Greek Phone booth- Greek plastic enclosure booths

These Greek plastic telephone enclosures offered a compact alternative to full booths. Wall-mounted hoods sheltered the handset and gave callers some privacy while leaving the surrounding space open. The photographs show rounded orange examples and later translucent purple housings marked “ΚΑΡΤΟΤΗΛΕΦΩΝΟ” (cardphone), illustrating a shift towards lighter, more colourful public telephone fittings.

NameGreek plastic enclosure booths
DateFrom around 1980
ManufacturerVarious in Greece for OTE

Above- The city of Thessaloniki during the great earthquake of 20 June 1978, with the apartment building in Hippodrome Square that collapsed.

OTE plastic booth enclosures, Greece, early 1970s. Part of the modernisation of public telephony around 1970, installed just like in other Western countries, to add a bit of acoustic privacy and mark the location of the payphone. Cheap and easy to install.

Above- locally made booths from the 1980s.

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Above- interesting recent Cypriot booths. The ones on the left are a variant of the British KX series, and the one on the right is Spanish (with a Danish GNT payphone).

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