A very neat website introducing the Contribution of Public Telephones to everyday life, in Taiwan, from circa 1947 to 1996.
https://atc.archives.gov.tw/tel/english/03_transmute/print_04.asp
Note the second phone image, which is kind of bulky, with the traditional Post logo. The nostalgia for past days is for me captured within these images of traditional landline phones. These days, where can I find public telephones when walking about?
A (Mapquest) Bing, Apple, and Google (M-B-A-G) maps search yields the following images.
Google maps picks up MRT stations in Taipei, and I think it’ll be a checklist work to visit them and find out which ones have phones! Another question I thought of yesterday was which stations have clocks. Notably, in certain countries, public clocks are updated via radio.
Related to this is archival work on the transportation and shipping hubs in northern and southern Taiwan, located in the ports of Keelung and Kaohsiung, respectively.
https://atc.archives.gov.tw/port/document_1_1.html
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. To go hand in hand with that, a visit is worth a thousand pictures!
Update December 14, 2020.
A photo album with some locations is now in the works.
[More on this to follow]