Or in rural American, "run oft."
As apposed to, "he done ran out on her"!
Or in rural American, "run oft."
Not much anymore. I occasionally set up the old Panasonic I've had since the early '80s. Compared to then, its a desert. Not even the Russian Woodpecker to keep one company. Back then I was amused that Radio Moscow had two English broadcasting services. One was in British English and one was in American English. The reporting on the same story would be different. And in its way, Radio Tirana out of Enver Hoxha's Albania was unbiased. It was anti-US, anti-USSR, anti-China, anti-Yugoslavia, anti-Italy, anti-Greece, anti-Turkey, etc… But a good strong signal it had.
The oxymoron "Old News" applies here, and I apologize if already posted on this thread (but still noteworthy, I think?) The last phone booths in NYC!
http://www.scoutingny.com/the-last-phone-booth-in-new-york-city/
Wonder if they're still there. I'm also forwarding the link to my UWS-resident daughter to investigate...
Those were standard-issue Western Electric booths, for the most part. You could order them in dark or light wood, with or without an automated ventilation fan that would come on when the door was closed, and with or without an integrated electric interior light. There were even versions with a built-in swivel chair for telephoning from a seated position, with the mounting board for the phone adjusted accordingly.
These were all hand-assembled at the Western Electric factory, and were shipped crated and ready to use. They could be easily installed in just about any indoor area with an unused corner.
The wooden booth remained standard in the WE catalogs until the fifties, when the aluminum-and-glass booth became popular. These were seen as cheaper to build and easier to maintain, especially for outdoor use, and remained the standard issue until the little kiosks became popular in the seventies.
I remain convinced that it's time for phone booths to make a comeback -- if not for an actual payphone inside then to provide a place where the cellphone-user can be isolated from ambient noise and everybody else can be isolated from the cellphone-user. I've been trying for years to convince the people with the checkbook that we should install a traditional wooden booth in the lobby at the theatre -- our number-one complaint is that when people go out into the lobby to take phone calls they talk loud enough you can hear them inside. Nobody needs to hear you argue with your stupid boyfriend.
I've even offered to wire up a payphone to use in the booth if we get one, but so far they don't see the value in the idea. But they aren't here every night to listen to it.
... When you come across a custom booth, take a look inside to see if it's actually square, with a rubber floor and a light fixture recessed into the top. If so, you're in a standard WE booth that's been faired into a custom architectural setting.
Certainly a vast number of drivers behave as though indicators don't exist!