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no_hypocrisy

(46,119 posts) Mon Mar 26, 2012, 08:12 AM Mar 2012

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A good pay phone is hard to find

The pay phone — that quaint-looking device with a receiver and a slot for coins — is fast disappearing. Or were you too busy staring at your Droid to have noticed?

Don’t look for a pay phone on Route 4. None of the highway’s 22 gas stations has one.

Don’t feed quarters into any of the five phones in the entryway of Hackensack’s Coach House diner. They’ve been disconnected.

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http://www.northjersey.com/news/business/tech_news/A_good_pay_phone_is_hard_to_find.html

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A good pay phone is hard to find (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Mar 2012 OP

You mean one of these? dynasaw Mar 2012 #1

Pay phones began disappearing even before cell phones were so predominant. DebJ Mar 2012 #2

Here is another interesting (a little older) article on this subject. unapatriciated Mar 2012 #3

Another way to disenfranchise the poor. n/t bluedigger Mar 2012 #4

Fuck that - ANY pay phone is hard to find! HopeHoops Mar 2012 #5

There are banks of pay phones at MSP international airport. geardaddy Mar 2012 #6

Pay phones are easy to find at an airport av8rdave Mar 2012 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author dynasaw Mar 2012 #8

What Would Clark Kent/Super Man Do Today? dynasaw Mar 2012 #8

It's a plot so that we cannot exit the matrix Duer 157099 Mar 2012 #10

dynasaw

(998 posts)

1. You mean one of these?

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Mon Mar 26, 2012, 08:24 AM

Mar 2012

DebJ

(7,699 posts)

2. Pay phones began disappearing even before cell phones were so predominant.

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Mon Mar 26, 2012, 08:56 AM

Mar 2012

About 15 years ago in Maryland, I was searching in vain for one.
Turns out they were disappearing because drug dealers used them.

unapatriciated

(5,390 posts)

3. Here is another interesting (a little older) article on this subject.

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Mon Mar 26, 2012, 09:08 AM

Mar 2012

http://jscms.jrn.columbia.edu/cns/2009-04-28/cheng-payphones.html

bluedigger

(17,086 posts)

4. Another way to disenfranchise the poor. n/t

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Mon Mar 26, 2012, 09:18 AM

Mar 2012

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

5. Fuck that - ANY pay phone is hard to find!

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Mon Mar 26, 2012, 10:03 AM

Mar 2012

geardaddy

(24,931 posts)

6. There are banks of pay phones at MSP international airport.

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Mon Mar 26, 2012, 10:35 AM

Mar 2012

and they work!

av8rdave

(10,573 posts)

7. Pay phones are easy to find at an airport

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Mon Mar 26, 2012, 11:16 AM

Mar 2012

Just look for the biggest, loudest public address speakers (usually mounted in the ceiling). The pay phones will be right below them.

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dynasaw

(998 posts)

8. What Would Clark Kent/Super Man Do Today?

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Mon Mar 26, 2012, 11:41 AM

Mar 2012

Duer 157099

(17,742 posts)

10. It's a plot so that we cannot exit the matrix

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Mon Mar 26, 2012, 11:44 AM

Mar 2012

bastards

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