When we think of London, we think of red phone booths. Although we don’t consider using them, they are still there, quietly residing on foggy streets in our british imagination. Pretty soon, that may be the only place we’ll be able to see them… either there, a museum or on a european version of MTV Cribs where a celebrity has turned one into a refrigerator.

Since 2002 the iconic phone booth has been slowly disappearing. With an ever growing cellphone population – Britain has more cellphones than people – the need for a phone booth is becoming obsolete. For example, the use of pay phones has dropped by more than half in the past three years and 30,000 of them have been removed. Although many of them have been replaced with more modern booths that serve as wireless hotspots, we’ll miss the traditional british stylings of the red phone booth. Its design was timeless, too bad its technology didn’t fare the same.

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