lorenzo Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 This is what we used to do when we needed to make a phone call. Its called a Phone Booth. 10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-301066460puller Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 7 minutes ago, lorenzo said: This is what we used to do when we needed to make a phone call. Its called a Phone Booth. I thought they were for time travel? Lol 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stronger800 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 Literally, I just watched Bill n Ted a few nights ago. Hadn’t seen that movie or thought of it…in 25-30 (?) years. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vtfireman85 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 2 hours ago, F-301066460puller said: I thought they were for time travel? Lol No, for Superman to change into his pajamas. 1 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-301066460puller Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 3 minutes ago, vtfireman85 said: No, for Superman to change into his pajamas. I'm not gonna tell him they are pajamas lol Clark's glasses were amazing tho! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bgriffin856 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 There's a 4way intersection 3/4 mile from our farm and there used to be a phone booth there...out in the middle of nowhere. Apparently it was for the Amish but anyone could use it 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick G. Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 When we were kids Mom always made sure we had an E D on us where ever we went. E D was Emergency Dime. …..in case we ever had to make an emergency call from a pay phone, without having to beg for help through an operator first or wait for a collect call to be OK’d. Lol 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1256pickett Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 19 minutes ago, Rick G. said: When we were kids Mom always made sure we had an E D on us where ever we went. E D was Emergency Dime. …..in case we ever had to make an emergency call from a pay phone, without having to beg for help through an operator first or wait for a collect call to be OK’d. Lol Must be I’m a little younger I remember a quarter not dime, but you still needed the quarter to get the collect call to go through then you got the quarter back. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-301066460puller Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 11 minutes ago, 1256pickett said: Must be I’m a little younger I remember a quarter not dime, but you still needed the quarter to get the collect call to go through then you got the quarter back. City dwellers lol I don't think there was a payphone in the town I grew up in, let alone a booth lol 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stronger800 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 I can vaguely remember there being a phone booth outside of the local post office but by the late 80s or early 90s it had been replaced with a payphone mounted on the wall and it was a quarter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absent Minded Farmer Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 It's a place for hanging tart cards. Mike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfred54 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 Any you guys remember or had party lines?? We had a booth outside the post office also in our small village or I should say corner, that's about all there was. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smfarms Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 We got a personal 800 # when our kids went to school so they could use the pay phones at school without money. Dropped it when last one got out of college 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazy WP Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 There’s still a functional phone booth in Hunter Kansas. Only one left that I know of. Other thing I miss is a phone book with everyone’s address!! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmall Doctor Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 The price to use the payphone in town went up about 10 years ago. Someone wrote into the paper complaining that they do all of their business with the pay phone, and the increased cost was going to cut into their profits! Haha! Gee, I wonder what kind of business they were in… 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1965Dennis Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 Show one of these pay phones hanging on the wall of that glass box to someone under about 50 and most would be unable to make a call. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete1468 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 I actually got a phone booth from a phone company about 10 years ago. I wanted to put it in the basement but once my wife saw the graffiti in it that was a no go. Off course I wanted it original as possible. So it stays in the garage. I did find a pay phone to go in it also. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
td9bcf180 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 3 hours ago, mrfred54 said: Any you guys remember or had party lines?? We had a booth outside the post office also in our small village or I should say corner, that's about all there was. Yes, we had a party line on our original crank, on the wall phone. Our # had a "long and 2 shorts" after it so that's what you picked up on. Usually a neighbor listening in on your conversations! Maybe I'm getting old to remember this. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iowaboy1965 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 4 hours ago, mrfred54 said: Any you guys remember or had party lines?? We had a booth outside the post office also in our small village or I should say corner, that's about all there was. Yes we had a party line until I was in highschool or maybe shortly after I graduated. The old neighbor lady was either on the phone when you needed to make a call or listening in every couple min to see if she could make a call. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick G. Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 12 hours ago, 1256pickett said: Must be I’m a little younger I remember a quarter not dime, but you still needed the quarter to get the collect call to go through then you got the quarter back. Yep, later at some point, a call went up to a quarter, up from a dime. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeeper61 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 8 hours ago, Farmall Doctor said: The price to use the payphone in town went up about 10 years ago. Someone wrote into the paper complaining that they do all of their business with the pay phone, and the increased cost was going to cut into their profits! Haha! Gee, I wonder what kind of business they were in… Yes they had to stop the incominhg calls to pay phones to stop the drug dealers from running their business out of them 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
td9bcf180 Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 16 minutes ago, iowaboy1965 said: Yes we had a party line until I was in highschool or maybe shortly after I graduated. The old neighbor lady was either on the phone when you needed to make a call or listening in every couple min to see if she could make a call. Story my Dad told me from his youth (he was born in the 1910's era). Listening in on the party line: an old spinster always listened in on calls to the local store (village- population maybe 50 souls). One day the store owner got sick of it when he heard the "click" on the line when she had cut in to listen. He said: "Sarah is that you?" She timidly said "Yes". He asked "you got any butter there?". Reply: "Yes". Storekeeper: " well how about greasing your a#%e and sliding off the line?" CLICK. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sledgehammer Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 I had a buddy in college who had a pay phone in his basement at home. Ran to the house line but everything worked. It may have been a little ornery but I called my Mother collect from a pay phone in StLouis on a trip we took in 8th grade just to say hello. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandhiller Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 7 hours ago, Lazy WP said: There’s still a functional phone booth in Hunter Kansas. Only one left that I know of. Other thing I miss is a phone book with everyone’s address!! I'm sure you remember these Nick Every year Mother gets the new one by her phone, I get the old one🤠 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike newman Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 19 hours ago, lorenzo said: This is what we used to do when we needed to make a phone call. Its called a Phone Booth. reminds me , Lorenzo......must pick up a new smoke blanket when Ma takes the trap into town.......We don't have one of them motor cycles,...... Mike 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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