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New York City Removes Last Public Pay Phone in End of an Era
- psim1 4y agoThe pay phone was my way of calling for a ride in high school and calling home when I was in college. I tested out a homemade red box on one of the phones at the high school once and got a suspicious operator on the line. The pay phone and the booth have big roles in movies I loved: Superman, War Games, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure...
- WalterGR 4y agoDidn't you have to clip a resistor in the handset or something to make a red box work? Another film comes to mind: Hackers. "It's in that place where I put that thing that time." There was a payphone installed in the vestibule of my high school.
- allears 4y agoI can still think of a lot of scenarios where a pay phone would come in handy, or even be a lifesaver. Sometimes a cell phone just isn't available, or has run out of charge, etc.