Seen in Print

[J. S. Bach]

In my living room:

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[webenda]

They all disappeared from around here, too, along with their booths and as open-air installations.

I wonder if the bank of 4-6 of them, around for decades at the NY Public Library side of the street, at the intersection of 5th Avenue and 42nd Street, are still there.

Clark Kent walk-in phone booths? Only four left over in the Upper West End.
Pedestal-style pay phones? Yes, across from the library where you said they were.
These pay phones now have TITAN beacons in them.

[rogruth]

What is a TITAN beacon?

[webenda]

What is a TITAN beacon?

The beacons emit a signal that is picked up by smartphones. The technology is most often used to send ads, called push advertising, onto people’s cellphones. But the signal, which uses Bluetooth rather than Wi-Fi or cellular signals, can also be used to track the movements of the phones’ owners.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Thanks, very much, Wayne, for that photo of the pedestal-phones regiment. It's almost exactly how I remember them.
Thanks.
Murph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Creative wizard that you apparently are, I think you should take a gaggle of those posters to Strasburg and/or York's TCA Meet to offer them for sale to our fellow model train hobbyists. They might want to add them to their layouts as building posters or billboards, giving the children who see them all the more interest in their layouts.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Creative wizard that you apparently are, I think you should take a gaggle of those posters to Strasburg and/or York's TCA Meet to offer them for sale to our fellow model train hobbyists. They might want to add them to their layouts as building posters or billboards, giving the children who see them all the more interest in their layouts.

We very rarely see all that many children at Strasburg and I do not attend York as that interferes with that crucial sock alignment time that is required periodically.

However, I have sold things to the more youthful attendees, and at times given things away that I thought both suitable and appropriate. Last Strasburg I sold a 2 bay engine house that I have built and added considerable detail to that no one seemed to want until late in the day when a lad accompanied by his mother was much taken by it and clearing was in negotiations with her. I sold that for $20 - about 1/3 of the cost of the kit and who knows how much of my days of effort. I was delighted to see it go off with him, happily in hand barely fitting in the box I supplied, hopefully planing a seed that will continue to grow into the future.

[HONDO74]

[rogruth]

My son did not like Bozo or other clowns at all when he was young.

[rogruth]

Is there a "rational" fear of clowns?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Is there a "rational" fear of clowns?

Depends on circumstances.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Is there a "rational" fear of clowns?

Depends on circumstances.

I didn't even like Clarabelle. And I wasn't amused the time I saw Emit Kelly's woebegone "clown" when the Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey Circus came to town in the 50's, for their final Big-top raising. They all seem like flamers to me, somewhat repulsive, no matter the circumstances. Not a one ever got me to laugh. (Of course, I recognize that is odd, especially since I found Red Skelton a nauseating poser, and not one bit funny, too, no matter how many different ways he configured his mouth, waddled, and said "FffOoooohhhdeeeoatdoe doe doe." . )

I never laughed at Lucy, either, not even during the chocolates conveyor belt vignette.

Carol Burnette got me to smile, once, when she did that very clever descent down the staircase as her version of Charlotte and said, "I found it in the window and just couldn't resist."

[Roy]

Carol Burnette got me to smile, once, when she did that very clever descent down the staircase as her version of Charlotte and said, "I found it in the window and just couldn't resist."

You mean, her Gone With the Wind skit, where she wore a drapery bar as part of her outfit?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Exactly. I liked it partly because we, the audience, knew she was looking at and addressing us as much as her character was addressing the Rhett character, all very tongue-in-cheek and silly.