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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:12:55 PM EDT
[#1]
Hell yeah. I'm old though.
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:14:07 PM EDT
[#2]
Of course. Both ways, plus the wall ones that have the little bubble box.
Last time? At least a decade or more. Maybe two. |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:14:17 PM EDT
[#3]
Only when I was changing into my blue leotards and red cape
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:14:22 PM EDT
[#4]
Threads like this make me sad. My knee jerk response is "of course who the fuck hasn't?". Then I realize there are people alive now who probably haven't. This is new territory for me.
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:15:02 PM EDT
[#5]
The light won't come on if you don't shut the door. At least that's what I remember from the movies.
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:15:14 PM EDT
[#6]
Just like Get Smart, and Superman.
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:16:22 PM EDT
[#7]
I used to play inside of one in the TGI Friday's in Fort Lauderdale. I think it was a 2 story even?
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:17:05 PM EDT
[#8]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Threads like this make me sad. My knee jerk response is "of course who the fuck hasn't?". Then I realize there are people alive now who probably haven't. This is new territory for me. 
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:18:26 PM EDT
[#9]
In Cape May NJ, at USCG boot camp, the booths had no doors. They were removed.
So your poll fails. |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:19:26 PM EDT
[#10]
A bunch
Last time maybe in the 80’s? |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:19:54 PM EDT
[#11]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I used to play inside of one in the TGI Friday's in Fort Lauderdale. I think it was a 2 story even? 
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:20:48 PM EDT
[#12]
Quote HistoryQuoted: In Cape May NJ, at USCG boot camp, the booths had no doors. They were removed. So your poll fails. 
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:22:24 PM EDT
[#13]
grew up in the 80's so yes many times and not just in Germany but other Countries as well
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:23:13 PM EDT
[#14]
For talking on the phone? Or "other stuff"?
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:23:46 PM EDT
[#15]
Early 90s maybe?
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:25:37 PM EDT
[#16]
Early 90's, but it was in a bar. In public, maybe late 80's. Otherwise, I frequently used drive up pay phones into the late 90's.
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:26:51 PM EDT
[#17]
Yes
I also rested in one. Fell asleep inside one during a rain storm. |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:26:51 PM EDT
[#18]
I honestly do not recall if I have or not.
Quote HistoryQuoted: Threads like this make me sad. My knee jerk response is "of course who the fuck hasn't?". Then I realize there are people alive now who probably haven't. This is new territory for me. Most people these days have likely not even seen any type of pay phone IRL, let alone used one. (Yes, I have used pay phones before.) |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:27:02 PM EDT
[#19]
35 years ago. It was fun carrying around coins in Germany and using the phone on the streets. Into the coin slot my money dwindled away, all to talk to my girlfriend in England.
Red ones in England Yellow ones in Germany Grey and Blue in the States |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:30:20 PM EDT
[#20]
I took this pic less than a year back.
I haven’t used a pay phone in 20 years though. 
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:33:16 PM EDT
[#21]
There were two pay phones on a common pole with rain hats on a jobsite here. I sure as fuck should have took my K770 and cut the pole to recover them before the trackhoe got them.
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:33:50 PM EDT
[#22]
negative.
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:33:58 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I took this pic less than a year back. I haven’t used a pay phone in 20 years though. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/131934/60C7BECC-D53D-4006-BB80-3DE630DAF9DD-2501732.jpg A real relic, the phone book looks like it hasn't been raped. |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:34:42 PM EDT
[#24]
With a rotary dial even.
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:34:54 PM EDT
[#25]
Yes, plenty, but that was a LONG time ago.
In modern America, everyone is too fat to fit in one and close the door now. |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:35:20 PM EDT
[#26]
Yep, I always closed the door unless I was with another person.
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:35:57 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I took this pic less than a year back. I haven’t used a pay phone in 20 years though. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/131934/60C7BECC-D53D-4006-BB80-3DE630DAF9DD-2501732.jpg Da fuck is this? |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:36:27 PM EDT
[#28]
Yes and have left door open and closed door.
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:36:45 PM EDT
[#29]
Yes. Late '80s or early '90s was the last time.
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:37:28 PM EDT
[#30]
I'm closer to 70 than 60 years old - so of course I have.
I'm closer to 70 than 60 years old - so of course I can't remember when. |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:40:41 PM EDT
[#31]
A friend of mine used to think it was really funny to crop dust the inside of a phone booth when there was someone waiting to use it after he was done... He would crop dust (fart), quickly leave the booth with the door closed and wait for the facial expression of the next user of the booth..
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:41:58 PM EDT
[#32]
Used them for somewhere around a half-century, until they went the way of the Dodo Bird.
The door was usually left open on inside phones and closed on outside ones -- unless some worthless druggie/drunk had taken a shit in it and used a page from the directory as toilet paper. |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:42:01 PM EDT
[#33]
Sure. All the time back before cell phones. Not something so remarkable that I “remember” a particular occasion. I guess the last time I used an actual phone booth was probably in the mid 1990s.
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:42:41 PM EDT
[#34]
Many times. And the phone had a dial on it, too! Being an incurable claustrophobic, I always left the door open.
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:43:29 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I'm closer to 70 than 60 years old - so of course I have. I'm closer to 70 than 60 years old - so of course I can't remember when. 
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:44:01 PM EDT
[#36]
Remember checking the coin return slot and finding change?
Hell yea! |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:44:53 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Da fuck is this? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I took this pic less than a year back. I haven’t used a pay phone in 20 years though. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/131934/60C7BECC-D53D-4006-BB80-3DE630DAF9DD-2501732.jpg Da fuck is this? Has to he a museum. |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:45:07 PM EDT
[#38]
Yes. Probably 30 years ago...
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:45:24 PM EDT
[#39]
40 years ago?
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:45:25 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Threads like this make me sad. My knee jerk response is "of course who the fuck hasn't?". Then I realize there are people alive now who probably haven't. This is new territory for me. There are people alive who don't know that people regularly risked their lives to escape communist countries, and that America was once mostly highly patriotic |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:45:27 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: A friend of mine used to think it was really funny to crop dust the inside of a phone booth when there was someone waiting to use it after he was done... He would crop dust (fart), quickly leave the booth with the door closed and wait for the facial expression of the next user of the booth.. Lol |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:46:23 PM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Many times. And the phone had a dial on it, too! Being an incurable claustrophobic, I always left the door open.  Attached File |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:47:09 PM EDT
[#43]
lol, data mining thread...
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:47:22 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Has to he a museum. Terminal at the downtown airport in Shreveport. |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:47:22 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Remember checking the coin return slot and finding change? Hell yea!  Attached File |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:47:54 PM EDT
[#46]
How else are you going to make an anonymous obscene call ?
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:48:18 PM EDT
[#47]
Yes. The small town I grew up in had one booth on the street, glass and aluminum, used to call high school girls to chat them up and try for a date.
They replaced the booth in the 80s with just a pay phone on an open platform, no door, just a little metal box to keep the rain off. Couldn't hear shit for the traffic, no door to close. 
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:48:21 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Terminal at the downtown airport in Shreveport. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Has to he a museum. Terminal at the downtown airport in Shreveport.
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:49:36 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/24/2022 8:49:58 PM EDT
[#50]
The only way to make a phone call, without a party line…….
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