And no picture?

One picture would have been better than a thousand words

clipperbox: Grables'Daughter: And no picture?

came here to say this....

and speaking of pictures, yours are just fine.

Oh my...

Don't use cellphones much, and find the lack of payphones annoying. Cell phone plans are too damn expensive. And if you think $150 is the actual number needed for upkeep of a phone in an urban area, you're dreaming. Economies of scale, people.

No Picture? DRTA

But, I'm sure there's a small fortune to be made in refurbishing those things for home decor. I'd want one, especially if it came with a cell phone charging dock too. They should call those Picker Sister chicks.

Eventually it will become in style to have an old school pay phone in dens, game rooms, etc of private homes and the demand will skyrocket. I wish I had initial cash and storage infrastructure to get it going. Sales and stuff could be done online for low overhead.

Hell, look at the decor of most casual dining chains and all the old stuff they have as decor. Look at the money made on the show "Pickers" from the old crap they buy. It is only a matter of time.

Matthew Keene: And what if there is a huge solar flare that takes us back to 1900? With no post office, hardwired phones, mechanical adding machines and cash registers, we're screwed. Have you ever seen a restaurant when the computer goes down? They're farking helpless. They've no concept of an order wheel, and tickets properly written for the cook. Grocery stores CLOSE when the POS goes down and the backup doesn't work. And banking would be a disaster.

Yeah, and generators wouldn't help much if the internet went down (which I think it's foolish to think it never ever will). Another fun fact to chew on, hospitals are increasingly running off electronic medical records, distancing themselves from having a staff trained on how to work with paper records. My husband is a doc and he's already doing everything through an iPad (and not just medical records, but pocket books full of info doctors need to access on a daily basis are now apps accessed through the web rather than hard copy info kept in their coat). Not to knock it, because I think we could really benefit from unified medical records, and the digital realm is where that can be done, but it's just one more thing that poses a lot of danger in the event we were to have our electricity/internet taken out.

/totally off topic
//I need to order landline service
///does anyone make some type of device that will pick up your cell phone signal and ring loud all through your house like a land line phone when you're home? I miss so many cell phone calls when I'm at home. When I was a kid the whole house rang when someone was calling.

Technology changes and you need to either adapt to it, or move out of the way. Since the arrival of cell-phones, how many of us still have land-line phones?

I haven't had one in a decade.

I don't remember people getting all weepy when DVDs made VCRs obsolete

What a payphone graveyard might look like:

When my son was still living at home, he saw an add for refurbished Southwestern Bell pay phones for something like $200, so he bought one. Once he got the monster, there was no place in the house to mount it, so it stayed in the box.

He's now got his own place and the pay phone is still in the box. He uses his cell phone exclusively but keeps it turned off most of the time, so getting ahold of him is tough. I think he wants it that way, as it's harder to turn off a landline. He also says the ring on the pay phone is too loud and the nieghbors in the apt. next t him would complain.

One of these days, I suppose he'll hook it up, but...

StarshipAngel: I'd also love to have one of those orange belt-hangey phones the linemen used to carry.



Oh man, I forgot about those. My Dad worked for the phone company and totally had one of those. Wish I'd held on to it.

Aulus: When my son was still living at home, he saw an add for refurbished Southwestern Bell pay phones for something like $200, so he bought one. Once he got the monster, there was no place in the house to mount it, so it stayed in the box.

He's now got his own place and the pay phone is still in the box. He uses his cell phone exclusively but keeps it turned off most of the time, so getting ahold of him is tough. I think he wants it that way, as it's harder to turn off a landline. He also says the ring on the pay phone is too loud and the nieghbors in the apt. next t him would complain.

One of these days, I suppose he'll hook it up, but...

It may be somewhat of a collectiable item, these days.

I hope they took out all of the AIDS needles.

Are they buried in the same spot as all the Atari ET games?

texdent: Are they buried in the same spot as all the Atari ET games?

LOL. I forgot all about that fiasco.