Dan Z. was there when the bastards took our phone booths away! The insufferable, unimaginable, unquenchable, inexhaustible bastards hauled off the phone booths from the Vince Lombardi Service Stop on the New Jersey Turnpike.

This handsome series of metal phone booths is gone, gone, gone. The above picture shows the “face of evil” spiriting the booths away. As Dan Z. remarks, ” When NASA talks about ‘Space Junk’, I suspect that they are referring to the phone booths that aliens have set into geosynchronous orbit….” The next 2 pictures show Dan Z.’s picture of these snowy booths in February, 2010; and then my shot of these booths in 1999. I feel privileged to have stepped into these urine-stanky metal hulks with telephone functionality. Only a concrete slab remains where the sticky columns of stench once stood.

Happy Memorial Day weekend! Payphones are vanishing from all around us. I hope you don’t need one, now or ever again!