Tart card

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. [cite news|url=http://www.corkscrew-balloon.com/cork/99london/fonegirl.html|work=PA News|date=1999-05-16|title=Crackdown on telephone box "tartcards"|accessdate=2006-11-11] [cite news|title=Tart cards|url=http://www.eros-guide.com/articles/2003-08-26/tartcard/|publisher=Eros Zine|date=2003-08-26|accessdate=2006-11-11|author=Bruce, Cara] Similar cards may be found in phone booths and scattered on the streets of Las Vegas, where they are known as "sex cards" [cite news|title='Just Say No'—to sex—hits Las Vegas|work=San Francisco Chronicle|author=Russell, Sabin|date=2003-06-29|page=46|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/06/29/MN282585.DTL] and on the streets and public men's toilets of Seoul.

References

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)

External links

* [http://www.corkscrew-balloon.com/cork/97watney/img/08.html Pictures of the inside of a phone booth covered in tart cards]
* [http://www.irdial.com/w37.htm The X-Directory]