An old "Brady Bunch" episode showed the parents using 3 slot pay phones in a fancy restaurant. They were beige.
Phile the vast majority of Bell System 3 slot pay phones were black, in some places they did use colors; I've seen beige in many places.
In rare instances, 3 slot phones had Touch Tone.
Some 3 slots were "modernized" by use of a flat panel front, but it was the same phone behind it with chutes to route the coins.
Would anyone know what how common colored 3 slot pay phones were, and if any were other than beige? Also, how common were Touch Tone 3 slot phones?
I've seen single slot phones in a dark green instead of heavy gray in a few places. I think all rotary models were converted to TT.
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[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well, years ago they had colored three slot payphones with Touch Tone at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago in the telephone exhibit. They also had a beige colored speakerphone payphone thing. That is, sit on a chair in the booth, pay your ten cents, punch out the desired number and then talk to the speaker in the booth. PAT]