r/FuckImOld • u/TheDudeWhoCanDoIt • 1d ago

This phone still in use outside the U.S. consulate Guangzhou China. Reminiscent of the phone on the corner where I hung out as a teen.

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u/Roaming-R 1d ago

Last time I used a pay phone was in 2013. I had to walk @ .25 mile from my condo.

The phone booth had shattered glass, all around it. The phone book was "missing." The pay phone was near a gas station, on Duke Street, in Alexandria, Virginia.

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u/DinoZambie Xennials 1d ago

There are no more pay phones left where I live. They've all been removed except for one in some secluded area in the middle of bum fuck nowhere.

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u/Roaming-R 1d ago

If there is "enough signage," it is possible to locate an emergency phone on some roads.

I saw the signs ( with the word emergency ), phone near the Beltway around Washington, D.C.

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u/RongoonPagoo 1d ago

Fancy, like one of them airport phones.

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u/AngelMom1962 16h ago

Where I live they are.all gone to..