The Miami Herald reports:
“80,000 pay phones were taken out of service in the past seven years. 150 calls a month must be made for a phone to be profitable.
“For a phone to remain profitable, it must be in an ideal location and be used for at least 150 calls a month. The best areas for pay phone use tend to be low-income neighborhoods and tourist spots…”
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These charmers are a recent discovery for me.
https://youtu.be/ajkLQ3RJrsY I procured a VCR for the purpose of digitizing some of my old VHS…
https://youtu.be/0tUj9-TonbY Starts at the Fordham Road subway, where one of the phones I looked at…
An unexpected payphone find in Ozone Park, Queens, led to a trip through its Streetview…