Re: You won't believe what I saw this morning.........
[Re: SattyNoCar]
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03/16/22 02:51 PM
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How much for a call? I guess "if you have to ask, you can't afford it"
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Re: You won't believe what I saw this morning.........
[Re: SattyNoCar]
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03/16/22 03:06 PM
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larrymopar360
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Was the phone sticky? They usually were I wonder if those are for the growing population of "urban campers"
Facts are stubborn things.
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Re: You won't believe what I saw this morning.........
[Re: SattyNoCar]
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03/16/22 03:44 PM
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larrymopar360
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It was stuck to the saddle, but the receiver wasn't sticky. 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.
Facts are stubborn things.
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Re: You won't believe what I saw this morning.........
[Re: Neil]
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03/16/22 03:50 PM
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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.
Facts are stubborn things.
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Re: You won't believe what I saw this morning.........
[Re: cudaman1969]
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03/16/22 08:11 PM
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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.
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Re: You won't believe what I saw this morning.........
[Re: FM3AAR]
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03/16/22 08:26 PM
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^ That's funny. They've become relics.
Facts are stubborn things.
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Re: You won't believe what I saw this morning.........
[Re: larrymopar360]
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03/16/22 08:30 PM
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I would love to have one like this from the 1970's. I see them for sale and prices are high.
Facts are stubborn things.
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Re: You won't believe what I saw this morning.........
[Re: larrymopar360]
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03/16/22 08:50 PM
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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.
"Everybody funny, now you funny too."
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Re: You won't believe what I saw this morning.........
[Re: larrymopar360]
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03/17/22 02:21 AM
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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
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Re: You won't believe what I saw this morning.........
[Re: Cab_Burge]
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03/17/22 06:30 AM
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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?
STOP POTATO HATE!
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