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Payphones. Filthy, greasy, germ laden, nasty, disgusting payphones. Ha....the calls used to be a dime. Then I read Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book", and it said that you could use a size #14 brass washer instead of the dime. So, naturally, me & friends went to hardware store to buy some of those washers. It worked. The book had lots of questionable information, such as how to send letters for free .....
Payphones. Filthy, greasy, germ laden, nasty, disgusting payphones. Ha....the calls used to be a dime. Then I read Abbie Hoffman's "Steal This Book", and it said that you could use a size #14 brass washer instead of the dime. So, naturally, me & friends went to hardware store to buy some of those washers. It worked. The book had lots of questionable information, such as how to send letters for free .....
We still have payphones around here. Not as many as before, but I can think of half a dozen. Also, the Lake County Government Center in Crown Point, IN still has a row of actual phone booths with the folding doors and a place to sit inside. What a throw back, huh? They are used pretty frequently. The courtrooms don't allow cell phones, so I've used the phone booths there several times to call my office.
We still have payphones around here. Not as many as before, but I can think of half a dozen. Also, the Lake County Government Center in Crown Point, IN still has a row of actual phone booths with the folding doors and a place to sit inside. What a throw back, huh? They are used pretty frequently. The courtrooms don't allow cell phones, so I've used the phone booths there several times to call my office.
I actually do miss payphones, rainroosty. I agree, however, that they can be filthy and disgusting. Last week I forgot my cell phone and needed to call my husband so we could arrange to meet, where & when. I had to drive back home (which was waaay out of the way) just to get my cell phone for one call.
Also, as a receptionist for a bank, I fairly frequently have people coming in asking to use the phone. I can't let them use my switchboard phone. So I end up many times letting them use my own cell phone.
Speaking of phones, the thing I DON'T miss are phones you had to actually answer to know who was calling. (era before caller ID!)
I miss payphones when my "cell/mobile" runs out of credit, which happens rather frequently. In the UK the demise of those payphones is well underway; they are being removed from most public places now.
I'm with ya on "the days before air conditioning", AksarbeN. I can remember sitting curled up on the window sill in the middle of the night on hot summer nights in TX in the 1940's, grateful for the tiniest bit of breeze that might come in. We didn't even have an electric fan.
I'm with ya on "the days before air conditioning", AksarbeN. I can remember sitting curled up on the window sill in the middle of the night on hot summer nights in TX in the 1940's, grateful for the tiniest bit of breeze that might come in. We didn't even have an electric fan.
No wonder you moved to Nebraska! (If Texas did not have a/c now, I'll probably be on the quickest plane up there! )
I don't miss playing the vinyl records on the turntable
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