Payphones Past

Sioux City: “Pay phones were vaporized.”

“The pay phone previously present at the Kum & Go at 14th and Pierce? Gone. The one on Pierce Street between Gordon Drive and Third Street? Kaput.

“That Pierce Street phone was the one used by Linda Talbott, of Elk Point, S.D., the last time she used a pay phone. That came in the early 1990s, Talbot said, when on the way to her hospital job she needed to talk to her husband.”

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