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Have you ever used a phone booth?


They were already an endangered species by the time of my earliest memories, but there was one in my hometown until I was about 7 or 8 years old (early 1980s), located downtown in an alley. I never used its payphone, but I did go inside it once when I got caught in a downpour, like this [presumably] British guy did:

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2C2CD6J/a-man-shelters-from-heavy-rain-inside-a-phone-box-in-london-as-violent-thunderstorms-swept-across-the-north-of-england-and-scotland-causing-flash-flooding-in-places-2C2CD6J.jpg

Being inside a phone booth in the pouring rain is awesome, by the way.

In the late 1990s I was living in a town that had a bowling alley with an old-fashioned indoor Western Electric wooden phone booth, like this:

https://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=13267.0

I loved that thing, and used it all the time to call my girlfriend. The owner of the bowling alley occasionally bitched about how much time I was spending in there (even when no one was waiting to use it), but the payphone allowed unlimited time for a quarter (local calls). Then the jackass burned the whole place down to collect insurance money, so that was the end of that. Well, that was never proven, but everyone believed he did it. He was shady as the day is long. I haven't encountered a phone booth since then.

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One time in college in 2010 when I got locked out of my dorm without my cell phone.

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You found a phone booth (a real one that you enter and close the door) in 2010?

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At rhe University I work for, there's one Southwestern Bell Pay Phone in the lobby of the student library and it does have a dial tone and cost 50 cents to make a call.. Not sure if anyone honestly uses it but it's there.. No Phone Booth though for Keifer Sutherland to make calls to me while dragging my life through the gutter like he did with Colin Farrell in "PHONE BOOTH"

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That was a surprisingly good movie IMO.

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I have it on Blu Ray.. Glad there was never a sequel made.. One of kind movie

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Only when I need to quickly change into my cape and tights.

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Yeah they still had proper ones when I was young with 3 walls and a door. You were fully enclosed than they started to omit the door altogether and the walls became half petitions. It was mostly due to vandalism.

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Many times

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