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Never mind, what I want to know is who gave him the dimes to make a call and where does he carry them?
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It's hard to remember the last call I made on a payphone, maybe it was in NYC, and it needed quarters not dimes.
But I do remember the call before that, when I placed a call from a crank pay phone in Onego, West Virginia, around 1975. (Onego is pronounced 1 go.) As I recall, there was a 6V battery connected to the phone, and a magneto crank to ring the operator. The red, glassed in, phone booth had a floor. Why do I remember this? Because my "buddies" picked up the pay phone with me in it while I was trying to place a call. And yes, that battery and myself went careening about in the phone booth. Must have been one of the few remaining crank pay telephone booths in service. Never seen one before, or since.
But I do remember the call before that, when I placed a call from a crank pay phone in Onego, West Virginia, around 1975. (Onego is pronounced 1 go.) As I recall, there was a 6V battery connected to the phone, and a magneto crank to ring the operator. The red, glassed in, phone booth had a floor. Why do I remember this? Because my "buddies" picked up the pay phone with me in it while I was trying to place a call. And yes, that battery and myself went careening about in the phone booth. Must have been one of the few remaining crank pay telephone booths in service. Never seen one before, or since.
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Remember those 3rd. Party pay phones that charged you like $2 to call down the road, then would call you back when you hung up telling you that you owed $5 more.
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Back in '73, I hiked down to the Colorado River on the Bright Angel Trail. I stayed down there for two nights and hiked back out via the Kaibab Trail. Half way up, there was a telephone booth, with, iirc, a pay phone. I made a collect call to my then gf. Not the last time I used a pay phone, but certainly the most memorable.
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We went the opposite direction... we hiked down the South Kaibab trail and out by the Bright Angel trail... took 3 days to hike it. That was in 1988...
I don't remember a phone booth... but I was 15 years old at the time. That's been a couple of weeks ago...
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