Do you remember using a pay phone?

Yes, right back to the rotary-dial and Pay-On-Answer system.

I think they started to be replaced (in Britain) by press-button phones, but still POA, in the early 1970s, along with the replacement of Strowger-system automatic telephone exchanges with fully-electronic versions.

Public pay-telephone kiosks still exist, but are very few and far between now, and I think all use bank cards rather than cash.


Even before them, the Royal Automobile Club and the Automobile Association had closed down their own road-side kiosk networks they had operated for decades, for their paid-up so-called "members'" emergency and breakdown use.

They still exist in some places. I saw one in Plymouth, Massachusetts outside a Convenience Store. There was a guy outside trying to beg change from people...said he had to call his drug dealer...er.....mother.

Yep.

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Absolutely. And rotary dial phones. Not smoke signals though...

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Yes, I do. We kept dimes in our loafers

Nahhhh

Yes

I loved when you would talk longer than your money took you - then hung up and the phone would ring and the operator would say you owe more money. That always struck me as funny as hell.

I didn't much, but yeah. And was thinking about songs that reference them the other day.. anachronisms now.

Yes... but, then again, it was only 7 years ago when i last used one, so not that hard to remember...

I never needed to call someone enough that I had to use one.

Yes, I do. There are few of them these days, but some do exist.

I didn't get a cellphone until 2000, so yeah

Absolutely. I remember having a pager and needing to find a pay phone to return calls from the job while on the road.

Yes. Not that long ago.

Yes, I liked them.

Yes, I sure do.

Absolutely.

Actually I do

Yup

Nope.

Yes.

Yes

Yeah

Yep

Yes