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.
