Phone booths have all but vanished from the American landscape.
IN FACT: GC69X0Q – Superman’s Dressing Room – has vanished.
It’s bad enough that the extinction of the public telephone has created so much hardship for the cell-phoneless but far worse is the chilling effect it has had on the crime-fighting work of SUPERMAN.
Why has the phone booth become synonymous with Superman?
Bud Collyer, who voiced Superman in the 1940’s radio series, would sometimes state that he needed to duck into a nearby phone booth for a quick change.
The very first time he was seen using a telephone booth was in a 1941 animated short film called “The Mechanical Monsters”.
Superman was shown using Phone Booths starting in late 1942 in the Sunday comic strip. Clark, seeing that there is a job for Superman, excuses himself from Lois by arranging to be called away by a bogus phone call.
In “The Adventures of Superman” TV series in the 1950’s, Clark mostly used the Daily Planet Store Room. Sometimes he used a back alley way …. but in all 104 episodes he never used a phone booth.
Somewhere along the way, as phone booths disappeared, it occurred to Superman that he could simply change his clothes at super-speed right in the middle of a busy street and no one would see anything more than a blur.
Now do your best Superman
while finding this cache to avoid being seen by muggles.
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