[2ndDivisionVet]

I placed payphones back in the 1980's. Averaged $900 a day but some days I made many thousands of dollars.

[dfwgator]

I remember as a kid walking around the city checking every pay phone to see if there was any change in the coin return. I usually could find a few bucks a day, enough to get a good candy allotment for the day.

[Dan in Wichita]

I remember back in the early 1980’s went the cost to make a call from a pay phone increased from 10 cents to 25 cents. Talk about alot of upset people!

[\/\/ayne]

Besides my phone booth I have 3 or 4 payphones.

[beaversmom]

This looks like an interesting article:

What Killed the Pay Phone?:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/object-lesson-phone-booth/515385

[ThomasThomas]

Can we still drop a dime on someone?

[adorno]

When all the phone booths disappear, where will Superman change?

[adorno]

The next countdown regarding phones, will be about when wired home phones will also disappear.

[beaversmom]

Rosemary’s Baby Phonebooth Scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwRmCGtWGaE

[beaversmom]

Birds’ Phone Booth Scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D15HPy4x73g

[beaversmom]

Rainman phone booth scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXA9OIrerTs

[beaversmom]

Haven’t seen this movie:

Phone Booth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiI91igl180

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88YBTmbAaoY

[veracious]

Won’t last long. Not used by enough USAians and state needs to know where you are at all times and who you talk to. Part of the end time sequencing...

[nuke_road_warrior]

And none of them have a phone book, and less than twenty actually work.

[crosdaddy]

I made pay phones in the 80’s for Palco tele com, first job I lost to NAFTA.

[edwinland]

I did some research on this and I think the reason for the high revenues is simple price gouging.

Payphone revenues dropped every year until 2011 and then they suddenly almost tripled and have remained high ever since.

(see FCC report here https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-343025A1.pdf )

So I googled around to find out what happened in 2011, and that was the year that Verizon capitulated and got out of the payphone business, shutting down a lot of phones and selling the remainder to companies that don’t have any qualms about charging $15 (yes $15!!) for a one minute call using a credit card, see here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/the-navigator-dont-be-surprised-by-exorbitant-pay-phone-rates/2013/01/31/845f564c-6724-11e2-9e1b-07db1d2ccd5b_story.html?utm_term=.db632d27edbe