“‘I would certainly think the cellphone is making the pay phone extinct,’ says Merton C. Flemings, professor emeritus of materials, science, and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ‘I can’t imagine pay phones surviving very long in any great numbers.'”
Look for a quote from the Payphone Project in this well-reported story about payphones and phone booths.
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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…