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Bell Pay-phone booths were both the iconic and irreplaceable hubs strategically located around cities, freeways and event centres. These nodes spoked into collection stations populated with business men and commuters connecting with their families, clients and colleagues. Where Clark Kent transformed Into Superman. Would Tippi Hedren still be with us without the safe haven of the legendary telephone booth? Would I have been able to collect call my friends before data plans and social networks with barely audible messages such as "you are receiving a collect call from "heyitsmeimonmywaymeetyouattheparkinabouttenminutes".

When I wander the city I cannot stop myself from getting jealous of the sites these booths get agency over. VIP sections in stadiums, front row center of iconic structures (ROM), inside circles of gossip rings of dorm rooms, universities, underground service in subways, the lineups in hospitals spreading the news of a newborn-or maybe expressing loss of a family member. There is the lonely booth in the middle of highway 67 way up north, the kinky booth getting some action in the village, or the bank of booths between airport terminals. 

They may never spawn an iconic love as those that appear in the dr.no time machine series, the secrecy needed for superman to tear off his suit or the bubbly booths in China that school girls photograph with their smartphones showing a googly giant orange head but the are the ones I did call home from (again sometimes with the very informative collect call. However these are the Bell pay phones that connected us all for decades and gradually get removed from our landscape I will photograph the graffiti tagged, physically abused, and underused gems