your awesomeness.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:36:23 +0000

Isn’t it great how some signs stand the tests of time> I’m sure they keep that thing meticulously maintained, but there’s always the small dents that just stick out like a sore thumb, and the bubbled paint at the bottom. And the neon! Kids today don’t know the history of the stuff - hope these old neon signs never fade away completely! Love it!

By: Frayda

Frayda — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:11:55 +0000

It’s odd, but I never realised it. Phone booths really have disappeared, haven’t they? I can’t remeber the last time I’ve seen one. There’s still payphones here and there, but no actual phone booths.

By: alaina

alaina — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:53:23 +0000

Jodie, I totally did the same thing. Our library had strict rules about checking out periodicals, so I sat hunkered into a dark corner reading Salinger instead of doing my school work.

By: Jodie

Jodie — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:18:18 +0000

In college, I went to back issues of the New Yorker, to find more J. D. Salinger short stories that weren’t included in his books. His views on religion in the Glass family stories definitely influenced me. I took Asian religions in college because my interest by peaked by reading him. Thanks for the great photography and the memory of a great author.

By: ACB

ACB — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:52:09 +0000

If you weren’t already my biggest blog crush, this post would have cemented it. I read F&Z as a freshman in college; I re-read it a few years ago when I moved to NYC. The notes in the margins and the furious underlinings made it feel like I was reading a letter from my angst-ridden 18-year-old self… I decided I’ll read it again after another 10-ish years have passed and see what lessons it has for me then.

You and Heather and Leta and the pups are awesome. Keep on rockin.