Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: dcatla!mclek@gatech.edu (Larry E. Kollar) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 100th Anniversary of the Pay Phone Message-ID:Date: 15 Aug 89 13:56:14 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: mclek@sunb.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar) Organization: DCA Inc., Alpharetta, GA Lines: 18 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 299, message 4 of 8 In article telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes: >The price [for a payphone call] has been twenty-five cents in most places now >for several years. Standard Telephone, in northeast Georgia, still has 10-cent payphones. But then again, most Dawsonville merchants will let you use their phone to make a local call (comes in handy when the wife sends you to the store & you forgot what she wanted :-). In 1980, I had a job as a "galley hand" (cook's go-fer) on the Gulf drilling platforms. The little telco that served Beaumont (? memory's fuzzy) TX had a FIVE-cent payphone in an office where we waited for the helicopter. -- Larry Kollar ...!gatech!dcatla!mclek : life BEGIN funds @ enough_to_retire < WHILE work REPEAT ;