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Post by Feologild Oakes on Sept 29, 2021 15:00:44 GMT
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Post by stefancrosscoe on Sept 29, 2021 15:19:32 GMT
I actually saw one pictured in the behind scenery (from a footage of the yesterdays news/Dagsrevyen) at NRK. But forgot which town/place it was taken from. However, the last time I used a phone booth? Well, the classic red ones, I think began to disappear fastly, around the early 00s, mostly because they were often damaged or people had just destroyed them too much, and I guess by then, most people would rather use the mobile phones. However, I did use one of the smaller (without roof/walls) around it, then ones located at the subway stations, and that was around 2009, and at Nationatheateret in Oslo. I remember it, because at the same moment, while I was waiting for the one I called to pick up the phone, I was unwrapping a CD I had ordered from a local music store, and it was a remastered copy (2009 edition) of Thomas Dolby and his The Golden Age of Wireless (1982). My uncle had a few nice and funny old books with these huge airplane images of certain parts of the fast growing locations (drabantbyer) in Oslo from the 50s and 60s, and where an old picture of the early days of Skullerud/Bogerud, where mostly just consisting of mud, more mud and a red telephone booth. Back in the late 90s, when we were teenagers, we soon learned how to call for free, but you only got around 15-20 seconds, then the commercial or some voice would arrive, and then you got anoter 10-15 seconds to talk. It actually worked pretty well, but not for longer chats, just to call up and decide were to meet up later that day. Of course, the way of free-calling for about 10-15 seconds (or less/more) was also surely a pretty good/annoying way, for those making prank calls. However, I actually heard about one kid at my school, who did so much prank calls from a red phone booth, that the police managed to track him down, and he was still inside the booth, when they arrived and yeah, that was a sight I would have loved to behold.
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Post by Catman 猫的主人 on Sept 29, 2021 15:37:59 GMT
Probably 1973.
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Post by Ass_E9 on Sept 29, 2021 15:42:01 GMT
"I don't know. They're so hard to find, I'll even use a Porta-Potty these days."
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Post by politicidal on Sept 29, 2021 16:11:51 GMT
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Sept 29, 2021 16:35:47 GMT
So long that I can't even remember.
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Post by ellynmacg on Sept 29, 2021 20:44:21 GMT
So long that I can't even remember. You and me both. I do recall (no pun intended) using a phone kiosk--which is not quite the same thing--more recently than a full-size booth, but when was that? 
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Post by ant-mac on Sept 29, 2021 21:30:49 GMT
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Post by paislene on Sept 29, 2021 23:21:28 GMT
Gee , I think telephone booths started becoming redundant where I live (Melbourne, Australia) with the advent of the millenium (2000 Y2K) , and the rise of the mobile phone then . There were lots of phone booths everywhere , in small towns , along highways and in many streets of suburbs , by suburban shops as well as near train stations . There were lines of them in the city . They gradually disappeared with those remaining sometimes working and sometimes not . I had actually had a mobile phone before 2000 for courier work , but the dam thing nearly crippled me , because when it buzzed it made my hip ache badly , and I threw it away at the beginning of the millenium because I hated it and was retiring . There were many people around that time who developed neck or brain cancer from those mobile phones . I think the last time I used a phone booth might have been sometime in the 2010's when I had to ring home about a shopping list . Our state government has just brought in a program to reinstate and repair telephone booths for public safety and other emergencies .
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Post by mecano04 on Sept 30, 2021 0:16:20 GMT
A pay phone, when all lined up like this?  Last time was probably 10-12 years ago. A proper phone booth?  I can't remember but probably not in the last 20 years.
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Post by Xcalatë on Sept 30, 2021 8:27:00 GMT
1999-2000? There was one at the subway staion near my house until 2005 or so.
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Post by kls on Sept 30, 2021 9:37:34 GMT
I can't recall using any inside an actual booth. Last time I used a pay phone was around 5 years ago. A few pay phones minus the booth are still where I work, but they have no dial tone.
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Post by Vodkie on Sept 30, 2021 14:01:39 GMT
not exactly a booth but 2020. They greyhound bus station in Center City, Philadelphia on Filbert St had pay phones and I wanted to see if they actually worked 
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Post by mystery on Sept 30, 2021 16:57:37 GMT
I'm not sure that I've ever used a phone booth, but the last time I used a pay phone was probably in the 90's. Whenever we saw a pay phone, we would always check the coin return slot to see if people left change there, and then we'd use it to buy candy. The simply joys of youth.
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Post by gameboy on Sept 30, 2021 18:24:18 GMT
I can't even imagine using a telephone booth now. Just imagine all the saliva and disease and bacteria which accumulated on those phone mouth pieces? And that's not to mention possible ear infections at the other end.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Sept 30, 2021 23:34:30 GMT
What would Underdog do today?
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Post by alittlebirdie on Oct 1, 2021 0:01:49 GMT
A pay phone maybe a few years ago. Can't remember booth. I hope they don't get rid of them all together though. (Phone not charged, lost, hopefully not mugged!)
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Post by langdona on Oct 1, 2021 1:56:20 GMT
Never, I think... I have used a pay phone, last time idk. I didn't like using them even when I didn't have a cell phone
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Post by onethreetwo on Oct 1, 2021 2:02:57 GMT
There was an outdoor payphone at a gas station near me. It might even still be there. Probably used it last in the early 2000s.
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Post by ᵗʰᵉᵃᵘˣᵖʰᵒᵘ on Oct 2, 2021 20:40:11 GMT
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