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The car went off the west roadway edge, hit a call box and continued south through vegetation before going over a cliff, officials said.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

BT was consulting with Aberdeenshire Council on the future of the call box, as well as those located in Crovie and Portsoy.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2021

I was a fan of Duchamp but wasn’t familiar with that particular piece, so I remember standing in a call box while Richard described it to me over the phone.

From The Guardian Dec. 7, 2018

I pass them when I drive to work, and when I was at the AU gallery, I was delighted to see that one of his paintings had a call box.

From Washington Post Aug. 1, 2017

There was a call box to ring individual apartments to ask someone to unlock the door for you.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman




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