Tart card

Tart cards in a British phone box advertising the services of call girls

Tart cards are cards placed in phone booths to advertise the services of call girls. They are most common in London (especially) but can be found elsewhere in the United Kingdom. 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] and on the streets and public men's toilets of Seoul.

[edit] References

1. ^ "Crackdown on telephone box "tartcards"", PA News (1999-05-16). Retrieved on 11 November 2006. 
2. ^ Bruce, Cara (2003-08-26). "Tart cards", Eros Zine. Retrieved on 11 November 2006. 
3. ^ Russell, Sabin (2003-06-29). "'Just Say No'—to sex—hits Las Vegas", San Francisco Chronicle, p. 46. 

[edit] Further reading

• 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.
• The X-Directory, edited by Tony Devlin. Pi34 Publisher, 1993. (ISBN 1898760004)

[edit] External links

• Pictures of the inside of a phone booth covered in tart cards
• The X-Directory

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