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General Discussion & Feedback => Just Chat! => Topic started by: MDriver1981 on 13/05/2009 08:47:50
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I suppose we have officially entered into the era where payphones no longer exist. We will be telling our kids & grandkids about the days when we would put quarters into a phone. I live in Syracuse, New York and our downtown area is completely without payphones. I do remember them once existing. Also, I am a student at Syracuse University and in the huge library there are pay phone booths on every floor. The booths, however, do not have phones in them.
Also, traveling to a rental store is a thing of the past. When ever I rent movies, I simply rent them online. Remember the days when we had to remember to rewind our VHS before returning them?
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Remember the days when we had to remember to rewind our VHS before returning them?
YES.
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I found a lovely working K8 when I was on holiday recently and discovered that it wasn't listed.
I informed the 20th Century Socity about this, thinking they may put up a plaque with my name on it or something, but they didn't even reply.
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Since the introduction of the Cell Phone, there is so little need for public phone boxes.
This was the first 'mobile' phone I had-
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Lets be honest, there was very little 'mobile' about this!
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I knew someone who had one of those too! Do I know you Don? There can't have been two people with those, surely?
And Turnipsock - I'm sure that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but I don't see what is so attractive about that! And was that the precursor to the dog-shaped phone booth?
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There was at least two of us with these monstrosities. A colleague in Norfolk had the same model. It cost me £2000 + £60 connection fee and £27.50 monthly line rental!!! How times have changed.
These are the good old phone boxes:
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There was at least two of us with these monstrosities. A colleague in Norfolk had the same model. It cost me £2000 + £60 connection fee and £27.50 monthly line rental!!! How times have changed.
Sorry - can't resist. "There WERE at least ..." FOG
I bet there was a fair whack spent on spinal correction with lugging around all that weight! I like the scene in Pretty Women where Richard Gere is using a "mobile" - it's not quite as large as that but so easy to forget how quickly the technology has moved on.
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Yikes!!! Grandma will be turning in her grave!!!
You should have seen my first calculator, it was called Colossus
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Opps, wrong Colossus, try again
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I remember those things! The place where I worked after school (the vet) had one with BT Cellnet. It was ma-hooo-sive!
There are still some payphones near Oxford Circus (London) - I found them one day when I left my mobile at home. BT say they're not removing them as such, they're just not replacing or repairing them as they break/are destroyed by vandals.
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Lots of the South-Cambridgeshire villages still have their traditional red phone boxes ... though maybe not for much longer. BT is no-longer accepting coins in many of them.
Someone round the corner from where I used to live in Horley in Surrey had a red phone box in his front garden!
I only use phone boxes these days when I need to call 0800 freefone numbers as otherwise they cost 25p/min from my mobile!