pay phones

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Have You Ever Made a Call From a Telephone Booth?

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 21 Dec 15

A telephone booth is something that you rarely see anymore in the U.S. I guess there are still a few around. You will give away your age, if you remember the unmistakable sound of the coins dropping after completing a call and...

telephone booths

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Don't take away the pay phones!

speakeasy @speakeasy (4171) • United States 15 Mar 11

If you are like me, you rarely pay attention to whether or not there is a pay phone nearby when you go places. But, over the past few years, I have noticed that there seem to be fewer and fewer of them and a couple of years...

natural disasters

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Do You still use the public phone....?B

saktiyp @saktiyp (53) • Indonesia 27 Mar 09

Several decade ago many peoples use public phone, this phone very cheap and affordable so many peoples use it, But now mobile phone is popular to use an many people already do not use anymore. Now almost people use mobile phone....

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If you were passing a public pay phone and it started ringing...

marina321 @marina321 (4556) 2 Mar 09

would you pick the phone up? 'Phone Booth' was shown on TV tonight and I re-watched it, it is basically a film about a PR agent who picks up a public phone that was ringing and is told by the caller (who has...

phone booth the movie

using payphones

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If someone were to ask you where the nearest payphone was, would you be able to

Rocketj1 @rocketj1 (6955) • United States 4 Nov 08

tell them? I recently started a discussion about rotary phones. Most everyone agreed that it had been YEARS since we had used or even seen one. Well, what about pay phones? Do you have any in your city or area anymore?...

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Coin Returns

Modestah @Modestah (11177) • United States 29 Apr 07

I just watched a movie titled "My John Doe" and in it the character is giving a speech about the average Joe and how important he is, and just who he is... he mentions that the Average Joe is the fellow who walks by the newspaper...

vending machines

vending machines

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Do you ever use a pay phone anymore?

Script @Script (592) • Australia 17 Dec 06

When was the last time you used a Pay Phone? Do you not use pay phones anymore because mobile phones are more convenient?

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