New York City staged an event last week to celebrate the removal of its last pay phone...though there are apparently a few more out there.
But, it is an interesting moment in time. Before mobile, this was our lifeline. When I was in college, it was the only way to call home...and because of the cost, those calls happened monthly. For the more inventive among us, some recorded the electronic tones of a connection and played them back to fool the pay phone into thinking that correct change had been inserted.
There was a pretty cool movie that centered around a pay phone that starred Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker and Colin Ferrell called, naturally, "Phone Booth."
How many years before viewers are totally dumbfounded by the concept? Or...is that now?
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