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Posted by Devil Dawg on Friday, October 13, 2017 8:11 PM

Retired In Kalifornia

 

 
Toshi

 

 
Retired In Kalifornia

The last time - and likely the last time - I'd used a public pay phone was around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 28, 2011; the precision remains memorial...

 

 

 

Isn’t that just a miracle in of itself!  

 

Toshi

 

 

 

Sure was, didn't have a cell phone then! Do remember making Operator Assisted calls in 1960s, 911 wasn't active then either.

 

 

 

You wouldn't beleive where 911 was first created.  Haleyville, Alabama.... Whoda thunk?

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Posted by Phil_H on Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:48 PM

In Australia, our government, in all its wisdom is replacing the entire nation's telephone network with an internet based system, laughingly called the NBN (National Broadband Network). We have no option, we will be forced to change over.

This means that eventually, every landline phone in Australia will be connected via a modem, which of course will require power. So in the event of a power outage, we will also lose the phones. Great huh?

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Posted by ugamodels on Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:44 PM

When we moved and got a new phone number,  I tried to get PA6-5000 but it was not in the available pool.

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fox
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Posted by fox on Thursday, October 12, 2017 9:23 PM

My number back in the '50s was Madison 3. 

When my mother passed a few years ago, we found a good sized box full of Green Stamps in the attic all put into the books. No telling what they would have been worth when they were popular. 

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Posted by littletimmy on Thursday, October 12, 2017 7:30 PM

Little Timmy's home # 503- 357-8962 ( this was in Dilly Or. around 1968)

How I remembered this I have no idea.

We were on a party line with 4 other neighbor's. ( I use to get in sooooo much trouble for listening in and "BURPING" on the line.)

Yea... I remember S&H Green stamps. My grandpa had a barrel full of em. He use to redeem them for all kind's of stuff.When he passed in 2004 we found around 6000 of them in his shop. Why he was still hanging on to them .....we will never know. I dont think they were any good after about 1980.

 Dont worry about the thumbprint, paint it Rust , and call it "Battle Damage"

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Posted by plasticjunkie on Thursday, October 12, 2017 6:59 PM

Here's another blast from the past, S&H Green Stamps. Got them at the grocery store as a reward program depending how much one spent and could be redeemed at the S&H Gift Center. Lots of cool stuff my mom got for the house back in the 60's.

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Posted by Jim Barton on Thursday, October 12, 2017 6:21 PM

Toshi

 

 
Cadet Chuck

Our home number in 1945 was Jackson 7613.  Why do we remember things like that???

 

 

 

I can’t answer that but my home phone and address of where I grew up is 1913 A Date Street Honolulu, Hawaii 96814.  808-949-1709.  Incredible isn’t it, how the brain works!  This was 1970.  I’m operating with an injured brain frontal lobe, I can’t remember what I did yesterday yet I can remember everything pre-accident.  lol!

 

Toshi

 

I grew up in a suburb of Los Angeles and our phone number was 213-790-6693.

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Posted by Toshi on Thursday, October 12, 2017 10:03 AM

To my fellow forum members,

Thank you for sharing your memories here!  This is so interesting, it’s really about history.

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Posted by Toshi on Thursday, October 12, 2017 10:01 AM

That is one beautiful piece of hardware!

Toshi

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Posted by Toshi on Thursday, October 12, 2017 10:00 AM

Cadet Chuck

Our home number in 1945 was Jackson 7613.  Why do we remember things like that???

 

I can’t answer that but my home phone and address of where I grew up is 1913 A Date Street Honolulu, Hawaii 96814.  808-949-1709.  Incredible isn’t it, how the brain works!  This was 1970.  I’m operating with an injured brain frontal lobe, I can’t remember what I did yesterday yet I can remember everything pre-accident.  lol!

Toshi

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Posted by Cadet Chuck on Thursday, October 12, 2017 8:53 AM

Our home number in 1945 was Jackson 7613.  Why do we remember things like that???

Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...

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Posted by humper491 on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 10:22 PM

On the rare occasion, i would see one in a truck stop and very rare in a rest area. I'll be back on the road in a month or two (most of ya know about my arm injury this year) but i'll update on this. Heck, when i had surgery in January, the hospital made sure my daughter had a cell phone in case she had to make a call...

 

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Posted by GlennH on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 10:22 PM

Remember a party line as a kid. I also remember this big scare that if you added another phone by yourself the phone company could find out some how and get you in huge trouble.

My cell? Had since the huge bag phones first came out and I never use it from home. Landline. Not putting people through what they put me through using the cells.

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Posted by plasticjunkie on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 10:22 PM

Was gonna mention party lines but someone beat me to it. Here's another...who remembers the phone numbers with names like Franklin 7 and so on? I remember our house phone number in 1965 or 66 starting with that.

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Posted by littletimmy on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 9:30 PM

We have one in front of the Food City grocerystore. $1.50 for International call's..... which is kind of odd...... because Mexico is just 10 block's away.

 Dont worry about the thumbprint, paint it Rust , and call it "Battle Damage"

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Posted by Cadet Chuck on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 8:40 PM

Hey, Fox, you are not alone!  I hate cell phones too, especially the so-called "smart phones" with people constantly playing with them, poking the buttons no matter where they are or what they are doing.  

Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...

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Posted by Toshi on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 3:10 PM

What great stories out there.  Thank you all for your memories!

Toshi

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Posted by fox on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 2:08 PM

The wife and I took a six week RV trip across the country and saw a few of them but can't remember just where. Sad to say that most of them were vandalized. One of them had the Card slot but someone had done a good job of jamming the slot full of junk.

When I lived in So. Phila in the '40s and W. Phila. in the '50s, we had party lines. Some were fun.

Don't even own a cell phone. Never have and never will. I feel the same as I always have. Don't care to be bothered while at work or driving. That's the way it was back then. If you NEEDED to call anyone, you waited till you got home. Sorry for the little rant. Hit a nerve. Hate cellphones.

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Posted by scottrc on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 11:20 AM

We have one at work.  I had to use one last month at the Denver airport becasue my cell was dead.  It looked the same except it had a credit card slot.  $1.50 just to initiate the call.

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Posted by Gamera on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 11:14 AM

Retired In Kalifornia

 

 
damouav

LOL!

Down a dark alley?

 

 

 

Harvey Weinstein knows...

 

 

 

LOL, not EVEN going there..... Zip it!

 

Oh gosh, I remember party lines. Some woman was always hogging the phone and I remember  mom complaining about it! 

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Posted by Tanker - Builder on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 10:46 AM

Hi Toshi ;

     I have to say , you certainly found a rare one . I think the last time I saw one was in San Francisco years ago .  T.B.

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Posted by Don Stauffer on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 8:34 AM

Haven't seen a payphone in a long time, but I do keep a non-electronic carbon button mike phone, with rotary mechanical-electrical dial hooked up a home.  With it I can still call call the electric company to report a power failure, as long as my phone exchange still has power.  I know they used to have batteries- don't know what they use for backup power now.

 

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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Posted by Cadet Chuck on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 8:24 AM

When I was a kid, back in the 40's, no phones had a dial, and all calls, even local, were operator assisted.  Imagine that!

Gimme a pigfoot, and a bottle of beer...

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Posted by damouav on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 7:51 AM

LOL!

Down a dark alley?

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Posted by Gamera on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 7:44 AM

Without phone booths where will Clark Kent change into Superman!?! 

 

I haven't seen any of the recent movies so I assume they've found some way to deal with this. 

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Posted by Toshi on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 3:00 AM

The ubiquitous tangled phone line.  lol!

Toshi

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Posted by Toshi on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 2:56 AM

And the days of the wrong number dialed In.

Toshi

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Posted by Toshi on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 2:53 AM

Toshi

 

 
Retired In Kalifornia

 

 

 
Retired In Kalifornia

The last time - and likely the last time - I'd used a public pay phone was around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 28, 2011; the precision remains memorial...

 

 

 

Isn’t that just a miracle in of itself!  

 

Toshi

 

 

 

Sure was, didn't have a cell phone then! Do remember making Operator Assisted calls in 1960s, 911 wasn't active then either.

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, operated assisted calls.  I definitely remember that!

Toshi

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Married to the most caring, loving, understanding, and beautiful wife in the world.  Mrs. Toshi

 

 

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Posted by Toshi on Wednesday, October 11, 2017 2:52 AM

Retired In Kalifornia

 

 

 
Retired In Kalifornia

The last time - and likely the last time - I'd used a public pay phone was around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 28, 2011; the precision remains memorial...

 

 

 

Isn’t that just a miracle in of itself!  

 

Toshi

 

 

 

Sure was, didn't have a cell phone then! Do remember making Operator Assisted calls in 1960s, 911 wasn't active then either.

 

 

On The Bench: Revell 1/48 B-25 Mitchell

 

Married to the most caring, loving, understanding, and beautiful wife in the world.  Mrs. Toshi

 

 

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