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Getting ready to run some Christmas errands. Was eating a little breakfast before I leave and was doing some channel surfing. Came across Ocean’s Eleven. George Clooney is talking on a pay phone and in the background is the trump plaza. That doesn’t exist anymore does it?
 
Patb78 said:
Getting ready to run some Christmas errands. Was eating a little breakfast before I leave and was doing some channel surfing. Came across Ocean’s Eleven. George Clooney is talking on a pay phone and in the background is the trump plaza. That doesn’t exist anymore does it?
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I’m pretty sure George Clooney is still alive.

You’d have to work hard to find a pay phone.

Trump Plaza in AC, like everything else Trump touches, is dead.
 
SnoopRob said:
I’m pretty sure George Clooney is still alive.

You’d have to work hard to find a pay phone.

Trump Plaza in AC, like everything else Trump touches, is dead.
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I was just thinking about pay phones yesterday and wondered about their existence. They used to be ubiquitous. You would see them along city streets. Virtually every move theater had one (remember when we had a lot of movie theaters?). There was a big station of pay phones in SouthPark Mall in Charlotte.

I remember in high school my parents would tell me to always let them know where I was when I was out. I remember seeking out pay phones to keep them updated. I remember a time where I didn’t report my whereabouts and when I got home they yelled at me about it. The excuse I gave them was that I could not find a pay phone. They called BS and told me there was no way I couldn’t find a pay phone.
 
We had a pay phone on the 2nd floor of my fraternity house at UNC. Everyone would use it to make their once a week call (collect) home.
 
Icky Mettle said:
I was just thinking about pay phones yesterday and wondered about their existence. They used to be ubiquitous. You would see them along city streets. Virtually every move theater had one (remember when we had a lot of movie theaters?). There was a big station of pay phones in SouthPark Mall in Charlotte.

I remember in high school my parents would tell me to always let them know where I was when I was out. I remember seeking out pay phones to keep them updated. I remember a time where I didn’t report my whereabouts and when I got home they yelled at me about it. The excuse I gave them was that I could not find a pay phone. They called BS and told me there was no way I couldn’t find a pay phone.
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When I moved to Berkeley in 2007, my new landlord owned a number of pay phones. He was responsible for ensuring that the phones remained functional (both service and maintenance) and he got to collect and keep all the money generated.

By the time we moved away at the end of 2011, he was no longer repairing/replacing phones when they would break/get damaged and would simply remove them at that point. He had come to the conclusion that expected future revenue was longer greater than the cost of repair in most circumstances. (A lot of his phones weren't in great neighborhoods, which meant that fewer folks had functional cell phones but also that they got damaged more often.)
 
Patb78 said:
Getting ready to run some Christmas errands. Was eating a little breakfast before I leave and was doing some channel surfing. Came across Ocean’s Eleven. George Clooney is talking on a pay phone and in the background is the trump plaza. That doesn’t exist anymore does it?
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I remember the huge banks of pay phones in airports. Every time a plane would land, all the businessmen would rush off the plane to the phones to check their messages before heading to the car rentals. Then spend an hour or so in the hotel room returning calls from those messages.
 
Icky Mettle said:
I was just thinking about pay phones yesterday and wondered about their existence. They used to be ubiquitous. You would see them along city streets. Virtually every move theater had one (remember when we had a lot of movie theaters?). There was a big station of pay phones in SouthPark Mall in Charlotte.

I remember in high school my parents would tell me to always let them know where I was when I was out. I remember seeking out pay phones to keep them updated. I remember a time where I didn’t report my whereabouts and when I got home they yelled at me about it. The excuse I gave them was that I could not find a pay phone. They called BS and told me there was no way I couldn’t find a pay phone.
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Now parents have GPS trackers on their kids.
 
I posted this before on either here or IC so my apologies if you already saw it. But something about it is really gratifying.

 
farce© said:
I remember the huge banks of pay phones in airports. Every time a plane would land, all the businessmen would rush off the plane to the phones to check their messages before heading to the car rentals. Then spend an hour or so in the hotel room returning calls from those messages.
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“Pay phones all were ringing as the crowd went roaring by.” - Distantly in Love by Jimmy Buffett
 
So 50-60 years ago the University ran all the utilities in CH-including the pay phones
You could literaly click out the number on the silver thingy that held the phone and avoid paying
In addition frequently you could hear WCHL in the background when you were on the phone
 
mpaer said:
So 50-60 years ago the University ran all the utilities in CH-including the pay phones
You could literaly click out the number on the silver thingy that held the phone and avoid paying
In addition frequently you could hear WCHL in the background when you were on the phone.
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In the ‘70’s, you could also call a phone number (not the primary number) at WCHL on Sunday evenings and it was a party line. Lots of area teenagers my brothers age were on it.
 
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