Nikon D5500 | ISO 100 | 67mm | f5.6 | 1/1000s
Collect call from Bob Wehadababy-Itsaboy?
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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Nice shot! These were great if you were a kid without candy money... sometimes you'd hit the jackpot checking the coin return.
Not many great memories from that era (I was a late teen when payphones largely started disappearing because cell phones) but when as a pre-teen I learned that you could take a standard issue tack from any bulletin board and hold it in contact with the mouthpiece and any other metal object to make free calls, it opened doors in my world forever.
Fact that any major series of companies released tech this easily circumvented gave younger me an intuitive understanding that capitalism is and always will be completely fucked up. Long before I could express how.
Thanks Telus!!!
Endangered species!
Take the pics while you can!
This time is as good as any to cite Maroon 5's "payphone" and link to its gloriously dumb video, which I contend being in the top 10 dumbest videos ever (I don't want to claim it's got the top spot, since maybe there are other gems I am ignoring)
Edit: grammar