• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Yeah those Bell phones (and some Telus ones in Western Canada) are still in many places surprisingly, but increasingly rare and I haven’t seen any one use one in Canada for years.

    A couple non-Bell ones I know of in downtown Toronto still operate somehow.

    Also it’s kind of neat to see places with payphones where you know they were used way more often before, like Portland [Oregon] Union Station. I could imagine people getting off a train forming lines to try to send word home they made it into town…

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      8 months ago

      Yeah lines for the phone were common. People would argue about the relative importance of their phone call. I don’t miss it, but I kind of miss phone booths. I don’t know why.