That Long Distance Feeling

Well several of you noticed the phone booth in my Whyte Avenue street shot from the other day so I decided to show it to you up close.
And Melody makes such a wonderful model. So the question is how close to the real thing is this English style Phone Booth?

[Shirley Banford]

I'll bet you both have cell phones. Is that a pub I see? Thanks for sharing this.

[summerfield]

hi there, melody!

[Mrs. Smith]

Great picture of Melody with the phone booth. It's funny how outdated phone booths have become.

[Sheila]

Someone has been shopping too!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Well I've never been to London, but it looks pretty close to me- especially with the pub in the background!

[Brian Baptie]

Looks as though you could be in London!!

[Anne ❀]

very cool capture! melody looks very happy, as usual. you have a great collection of pics of her.

[Cindy Rez]

Nice shot of Melody with the phone booth..is it still a working one?

[Kerri]

Great capture

[karenann]

Cute capture . . Melody looks great. That booth looks pretty worn out! I hope that she wasn't there to make a phone call. :)

[bkb in the city]

@karenann No just posing for a picture

[Donna]

just checking, is there a phone in there?

[bkb in the city]

@kerristephens Thanks Kerri

[bkb in the city]

@pointnshoot28 Yes there is. Melody is blocking it. You can just see a little piece of it over her one shoulder

[Debbie Orlando]

Hi, Melody!!! I love how you pose for all these shots. :-) A phone booth??? What is that? None of those around here anymore. I love it! So retro.

[bkb in the city]

@cindyrez Yes it is still working

[bkb in the city]

@sunnygreenwood Well she loves to have her picture taken

[bkb in the city]

@debsphotos They are getting harder and harder to find here as well

[Kimmi]

Nice portrait

[bkb in the city]

@bdb3471 I am not actually sure why they went with one of these here

[bkb in the city]

@olivetreeann Hmm may be the pub has something to do with why this is here

[bkb in the city]

@swguevin The bag she has was from the City Market we were at before making our way over here

[bkb in the city]

@mrssmith With everyone having cell phones and all the vandlism going on they are becoming a rare find indeed

[bkb in the city]

@summerfield Hi right back at you

[bkb in the city]

@sabanford Yes we do and yes that is a pub right behind it

[Ellen E]

great find - glad there are still phone booths here and there. and what a fabulous model!

[bkb in the city]

@ellen I do find the ones like this a little more interesting

[bkb in the city]

@kimmistephens Thanks Kimmi

[Deb B]

Awesome!

[Jo Ann Bellone]

Love the phone booths which are becoming a white elephant around the world do to cell phones.

[bkb in the city]

@jolefont Glad to share this one with you

[Shirley Chetwynd]

wonderful shot of Melody and the phone box, does it still work, vandals love to wreck these in Australia, and it costs a fotune every year to fix.

[bkb in the city]

@http365proj Yes it still does work. We have the same problem with vandals here in Edmonton as well so these are becoming fewer and fewer all the time

[Shanne]

it's a real one - if I was even nerdier than I am I could tell you which version, there are several - but that's a real one

[Shanne]

mind you, it's missing a door from the look of it - I'm now going to have to take shots of the inside of our ones, aren't I/ We've got two in the High Street

[John]

Looks pretty real to me, there are a lot of these in the city still. There are a few different types.

[michelle mcintyre]

l think perhaps every body who visits England must have a shot of a red phone booth..lol...hello Melody - my first thought was that it looked like the Tardis ...lol

[Peter de Graaff]

Its great that you still have red ones. ours were taken down

[Carole Imes]

Great photo of a soon to be vintage fixture. Melody is a good model and always so cheerful ;-)

[Ian Fisher]

It's amazing how far and wide these old phone boxes have spread, and what they are now used for. There is one in a small village here in Yorkshire that is used as the village library! My neighbour to the rear of our house has one in his garden. One of my daughters found one on a hillside in Spain.

[*ShEiLaG*]

Love the phone booth! We drove thru Edmonton on our move to Alaska 5 years ago when we were in the Airforce. We stayed at that big mall and hotel. Loved it.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Very cool. Phone booths are not something you see much anymore.

[Paula]

I think the only thing missing is the phone;-) Hi Melody!!

[Mark Buehl]

Neat shot of the red phone booth. I cannot remember when I saw any public phone booth last.

[Debbi M]

Great shot. You don't see many around me anymore.

[Janet Shaffer]

Cool shot.

[Maaikel]

Looks like the original,but I do mis the door!

[Ruth Moucharafieh]

Pub and hone booth...is this really Canada?

[Zuzana]

Great capture ;-)

[Juliette Packham]

great shot - it's certainly a real one; I believe there are 8 red box models - K6 is the most common, but i'm not certain if this is a K6 or not as there isn't a crown above the doorway! nice find!

[bkb in the city]

@sparkle I did not know that there were that many models. Thanks for that info

[bkb in the city]

@zuzana Thank you

[bkb in the city]

@ruthmouch Hard to believe but yes it is

[bkb in the city]

@maaikel I never did like ones with doors. I always found them to be to small

[bkb in the city]

@janets Thanks Janet

[bkb in the city]

@debbim Phone booths are definitley becoming a rare sight

[bkb in the city]

@markbuehl Thanks Mark. Yes it is true that there are not to many left

[bkb in the city]

@pwallis Melody says Hi. The phone is being blocked by Melody. You can see a little bit of it over her shoulder

[bkb in the city]

@mittens True that you don't see to many anymore. Glad you enjoyed this

[bkb in the city]

@sheg Glad you had a good time when you were here. Melody and I have stayed there once. The Mall is a favorite place for her to hang out

[Ken Lemieux]

But no phone in the booth?

[bkb in the city]

@if1 That is quite amazing Thanks for that info and glad to have shared this one with you

[bkb in the city]

@cimes1 Thanks for the comments.

[bkb in the city]

@peterdegraaff Most of ours have been taken down too. This is a special one as most of ours are not this style or colour

[bkb in the city]

@michelle58 We have a couple of these in certain spots here in Edmonton

[bkb in the city]

@johnnyfrs Thanks John

[bkb in the city]

@shanne Thanks That would be interesting to see a real one over there to compare to this one

[bkb in the city]

@klemieux The phone is blocked by my wife

[Carolyn White]

Great find and pic, Brian! I've been sitting here trying to remember if I've seen any phone booths lately. I think I'll look for one next time I'm out and about.

[bkb in the city]

@cjwhite They are getting harder and harder to find

[Shanne]

well, this is the shot I took of our two a few months ago http://365project.org/shanne/365/2011-11-16 which shows you the door and you can just about see the telephone through the glass. Those boxes are back to back, so you get to see all around in this shot.

[bkb in the city]

@shanne Nice to see a comparison. Thanks

[Lisa Pouncy]

It looks real although very old and tatty and missing a door as Shanne said. My daughter has a lot in her university grounds. Here's my version
http://365project.org/psychographer/365/2012-03-05

[bkb in the city]

@psychographer Thanks for your picture. Yes this one has been her for quite some time. I don't think it ever had a door on it

[Dave Schofield]

This is real, and is just like ours were in the eighties when they all looked vandalised like this. Now we have ugly glass ones which are vandalised and these are restricted to twee little villages and kept in good condition. they were sold far and wide I think, you can also purchase the old post boxes online!

[bkb in the city]

@chewyteeth We do not have to more phone booths anymore for the same reason

[naladka]

I found a real thing here in Vancouver by the English grocery. Nice portrait :)

[bkb in the city]

@naladka Thanks

[Sharon]

terrific shot - what a magic find! Great model too. Wish melody would have a chat with 'the male' and tell him how it's done. He keeps either running off or making rude hand gestures! You are very lucky!

[bkb in the city]

@sharonthompson Yes I am very lucky thanks