Both are gone now. Taken across the street from the Northridge mall in the San Fernando valley. Right click to open to see bigger photo
Posted on 09/04/2023 11:13:11 AM PDT by DallasBiff
They became obsolete after the ADA passed……not wheelchair accessible.
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I saw the punchline before you got there. Did you stop checking that phone?
I did for a week or two until I caught in to their practical joke.
“It was always exciting to score that dime!”
Yep! That was in the day of penny candy!
Back when there was Ben Franklin Stores. They had a penny candy aisle. Loved it.
In the old days phone booths in public places worked great—everywhere except New York City.
Those phone booths were almost always vandalized and the phones got no dial tone.
As a former sales rep who often used public phones, I’ll never forget the stench of urine in a phone booth in the dead of summer. If you were in a place where you had to close the door because of the noise….
A real superhero movie!
‘Slightly OT, but somebody posted about these retro handsets yesterday. This cracks me up. I should get one just to walk around the neighborhood with my phone in my pocket chatting on the phone with my sister!”
A guy I used to work with walked in to a meeting with one of those one day and of course immediately took a call. It was hilarious.
Those phone booths were almost always vandalized and the phones got no dial tone.
Except for the ones the drug dealers used.
That must have absolutely cracked everybody up!
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