Tart card
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London
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but can be found elsewhere in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. 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, although it still continues.
Similar cards may be found in phone booths and scattered on the streets of Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...
, where they are known as "sex cards".
Similar advertise may be found on the streets and in the public men's toilets of Seoul
Seoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
.
Phone booths in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
and São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
are also used to place tart cards.
A kind of tart cards can also be found in Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
, Poland, where they are placed behind windscreen wipers in the central parts of the city. The cards are distributed by "carders".
Further reading
- Tart Cards: London’s Illicit Advertising Art, Caroline Archer and Rob Clayton, Mark Batty PublisherMark Batty PublisherMark Batty Publisher is an independent book publishing company specializing in illustrated books on the art of communication: photography, art and design, graffiti and urban art; pop culture, typography and other related topics...
, 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)