While you are in the site, click the little thumbnails that sits
next to the telephone guy image. That'll show the various payphone
design.
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Public use phones in Brazil exist since the 1920s, but the
payphones known popularly as "orelhões" (literally, "big ears" )
were created in 1970 by Shanghai-born architect Chu Ming Silveira
(1941-1997). Chu Ming was head engineer at CTB (Brasil Telephone
Company) and created the first fiberglass design named CHU-1. These
classic designs were first presented to the public in Rio and São
Paulo in 1972.
Since then the design has remained vastly popular, but some
touristic destinations in Brazil have created their own designs,
some of which are presented on this page. The phones in this small
gallery were photographed in: Porto Seguro (Bahia), Bonito (Mato
Grosso do Sul), Palmas (Tocantins), Aracaju (Sergipe), Fortaleza
(Ceará), and other cities throughout Brazil.
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