can you check out these two phone booths offered by Custom Dioramics and tell me if they are English or used on the continent during WWII?
don't want to use an Italian phone booth outside Berlin.....
if the link does not work, the item numbers are:
CD6059 - item is shown painted green
CD6060 - item is shown painted blue
thx - Craig
They're not British certainly. By WWII, pretty much all of the phone booths in the UK were those big, red, rectangular ones, much beloved by drunks as outdoor toilets.
Can't tell you where they were used though, sorry.
German?
French?
I'm just guessing, with an eye some old German booths seen in Köln and to the national colours used even for race cars.
By the way don't worry about Italian phone booths. They must have been a very rare sight. At that age, here, the public phones were mainly just token telephones hanged to walls in train stations, hotels, bars, inns and tobacconists. I can't remember not even one picture of an Italian outdoor phone booth dating back before the Fifties, although it is filed that in Italy street phone booths were already produced in 1949. A typical institution was the "posto pubblico", a sort of bureau where one found public phones (not necessarily token phones), sometime hosted by a tourist board or a post office, that survived until the diffusion of cellular phones in the last ten years.
-- Luca Beato -
German?
French?
I'm just guessing, with an eye to some old German booths seen in Köln and to the national colours used even for race cars.
By the way don't worry about Italian phone booths since they must have been a very rare sight. At that age, here, the public phones were mainly just token telephones hanged to walls in train stations, hotels, bars, inns and tobacconists. I can't remember not even one picture of an Italian outdoor phone booth dating back before the Fifties, although it is filed that in Italy street phone booths were already produced in 1949. A typical institution was the "posto pubblico", a sort of bureau where one found public phones (not necessarily token phones), sometime hosted by a tourist board or a post office, that survived until the diffusion of cellular phones in the last ten years.
-- Luca Beato -
Not French, not German, not Polish. Probably Hollywood Europe...
Actually, Luca is right : at that time, in most European countries, "public" phones were in cafés and at the Post Office, often at the rate of one phone for the whole town...
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