Boothette

[…]plaintiff was in boothette-type telephone on sidewalk outside drugstore when automobile suddenly jumped over the curb and sidewalk and crushed her against steel pipe and brick wall;

A motorist may drive up to the phone, which is housed in a plastic boothette, drop in a coin or two, and make a call without leaving his car. The walk-up public telephone is the same type of boothette mounted on a slightly higher pedestal and is located where it can readily be seen and used by pedestrians.

[…]Company tried public reaction to its initial placement of a new type outside telephone booth along the boulevard (page 44, The American City, April 1960). The result: excellent. The attractiveness of the colorful boothettes and the additional pedestrian traffic on Hollywood Boulevard have produced an additional source of revenue[…]

The only equipment we took, sir, is our equipment, our boothette, pay phone, and wire.

Even if Southern Bell did owe its customers a duty of some type to furnish a reasonably safe place to use the telephone, it is clear that such a duty does not extend to the repair of a defective post located five feet from the boothette.

Newly designed telephone boothette

The objective of this five-day course is for each student to be able to install, maintain, and troubleshoot the A.E. 120A Single Slot Coin Telephone and equipment related to its function (booth, boothette and shelfette).

D. Semi-Public Telephone Service / For Rochester Metropolitan Exchanges: / Semi-Public Telephone [“Old”] $10.03 [“New*”] $16.98 / Access Line 10.19 8.08 / Indoor Booth 12.11 18.97 / Boothette 2.72 5.13