A Little Person In A Phone Booth – 1977

Lake George, NY, Aug 5 – SHORT CIRCUIT
Three-foot high Ruthie Soucek solves her height problem by utilizing the shelf in a telephone booth at Lake George, NY.  She is a member of a performing group appearing in this community. – AP Wirephoto 1977

Another slow news day photograph. So if a newspaper had some extra column space to fill, this photo and caption might appear. Unfortunately the photographer is uncredited.

If you look closely you will notice the phone is a rotary dial. Then of course there is the phone booth itself which has virtually vanished over the last two decades from the American landscape.

Ask ten people under the age of 25 if they have seen either a rotary phone or a phone booth in person and I’d imagine half would say no.