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Posted: 8/24/2022 11:21:09 PM EDT
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Last time I used a phone booth with door was early to mid 80s I would say
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Posted: 8/24/2022 11:24:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Payphones? Psshh. We used to have milk machines in the NYC projects in the 60's & 70's where I grew up. https://www.thevintageposter.com/Art_Images/Medium/13990.jpg Ok, I gotta ask, wtf is a milk machine??? |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 11:25:37 PM EDT
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There’s two pay phone booths within 5 blocks of my workplace. As of a couple weeks ago, one of them had a working handset with a dial tone.
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Posted: 8/24/2022 11:27:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Remember checking the coin return slot and finding change? Hell yea! |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 11:31:01 PM EDT
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Yes. Closed door (because it's too noisy otherwise).
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Posted: 8/24/2022 11:35:27 PM EDT
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When I was in my early twenties (1970's), I traveled for a job. When I got to the town I worked in, I would call home collect for myself from a pay phone booth. My wife would say, "He is not here", and I was able to notify her that I got there safely for free!
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Posted: 8/24/2022 11:38:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ok, I gotta ask, wtf is a milk machine??? @Tiempos_Peligrosos It's like a soda machine, only it's filled with milk cartons (qt.), sometimes they had chocolate milk. I remember it costing about 35 cents These machines were scattered thoughout the confines on the NYC housing developments (projects) and placed near the benches where the yentas (Yiddish for busybody) would all sit. 
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Posted: 8/24/2022 11:40:01 PM EDT
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Yes, at least 20 years.
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Posted: 8/24/2022 11:41:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @Tiempos_Peligrosos It's like a soda machine, only it's filled with milk cartons (qt.), sometimes they had chocolate milk. I remember it costing about 35 cents These machines were scattered thoughout the confines on the NYC housing developments (projects) and placed near the benches where the yentas (Yiddish for busybody) would all sit. https://images.fineartamerica.com/images-medium-large/milk-vending-machine-paul-ward.jpg LOL hoooly shit! I bet not one out of 87 folks has ever heard of that!!! |
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Posted: 8/24/2022 11:41:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Payphones? Psshh. We used to have milk machines in the NYC projects in the 60's & 70's where I grew up. https://www.thevintageposter.com/Art_Images/Medium/13990.jpg 
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Posted: 8/25/2022 12:20:17 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/25/2022 12:22:34 AM EDT
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The phone company did a better job of coverage than these lefties and the EV car chargers could ever do. Plus they had a chained up yellow pages book.
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Posted: 8/25/2022 12:23:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Remember the soda machines where the paper cup dropped, filled with ice and then the drink you selected filled it up? I do. Ugh, the watery hot chocolate machines... 
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Posted: 8/25/2022 12:39:37 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Remember the soda machines where the paper cup dropped, filled with ice and then the drink you selected filled it up? I do. Yep, and sometimes they wouldn't land right. You'd have to get it lined up real quick, or end up only having soda on your hands. 
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Posted: 8/25/2022 2:24:40 AM EDT
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I have used phone booths with wooden doors
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Posted: 8/25/2022 2:32:20 AM EDT
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Yes, as a proud boomer I also remember the milkman, the bakery truck, the filler brush man, door to door en y lopedia salesman, the electric trolley system in Los Angeles, eight track tape players and hauling hose and saw gas on fires with World War II plywood frame packs..
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Posted: 8/25/2022 2:34:22 AM EDT
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I used pay phones in my Younger years, I don't ever recall an actual phone booth though.
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Posted: 8/25/2022 2:55:16 AM EDT
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There was a phone booth attached to the fire station up the street from me that i used in the 70s and 80s. Only cost a dime but i think jumped to a quarter at some point. Those aluminum bi fold doors would come of the track and be annoying as hell.
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Posted: 8/25/2022 3:31:14 AM EDT
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Yes. Decades ago
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Posted: 8/25/2022 3:46:31 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sure. All the time back before cell phones. |
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Posted: 8/25/2022 3:50:25 AM EDT
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When I was a tweenager, the local dance hall had one inside. It was the easiest way to call home to get a ride. Being a dance hall, it was too loud to make a call with the door open.
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Posted: 8/25/2022 3:54:04 AM EDT
[#22]
Yes, early 80's
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Posted: 8/25/2022 4:02:13 AM EDT
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I've never seen one in the wild. Plenty of pay phones but they were always in the open cabinet things. Closest I remember are cubicle-like with a bench seat, but still open.
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Posted: 8/25/2022 4:33:10 AM EDT
[#24]
Probably 40 or 50 years ago.
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Posted: 8/25/2022 4:35:06 AM EDT
[#25]
Early 2000s for the law time I guess.
In the 80s for the 1st time |
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Posted: 8/25/2022 4:35:36 AM EDT
[#26]
Gotta be 40 years
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Posted: 8/25/2022 4:37:14 AM EDT
[#27]
Does Superman shit on the pope (in the woods)?
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Posted: 8/25/2022 4:37:37 AM EDT
[#28]
Yes, and they were hotter than fuck In Phoenix in the summer with the doors shut!
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Posted: 8/25/2022 5:42:36 AM EDT
[#29]
It's been decades since I last used one.
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Posted: 8/25/2022 5:54:21 AM EDT
[#30]
A very very long time ago
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Posted: 8/25/2022 5:57:37 AM EDT
[#31]
Yes and no for most you wouldn’t want to close the door because of their dual purpose use in the UK
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Posted: 8/25/2022 6:03:53 AM EDT
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London still has them. Just for novelty as they seem to only be used for tourists to take photos in front of and bums to urinate in.
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Posted: 8/25/2022 6:13:35 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/25/2022 6:24:18 AM EDT
[#34]
Yes.
Last time was '92 in basic. |
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Posted: 8/25/2022 6:29:52 AM EDT
[#35]
Always closed the door.
Haven't you people seen 'The Birds'? |
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Posted: 8/25/2022 6:31:50 AM EDT
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Quoted: Have you ever used a phone booth with a door? If so, how long ago was that? |
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Posted: 8/25/2022 6:34:05 AM EDT
[#37]
Yes.
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Posted: 8/25/2022 6:49:51 AM EDT
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I remember getting off a plane and running to a pay phone to call the office first thing. At one time there were company phone cards to charge calls and also the drive-up booths and pagers. If I recall, you could also charge calls to your home phone but it was a pain in the neck to figure it out.
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Posted: 8/25/2022 6:51:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hell yeah. I'm old though.  |
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Posted: 8/25/2022 6:57:49 AM EDT
[#40]
 The Blues Brothers Flame Up The Phone Booth |
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Posted: 8/25/2022 7:07:00 AM EDT
[#41]
Have you ever used a phone booth with a door?
Yep. I could bang nickels too. One of my father’s friends could do it with pennies, but I was never that good. As to the door: depended whether it was summer or winter. |
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Posted: 8/25/2022 7:09:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The phone company did a better job of coverage than these lefties and the EV car chargers could ever do. Plus they had a chained up yellow pages book. But you could always rip the page out if you didn’t want to write down the address
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Posted: 8/25/2022 7:23:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The light won't come on if you don't shut the door. At least that's what I remember from the movies. Correct. That made me remember. I was TDY in Petersburg, VA in a cheap apartment on Jefferson Davis Highway. Early 1970's. No phone in apt. No cell phone, of course, so I had to use Phone Booth right on the side of road. It was late, dark. I got in phone booth and needed light so I closed the door. The handset was dangling by its cord. Two things became apparent: The floor was covered with what looked like dried or drying blood and there were blood smears elsewhere, AND two panels of glass were blown out on ONE SIDE only. Standing under the bright phone booth light on a dark roadside seemed like a bad idea, so I quickly completed the call with the door open, light off! |
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Posted: 8/25/2022 7:34:16 AM EDT
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There were banks of phone booths with doors in boot camp. Not enough room in the shop for an old school full phone booth so I went free standing.
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Posted: 8/25/2022 7:52:45 AM EDT
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I'll up ya all on this one. The old phones with the quarter/dime/nickle slots in them. Cut a piece of the phone book
cover length ways about 3/4 of inch wide. You need one side to be straight. Shove it down the dime slot, drop a penny in the nickle slot and pull up at the jimmy and you would get a dial tone. To put shit in perspective, 50 years ago a dime was not as easy to come by as penny when you are teen. In before, "go be poor somewhere else" |
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Posted: 8/25/2022 8:17:23 AM EDT
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Everything old is new again. My daughter works in a We work office that has phone booths at the end of the hallway.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=wework+phone+booth&atb=v269-1&iax=images&ia=images |
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Posted: 8/25/2022 9:21:02 AM EDT
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I lived my life in pay phone booths. Anywhere near the docks. 1980's until Digital Cellular made it obsolete, late 90's.
US Sprint calling cards (remember the pin drop?). Conigen, anyone? Phreaking, red-boxing, black-boxing. Spoofing COCOT's. A little Radio Shack pocket dialer and a quartz chip from Digikey... Or the chip out of a recordable Hallmark Card, that recorded the sounds of quarters dropping? Beep-a-deep-a-deep! Drop a 2 or a 4 and the call gets forwarded to the Ma Bell Fraud division. My favorite phone booths were the ones at the Hotel Mac in Port Richmond, CA. Mahogany booths, velvet curtains, and a waitress who would deliver beers right into the booth... Fun times! |
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Posted: 8/25/2022 10:37:53 AM EDT
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I ran a training evolution with the DFW airport SWAT and there was, at least in 2008ish, a terminal that was abandoned which they used for training. Kind of a time machine experience and there were pay phones everywhere. IIRC most were were the wall mounted ones but there were a few banks of booths in the hallways. Strange to see that…..
As for phone booths we still have a few around here, mainly outside a couple gas stations where the horse-n-buggy Mennonites go to make calls. |
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Posted: 8/25/2022 10:39:21 AM EDT
[#49]
Now that I think about it, I don't think so. Used payphones, but they weren't in booths with doors. Seen them, though.
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Posted: 8/25/2022 10:43:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Didn't they take out the last pay phone in Manhattan last year? Naw, still a couple here and there. This one even has a dial tone. No door, though. 100 st and west end ave.  Attached File |
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