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From: dcatla!mclek@gatech.edu (Larry E. Kollar)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: 100th Anniversary of the Pay Phone
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Date: 15 Aug 89 13:56:14 GMT
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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.

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Larry Kollar	...!gatech!dcatla!mclek
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