It won't be long before the last pay phone disappears, at least as we know it today, where you deposit a coin and then make a call. Cell phones have made pay phones obsolete. Years ago, if you owned a business and you had a pay phone installed inside or outside your store, you got a cut on each call. It was a good deal for a small business person.
Many of today's pay phones look like the one in the picture. And more look like it every day. And not too long after the phone is gone, so goes the pedestal.
A few years ago, as my then-16-year-old daughter and I passed a pay phone, I asked her if she had ever used one or if she knew how to use one. She answered "no" to both questions.
We work in Oak Creek Canyon as camp hosts and our pay phone was recently removed since it wasn't working very well and the person that services them is phasing them out. We could still use a payphone here since most cell phones( verizon does work but at our entrance) don't work and it's quite a drive back to where you can get service.
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