WNA Globe

World News by Wild Rose

#phone booth ร—

โ€˜Phone booth princessโ€™: China grandma dedicates 33 years to managing public telephone booth

A Shanghai grandmother has been nicknamed the โ€œtelephone booth princessโ€ for persisting in her post as a public phone booth manager for 33 years. Shen Yuxiu, who is in her 80s, manages the cityโ€™s last staffed booth. She looks after two very old landline phones. Everyday she arrives at 9am and stays until 8pm. Despite the fact that the booth is located on Fuzhou Road, which connects Shanghaiโ€™s two hottest tourist spots, The Bund and Peopleโ€™s Square, Shen said that she only earns two yuan (3 US...