< Australia: Payphones in Indigenous communities to stay | Atlanta: Payphone Scammer Heads to Jail > Walhem, MA: Phone Booth of 30 Years is Removed February 21, 2006 This story (link removed since the story is no longer on the Salem News web site) makes me wonder if the phone booths I saw in Goodrich, North Dakota; Osceola, Nebraska; and Mappsville, Virginia; are still there. Any North Dakotans know about the phone booth in Goodrich? What happened in Wenham has been happening across the country, ever since cell phone technology become affordable in the mid-1990s. Before then, the pay phone was the only way to make that quick call home or to a friend. But since 2001, Verizon has seen its collection of pay phones throughout the country drop by 32 percent, to just 300,000. < Australia: Payphones in Indigenous communities to stay | Atlanta: Payphone Scammer Heads to Jail >