Jasper Tin Neck posted:

Phone booths used to be everywhere when I was a kid. There was one next to my school, outside the store, at a crossing on our suburban home street and in the lobby of the airport. By the early 2000s all of them were gone due to the proliferation of mobile phones.

I makes you wonder what mundane urban fixture is gone next. I suspect it's the postbox, because people send fewer and fewer letters these days.

Overall a large number of physical services performed at certain premises have been rendered obsolete by electronic services. The ranks of photo developers, bank branch offices, post offices and computer stores have been severely thinned by digital photography, online banking, email and online shopping.