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Encyclopedia > Tart card

Tart cards are cards found in phone booths in London (especially) and in certain places elsewhere in the United Kingdom that advertise the services of call girls. They are typically placed in phone booths by professional "carders", who tour the phone booths, replacing cards which have been removed by the telephone companies' cleaners. Placing them in phone booths is now illegal. [1] [2] Similar cards may be found in phone booths and scattered on the streets of Las Vegas, where they are known as "sex cards". [3] Phone Booth is a 2002 morality thriller about a man who is trapped in a telephone booth by a sniper. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... A call girl is a prostitute who is not visible to the general public, like a street walker, and who does not usually belong to an institution like a brothel. ... This article is about the city of Las Vegas in Nevada. ...


See also

  • Tart Cards: London’s Illicit Advertising Art, Caroline Archer and Rob Clayton, Mark Batty Publisher, 2003. (ISBN 978-0972424042)
  • Tart Cards, Caroline Archer, Baseline 40, edited by Mike Daines & Hans Dieter Reichert, Bradbourne Publishing, 2003.

Caroline Archer is a writer and author on the topic of graphic design and visual arts. ... Caroline Archer is a writer and author on the topic of graphic design and visual arts. ... Following is a list of Baseline magazine issues compiled from the Baseline website [1] and printed magazines. ...

References

  1. ^ "Crackdown on telephone box "tartcards"", PA News, 16 May 1999. Retrieved on 2006-11-11. 
  2. ^ Cara Bruce. "Tart cards", Eros Zine, August 26, 2003. Retrieved on 2006-11-11. 
  3. ^ Sabin Russell. ""Just Say No"—to sex—hits Las Vegas", San Francisco Chronicle, June 29, 2003, p. 46. 

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External links

  • Pictures of the inside of a phone booth covered in tart cards

  Results from FactBites:
 
Tart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (101 words)
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A tart is a pastry dish, usually sweet, similar to a pie, but different in that the top is open and not covered with pastry.
The tarte Tatin is a particular kind of "upside-down" tart, of apples, other fruit, or onions.
Tart card - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (157 words)
So-called tart cards are cards found in phone booths in London, Hove and Brighton that advertise the services of prostitutes.
Placing them in phone booths is now illegal, although this has only reduced their number, rather than eliminating them.
Cards of the same type, often bound into small booklets, litter the streets of cities in Japan.
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