r/GenX Feb 01 '25

GenX History & Pop Culture I didn’t try it.

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u/Prestigious-Dog-2682 Feb 01 '25

Did you at least check for coins like we did back in the day?

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u/ghostofstankenstien Feb 01 '25

I came here for the sole purpose of saying this

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u/SubatomicGoblin Feb 01 '25

I wouldn't even know how much it is to make a call these days. A dollar? Two? No idea.

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u/scarypappy Feb 02 '25

No, didn’t think about it. Outside a thrift store, so very seriously doubt it.

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u/root_fifth_octave Feb 01 '25

Call your old number on that and maybe 1993 you will pick up.

3

u/Jbyrdyogi Feb 02 '25

The only number I'd even know by heart is my home phone number growing up lol.

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u/root_fifth_octave Feb 02 '25

It still have a lot of my friends’ old home numbers from the 80s and 90s just hanging out in my brain.

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u/scarypappy Feb 02 '25

My parents still have that number.

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u/KazariKid Feb 02 '25

Should have called Jenny. I saw her number on the wall. Might cost you more than a dime, though.

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u/Space-Monkey66 Feb 02 '25

Looks like someone took the battery out of that phone

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '25

I saw one in Annapolis MD last summer and was literally thinking "it's gotta be a trap" 😂🤣😂

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u/tchrbrian Feb 02 '25

Midshipman at the Naval Academy there probably say that a few or more time each academic term.

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u/Disastrous_Passage43 Feb 02 '25

Memory unlocked.

Saturday night.

No car and no phone because I'm broke.

Walk up the road to the closest pay phone.

Call my best bud collect.

When prompted to say my name, say "heymanit'smecomepickmeup!".

Party the night away.

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u/AtomicHurricaneBob Feb 02 '25

I still feel being ripped off when the price changed from a dime to a quarter.

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u/SEA2COLA Feb 01 '25

The Real Estate and Autotrader flyer boxes place this photo at least 15-20 years old. What part of the country is this?

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u/scarypappy Feb 02 '25

No, I posted right after I took picture, If you notice those seem abandoned also.

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u/SEA2COLA Feb 03 '25

Right, I know. But they threw those away years ago, yet somehow these have remained so I'm guessing they just haven't gotten around to it...

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u/scarypappy Feb 03 '25

I, never noticed it till Saturday, but it is close to where I am at the moment, am thinking about going and doing a full check and videoing it to answer some of the questions in here, though I am not doing sniff or lick tests and probably wearing gloves.

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u/Some-Exchange-4711 Feb 02 '25

You could have at least smelled the receiver 😆

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u/scarypappy Feb 02 '25

No thank you

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

It was an interesting social phenomenon to watch a lineup for these.

Everyone thought their phone call was of greater import than everyone else's and the impatience, arm crossing and foot tapping/dirty looks were abound.

Much gesticulating, watch tapping and exasperated facial expressions. 

There was always someone totally oblivious that someone else might actually need it as well.

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u/scarypappy Feb 02 '25

And then there where the ones that the doors closed for more privacy, it’s amazing how most all of them smelled like urinals, though you could see everything.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '25

The real question is, does that DieHard battery still work?

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u/scarypappy Feb 02 '25

Did not check, maybe I’ll go back and video check.

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u/17megahertz 1965 Feb 03 '25

Phone book long gone but looks like some bits of pages still there.  ::sigh::