German Phone Booths

I can easily remember being introduced to the public German phones in 1978.  You could go into Frankfurt and find them within a three-minute walk in any direction. 

In the 1990s as cellphones came along, you started to notice the public booths disappearing.

I would take a guess today.....throughout the whole city of Wiesbaden, there's probably only fifty of these still left.  At best, there might be five or six calls a week now made from these. In another ten years, I expect all of them to be gone.

If you had suggested back in 1985 that they'd all rapidly disappear, most Germans would have laughed.