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Posted: 4/28/2021 7:32:34 PM EST
[#1]
Yep, call, let it ring x amount of times and hang up to get quarter back.
1 ring = mall come pick us up 2 rings = at school got busted served detention needed ride home 3 rings = mall trip turned into six flags trip, come pick us up. |
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Posted: 4/29/2021 6:20:38 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: A quarter ? I remember when it was a dime. This. Did not get my first cell phone until the mid 90s. |
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Posted: 4/29/2021 7:23:10 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You could always get the intro for the adult numbers like 1-800-WET-WILD without putting in any money. We always used to call random 800 numbers for the hell of it. 1-800 and whatever numbers we happened to hit. 90 percent of the time we got a real number, 90 percent of the real numbers were sex lines. During the big lawsuit over fuel tanks mounted outside the frame, the joke was call 1-800-GM-TRUCKS and show support for the company, they'd send you a free jacket. It was a porn line. |
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Posted: 4/29/2021 7:25:15 AM EST
[#4]
Call collect when you didn't have any money and you could get out a 1.2 second message for free.
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Posted: 4/29/2021 7:27:40 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I still remember my number. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: i use to even have an ATT calling card too  I still remember my number. Now people don't even know their own phone number, much less a card number. What happens when a guy meets a girl and they start talking? "What's your number?" I don't know, I never call myself. What's yours? I'll text you and you'll have my number." "I don't know my number either." |
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Posted: 4/29/2021 7:31:55 AM EST
[#6]
Will you accept a collect call from “pick me and Andy up at the movie theater in 20 minutes please”.
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Posted: 4/29/2021 7:33:00 AM EST
[#7]
Quote HistoryQuoted: The earpiece was always super gross. Greasy and stunk like old cheap cologne. I put catfish bait on the earpiece of the one outside my apartment building. |
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Posted: 4/29/2021 7:33:27 AM EST
[#8]
I haven’t read all six pages, but I’d be surprised if this hasn’t been posted yet.
Jenny, Jenny, who can I turn to? 867-5309 For the price of a dime I can always turn to you  Tommy Tutone - 867-5309/Jenny |
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Posted: 4/29/2021 7:42:02 AM EST
[#9]
yeah. I remember when it was a nickle. Was outraged when it went to a dime. Then they made it a quarter and I decided I'd never use a payphone again. I still did. ever hear the term "drop a dime".
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Posted: 4/29/2021 7:43:21 AM EST
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Posted: 4/29/2021 7:44:55 AM EST
[#11]
Ever stand in a long line the freezing rain with a bag of quarters at an US military base waiting for your turn to call home?
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Posted: 4/29/2021 7:46:30 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Will you accept a collect call from “pick me and Andy up at the movie theater in 20 minutes please”. Ya had to talk fast and over the operator who'd get mad at you. |
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Posted: 4/29/2021 7:52:13 AM EST
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Posted: 4/29/2021 8:13:34 AM EST
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Posted: 4/29/2021 8:37:36 AM EST
[#15]
we still have a few in our little town in Virginia, the local ILEC has them scattered around. about 8 years ago when I worked for this ILEC got a call from a tech that said he had just replaced a payphone at the corner of x and y street and needed me to program it, I had only been with the company a few months at that time so I had no clue what he was talking about.
I asked him if this was 1985? Sure enough, buried in our tech lab was a computer running Windows XP with a modem that ran one program that would accept a call from the payphone and download its config and upload a report on its daily intake of quarters. I still see payphones around so I know that there is a little Windows XP computer is still running somewhere in the bowels of the local ILEC computer room collecting stats on how many quarters the payphone has in the hopper. |
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Posted: 4/29/2021 8:55:29 AM EST
[#16]
I kept dimes taped to the inside of my duty gunbelt back when I started in 78 to make calls when I worked nights....during the day most stores would let us use the phone behind the counter
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Posted: 4/29/2021 8:57:18 AM EST
[#17]
dad had dimes taped to various spots in the truck and the car in case of a problem we could always make a call. i got in huge trouble for taking a couple dimes to buy candy or something who says spanking doesn't work? I haven't stolen anything since |
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Posted: 4/29/2021 9:29:46 AM EST
[#18]
Call collect with 10 10 220
And I'm fairly certain that's how I learned to spell COLLECT |
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Posted: 4/29/2021 9:32:58 AM EST
[#19]
I honestly dont think I have
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Posted: 4/29/2021 9:35:59 AM EST
[#20]
Yep, Gen X here. If we find an abandoned random pay phone, I'll show my 14 year old daughter and she is astounded at the primitive culture we grew up with lol.
My most distinct memory of a pay phone was driving my sorry 17 year old ass to the gas station so I could call my girlfriend who was vacationing in Traverse City, MI. I gathered all the quarters I could in a baggy and drove to the phone and spent ten minutes talking to her and missing her like hell. I was also missing the nook I'm sure. |
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Posted: 4/29/2021 9:38:27 AM EST
[#21]
lots of times
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Posted: 4/29/2021 9:38:50 AM EST
[#22]
of course
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Posted: 4/29/2021 5:50:33 PM EST
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It was a reference to AT&T's 1800 service that allowed for receiving unlimited long distance calls.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOqG7tDU4QsQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Not sure if anyone has mentioned this before in the thread, but the "pin drop" commercials were for Sprint, not AT&T. It was a reference to AT&T's 1800 service that allowed for receiving unlimited long distance calls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOqG7tDU4Qs |
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Posted: 4/29/2021 5:58:20 PM EST
[#24]
I just used one last week. My kids had no idea what a dial tone sounded like.
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Posted: 4/29/2021 6:04:04 PM EST
[#25]
"Bula Vinaka, Beachside”
10 10 321 "Will you accept a collect call from Tuscon?" "What?" "Tell him to go get his mother." Mom took that call.
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Posted: 4/29/2021 6:09:48 PM EST
[#26]
Superman changed in them all the time.
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Posted: 4/29/2021 6:12:28 PM EST
[#27]
I got my first cell phone in 2002.
I did use a pay phone regularly back in the day. |
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Posted: 4/29/2021 6:15:43 PM EST
[#28]
I know a guy that took some kind of locksmith course and could open the pay phone coin boxes. He never robbed them but he drove them nuts by taking 4 quarters out and putting in a dollar bill.
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Posted: 4/29/2021 6:17:20 PM EST
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I know a guy that took some kind of locksmith course and could open the pay phone coin boxes. He never robbed them but he drove them nuts by taking 4 quarters out and putting in a dollar bill.  |
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Posted: 4/29/2021 6:38:06 PM EST
[#30]
There are 15 payphones in my area.
They are at the RV parks, the drive in and the sit down theater, the crack house motel, one of the supermarkets and a couple of restaurants. They removed the payphone from the 7-11's in town a couple years abo. There are also a few on the State Route that runs through town and county out in the sticks. 
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Posted: 4/29/2021 6:42:40 PM EST
[#31]
"Operator, I need to make an emergency breakthrough on this phone number 213-755-9921 please..."
My mom would get pissed off when I did that to her. 
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Posted: 4/29/2021 6:58:22 PM EST
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Will you accept a collect call from "pick me and Andy up at the movie theater in 20 minutes please". |
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Posted: 4/30/2021 12:11:17 AM EST
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I know a guy that took some kind of locksmith course and could open the pay phone coin boxes. He never robbed them but he drove them nuts by taking 4 quarters out and putting in a dollar bill. The old AT&T phones had sealed numbered tags on the cash box lids. When the guy would collect the phones he'd pull the cash box out and a spring door would snap shut that could only be opened from the inside of the box that could not be opened without breaking the seal. He would then slide in a new box and take the full one back to the office to be opened and counted. That was how they prevented employees from robbing them blind. AT&T would go so far as to send managers out to create jams in phones by backing up a few quarters in the coin mechanism to see if the tech would turn them in. Bring back enough boxes with broken seals and you were terminated as they had no way of knowing what was in the phone unless it was one of the relatively few "smart phones" with a Protel board that could update the office via dialup. Former AT&T employee. |
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Posted: 4/30/2021 12:14:53 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There are 15 payphones in my area. They are at the RV parks, the drive in and the sit down theater, the crack house motel, one of the supermarkets and a couple of restaurants. They removed the payphone from the 7-11's in town a couple years abo. There are also a few on the State Route that runs through town and county out in the sticks. https://www.vaq34.com/junk/payphone_bfe.jpg Pacific Telemanagement Services had all the 7-11 phones after the big telcos abandoned the market. They removed them from all 7-11s nationwide a few years ago at 7-11s request. They drew in a criminal element to the stores and they wanted the space out front taken up by the phones for more profitable ventures. Also a former part time PTS employee. |
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Posted: 4/30/2021 12:24:07 AM EST
[#35]
I saw a bank of them in Hawaii. Some looked like they still worked.
In the early days on patrol when dispatch asked us to phone in we would just find a pay phone and dial 9-1-1. The phones needed sanitizing before touching. They always had that homeless smell. I used them quite a bit in the service and at hotels before cell phones became the norm. Somewhere near Waikiki Beach, late 2019.  Attached File |
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Posted: 4/30/2021 12:26:00 AM EST
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Eisenhower was President when I was born, so... Same here. Of course we used pay phones. |
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Posted: 4/30/2021 12:51:11 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ever stand in a long line the freezing rain with a bag of quarters at an US military base waiting for your turn to call home?
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Posted: 4/30/2021 4:47:08 AM EST
[#38]
Used them many times. Hell,we had a party line phone system until around 1980. I still have a rotary and touch tone payphone at home plus a whole bunch of parts.
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Posted: 4/30/2021 5:14:31 AM EST
[#39]
In 1993 I spent two weeks in Catania, Sicily with my Navy Reserve unit. There were pay phones in the lobby of our hotel. One took credit cards. I used my MasterCard to call a friend at home. Talked to her for an hour. They charged my card almost 100 bucks. I waited until I got home to call her again.
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Posted: 4/30/2021 5:44:59 AM EST
[#40]
I remember when it used to be a dime to use the pay phone!
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Posted: 4/30/2021 5:48:50 AM EST
[#41]
 Attached FileUP, somewhere between the Bridge and Copper Harbor few years ago. Working. Odd enough I took a pic. Kids got a kick, |
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Posted: 4/30/2021 6:07:07 AM EST
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Posted: 4/30/2021 3:04:52 PM EST
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: i use to even have an ATT calling card too I still have and use an ATT calling card |
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Posted: 4/30/2021 4:27:21 PM EST
[#44]
One night I was totally PLASTERED and called someone to pick me up at the corner of Telephone and Telephone.
He arrived in under 10 minutess. |
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Posted: 4/30/2021 4:33:06 PM EST
[#45]
There's a pay phone over by the local ghetto mart. Always seems to be some shady looking hood rat hanging around it.
 Lost his Obamafone?
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Posted: 4/30/2021 4:45:18 PM EST
[#46]
I used one in particular that had a long enough cord for me to sit in my ride and talk. Spent hours on it, dropping quarters, trying to achieve poon.
Some friends stole one, and tried everything they could to crack it, but never did. Reminded of the scene in 'Goodfellas' where Jimmy The Gent kicks over a pay phone after learning Tommy got whacked. |
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Posted: 4/30/2021 5:02:54 PM EST
[#47]
Yup, back when drop a dime meant exactly that. Still remember party lines too.
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Posted: 4/30/2021 5:05:55 PM EST
[#48]
Yup, I have!
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Posted: 4/30/2021 5:09:57 PM EST
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: A quarter ? I remember when it was a dime. Me too. |
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Posted: 4/30/2021 6:14:55 PM EST
[#50]
Yeah, 10 cents.
Carried a dime in case of emergency while we were out from dawn to dinner time on our bikes, doing real boy stuff. |
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