So sad… I will always remember a quarter to call home.
e.t. phone home
Will they be putting pay phones in museums I wonder?
There is one unoperational payphone in my city that is used as a book library. People put books inside it that others can take for free.
Good riddance. They were miserable to use. Only thing the booths were good for was sheltering from inclement weather.
(Wonder where Superman changes now?)
remember calling collect?
my friend liked to piss off the operator. it was funny.
there was still a pay phone in my last city. it was outside an indian store. people used it.
I loved payphones. When i was a kid, we had a phone booth on our street. I spend a lot of time there in 70’s and 80’s to overcome boredom. In the booths were phonebooks and we,as kids, worked a way to make free phonecalls. We did lots of prankcalls.
That’s pretty cool
we prank called the local airforce control tower once when i was 8.
Our remaining payphones are now free to use for basic calls nationwide. Not that there’s many that survived but there are the odd ones around.
These were the old mechanical ones with the old dialwheel. Something like this.
I couldn’t find an image of the payphone i mean.
The ones here in the USA
I like the British version better though
They used to be where we rolled joints in the winter
Oh youth
We had one in our high school. Then one day it was gone. I always used it freshman year when I had no cell phone yet lol
I remember having to walk a mile to get to a pay phone when I needed help one time. I used to regularly use pay phones growing up. Then, overtime, fewer and fewer were operational. I finally got a cellphone in my early 20s
I learned that there were actually guys who could hack the early payphones to get free calls by whistling certain sounds (kind of like the dial tone sound i guess) into the phone.
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