Pay phone nostalgia [telecom]

I last flew in and out of Atlanta's airport in 2005. I pointed out something to my son and I still find it amazing. When I lived in Atlanta (1987-1992) it seemed every bare section of wall in the various concourses had pay phones. I would love to know how many Southern Bell had crammed in there. Even more amazingly I found myself at times having to wait for a phone to become available to make a call. In 2005 every phone was gone. If there were any pay phones I couldn't find them. I couldn't even tell they had even existed.

Lately around Austin I've made it a point to search for pay phones. I have been in malls, airports, supermarkets, and hospitals and haven't seen any.

To make this a worthwhile post and not the ramblings of a telephone geek with insomnia I found this page to be interesting:

It appears there are at least a few pay phones still out in the wild.

John

- - John Mayson

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Telephone geek? Insomnia? Remind you of anyone? ;-)

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Posted 5 years ago by John Mayson in General Telecommunications Forum

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