A WORKING pay phone! Sure, I've seen old phones from time to time, but its been at least 10 yrs since I've come across a working one.

How much for a call?

I guess "if you have to ask, you can't afford it"

How much? .50 per minute.......

I kept my call VERY short.

Was the phone sticky? They usually were

I wonder if those are for the growing population of "urban campers"

It was stuck to the saddle, but the receiver wasn't sticky.

Inflation has caused "drop a dime on someone" to drop "half-a-buck"...

I remember using them while holding it with a napkin and trying to hear the person on the other end while not actually letting it touch my ear lol.

I occasionally see leftover phone stands/poles at some older gas stations where those pay phones used to be before they removed them years ago. Figured they'd take the stand too when they took the phone away, and even stranger the store owner would let the empty stand sit there on the sidewalk forever.

Just wait until someone trips on it and is "injured" and hires an attorney. Then they will remove it lol.

I see one in a blue moon. But it's been years since I saw a phone booth.

Wait till these new kids find out there’s money in it. I can’t believe it’s still there.

There is a small town north of me, population 171 that I drive through every once in awhile.
They have a working phone in the town square and I just had to stop and take a picture. They have a small bank there and the president is a friend of mine.
He told me that many visitors stop to take pictures of it. If they see the person from the bank , they will call the phone and chat with them, lol.

^ That's funny. They've become relics.

Some actually stole our local empty phone booth this past year. Was big news here.

I would love to have one like this from the 1970's. I see them for sale and prices are high.

When my first wife and I were house shopping we looked at a nice split level that had a working pay phone in the basement.

Wow that one would really throw someone young for a loop! Not only a coin slot but a ROTARY DIAL

I worked for a Telphone company for 33 yrs, I have two or three older pay phones that we called triple slots with rotary dials, one chrome and two blacks or maybe it is two chrome and one black (Kellog and ITT brand) as well as several older regular phones that I would sell for the highest price i can get for them now They may have worked a long time ago but they were what we call pre pay phones, you put the money in before dialing, the later ones like in the picture above are post pay. You pay after they connected. The ones I have are very old,40+yrs or more
PM me if interested and we can discuss them and I can send you some pictures of them to let any one interested getting one

I was just thinking to myself..... Hell I just used one here at XXX.....ooops that was 23 years ago. Probably gone. Where does the time go?

How many remember the pre bought time number that you dialed first before you dialed the regular number?