Thursday, April 12, 2012

...life in contrast...
It's hard to imagine living in today's so-called modern world without a cell phone and the internet (much less an indoor flush toilet).

Before the invention of the pay phone, corner grocery stores once provided small neighborhoods and rural towns with the only telephonic link to the outside world.
Small Chinese grocery shop with neighborhood telephone
Changsha, P.R.C. (June 2009)