New York City has just hung up on a tradition dating back more than a century, taking away its last sidewalk pay phone. ABC News' Will Ganss has the 411.
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@wallflower18522 жыл бұрын
I was born in the mid-90s. I still remember dialling random telephone numbers just for fun...
@mytravls2 жыл бұрын
That means you did that until mid 00s?
@eatpigsnot2 жыл бұрын
i thought you sounded familiar!
@angryox31022 жыл бұрын
Was born in the late 80s and did it in the mid 90s
@DavidLopez-vc2tf2 жыл бұрын
@@eatpigsnot lmao
@AlxAlvr2 жыл бұрын
You know you can still do that on your touchscreen lol
@salruiz75562 жыл бұрын
Let me get this straight we have now reached that point in time where pay phones are displayed in museums now....... like in the MOVIES!?!?!
@cashewnuttel90542 жыл бұрын
Let me get this straight they are mourning pay phones? Will they mourn the 3 dead at a Tulsa hospital after another shooting massacre because Americans just won't get rid of guns already?
@spencersholden2 жыл бұрын
Yes
@samplautz55862 жыл бұрын
I know. I’m 20 and this makes me feel old
@brandon12342 жыл бұрын
Soon the smartphones will follow
@richardhernandez78722 жыл бұрын
im 20 and i always loved payed phones never used them but they were so cool lol
@megatronusorionpax49002 жыл бұрын
I feel like phone booths can still be useful especially for kids who are lost or anyone who doesn't have a phone or who's phone is dead it would definitely be a useful thing
@pleasedontwatchthese95932 жыл бұрын
They are useful if you all alone, no on is around, you somehow have change, and its at night when all of the phone stores are closed.
@ibrake4rappers2 жыл бұрын
i lost my phone once and i was desperate for a payphone but couldnt find a single one
@stillbuyvhs2 жыл бұрын
Useful, but not profitable. :( (In theory that means there are better uses for the same resources, but I don't always like theories.)
@Scambush2 жыл бұрын
Problem is today no one knows their loved ones' numbers by memory. I don't even know my fiancee's. Only know my Dad's since I knew it for a very long time before smartphones.
@sm-yj7nu2 жыл бұрын
@@Scambush that part
@warrinbang11912 жыл бұрын
When your cell phone battery dies and you're left all alone you're gonna miss being able to call momma from the local pay phone. 😭
@MEQUPWER2 жыл бұрын
u can make free calls to anywhere in the us on the kiosk!
@okamijubei2 жыл бұрын
Yeah but because of power banks and emergency dynamo radios, they also do their jobs for recharging your phone.... Out of range on the other hand...
@krunkle51362 жыл бұрын
Don't worry. You just have to talk to strangers and ask to use their phone a feel like a bumb.
@mashy7122 жыл бұрын
Just use the Kiosk to charge your phone.
@imdavid48752 жыл бұрын
oh i will miss payphones too.,.
@nolanrandall42422 жыл бұрын
I used a pay phone in Toronto last summer after my iPhone died. And it turned out to be very useful for my situation. I think pay phones will always be necessary. It's not like everyone alive has cell phone access all the time.
@MEQUPWER2 жыл бұрын
u can make free calls to anywhere in the us on the kiosk!
@Eli-ss9gj2 жыл бұрын
@@MEQUPWER bruh said Toronto lmao that’s not the US
@krunkle51362 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately there's this mentality in the US of things needing to be obsolete even though in some situations make that thing still necessary. All hail the market.
@0xm3trix2 жыл бұрын
What is this "pay phone" you guys speak of??
@lisavanderpump74752 жыл бұрын
Ya but payphones are so dirty and gross , u can just go into a store or a cellphone store and they will let u charge ur phone if it died
@Victor-kt6qn2 жыл бұрын
I've still used them to this day. My phone dies, forgot it, or forgot to pay my phone bill. Once when I was 14 I got lost so I had to call my dad with a payphone. Those things save lives.
@D33Lux2 жыл бұрын
Needed one last week, luckily a kind woman let me use the phone of her restaurant.
@agyos2 жыл бұрын
It is not just sad, it is dismissive of those who cannot afford, or who don’t know how to use cell phones, or modern technology…i.e., many elderly, as well as the poor. How can they call for help, or information, or to get in contact with a family member or friend, if needed? Also…gone is the free call to an operator who can possibly be of assistance, or 911. Yep! Beyond sad. Thank you for the report.
@donakidder34242 жыл бұрын
Exactly! I've broke my phone and it's so hard to borrow a phone from a business. I refuse to ask an individual for the phone loan because they worry you will take off with it.
@mytravls2 жыл бұрын
Who cares about elderly? 😂 My dad is 71 now. Been using the cell for many years now. He doesn’t care anymore. I believe people older than him are o it a few or may not even know how to communicate. Again, not being disrespectful but saying from experience after watching several older folks.
@ChandraNYC2 жыл бұрын
I share the nostalgia for the old school pay phones. However, free phone calls can be made from the new Link kiosks; and 911 calls are always free, even if you're behind on your phone bill.
@internet20552 жыл бұрын
@@mytravls BS
@republicoftexas46512 жыл бұрын
They literally have free phones for the elderly that a toddler could use. Everything disabled except big giant Call and End Call buttons. They'll even send someone to your house to program number into it. Care providers, Medicaid, Meals on Wheels will assist them in getting signed up.
@colossusforbin54842 жыл бұрын
I remember when I was a kid, I walked up to a pay phone, pulled the change lever and a handful of quarters came out. Can't remember how much it was. Maybe $3 or $4 worth, but that was like $100 to me in those days.
@sm-yj7nu2 жыл бұрын
Change levers memories the big one on the side before the little one in front
@feiwong43102 жыл бұрын
That's so cool. I would always check the phones at school sometimes I'd get change as well.
@melanie77812 жыл бұрын
The pay phones should not go away. Not all people have a cell phone. In an emergency pay phones are a good thing.
@ChandraNYC2 жыл бұрын
Phone calls are free from the new Link kiosks.
@HappyStrawberry142 жыл бұрын
What are you talking about?? Homeless people have cell phones in this country. I don’t know anyone that doesn’t have a cell phone.
@untouchable360x2 жыл бұрын
@@HappyStrawberry14 I once saw a homeless dude with the newest iPhone. He had a better phone than me. lol
@olindetroit76362 жыл бұрын
Here in the U.S, Government agencies are giving cell phones and internet services to anyone who lives below the poverty line.
@chuckyyes2 жыл бұрын
@@untouchable360x yea, Iphones are cheap now.
@momoqin92962 жыл бұрын
As a 14 year old, I’m actually quite sad about this
@jjgameshow26822 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@andreadalvarez61452 жыл бұрын
Same :(
@Airhotpilot2 жыл бұрын
I never even used a payphone yet it's sad..
@Izralights2 жыл бұрын
Don't be ur too young to care anyways
@truefacts1282 жыл бұрын
@@Izralights People could believe what they want to
@icedove1012 жыл бұрын
They made payphones free here in Australia instead of just removing them.
@feiwong43102 жыл бұрын
That's really cool
@neverangel24officialytchan872 жыл бұрын
Wow.
@bretts45442 жыл бұрын
Guess it just wouldn’t be the American thing to do lol
@pleasedontwatchthese95932 жыл бұрын
I guess if a lot of places have free wifi a free phone does not seem like a big deal to do
@icedove1012 жыл бұрын
@@pleasedontwatchthese9593 they're helpful for the homeless, and great for times when your own phone isnt working.
@amberwright69182 жыл бұрын
Dude I'm so into that news reporter. He needs his own show!
@BeardedDragonMan19972 жыл бұрын
whats him name?
@radl3nt2 жыл бұрын
@Factual Truth Damn.😂
@davidovics922 жыл бұрын
@Factual Truth ?
@Dylan-xx2tk2 жыл бұрын
@@davidovics92 it means he's the sub in a relationship. People in this comment section are judging him by his voice (which sounds similar to a stereotypical gay guy)
@Divinitys-course_16912 жыл бұрын
@Factual Truth lmao
@stephs82772 жыл бұрын
Damn, my parents met at a payphone so kinda sad that they're vanishing.
@Tyler.2542 жыл бұрын
So simple and easy! That doesn't happen anymore these days and i hate it. Relationships are hard to get these days
@mingfanzhang89272 жыл бұрын
Woke
@B1LL94652 жыл бұрын
I remember my dad would always tell me to carry change with me in case I needed to use a pay phone
@lindyc.25522 жыл бұрын
I am 63 and remember pay phones everywhere! But, I contemplate how much times have changed. I remember one of the songs that I liked (while growing up) in the 70's. It was released in 1972 when I was13. It was Operator by Jim Croce. I figure any young people today have no idea what those lyrics mean... especially the last part of the song when he tells the operator "you can keep the dime." I am getting old, and out of date myself. But, I wouldn't trade my life's experiences growing up in the 60's and 70's for anything! I even remember the old party lines and dialing 0 to get the operator to help me make a call. Also, I remember my childhood phone number being a combination of letters and numbers. But, I love all my childhood memories, even if technology has advanced so dramatically, give me the good old days of pay phones.
@FriedRice35192 жыл бұрын
very epic that you got to grow up in good times.
@lindyc.25522 жыл бұрын
@@FriedRice3519 Other generations may say that they had the best childhood times. But, I truly feel that my generation was the last generation that really got to grow up in innocence and real freedom! We had good long normal childhoods, without having to grow up fast. (Unlike kids today who are bombarded with images, sights and fears that cause them to grow up fast)! Growing up in the 60's and 70's families were still much more together and traditional. You didn't have the Hugh threat of perverts after you that kids have today. We didn't need active shooter school drills. We didn't worry about global warming, earth shattering asteroids hitting us, super vulcanos (like Yellowstone) taking us out... Yes, there was Vietnam, but, as a young kid, that seemed far away. We never worried about deadly viruses like Covid or Monkey Pox. We weren't glued to little tiny screens day and night! We went outside to play everyday. We would be gone all day and our parents never worried. They knew we were okay. They would just call us for supper or when it got dark. Even after dark we could talk them into letting us go back out to catch fireflies. You knew all your neighbors. And all the parents in the neighborhood looked out for everyone's kids. We drank from the garden hose. We played in the mud and dirt. We played with toys that today's parents would freak out about. We went on typical family vacations in our station wagons piled high with baggage. We never wore seatbelts! When your parents went around a curve that was the time to slam your siblings against the car door. Then the next curve they would slam you against your door. Wow, we had soooo much fun growing up. And the music on our transistor radios was, I think, the greatest music of all time! Music like America, Bread, The Guess Who, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, the Carpenters, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues... The list of AWESOME music from that time just goes on and on! It also has always been interesting to me that I was born that very same month that "the music died." Do you know what month and year that was in Rock & Roll history? But, the 60's and 70's was a most wonderful time to be growing up in America! I wouldn't trade my childhood memories for anything.
@wizardsuth2 жыл бұрын
I was searchin' (searchin') on a one-way street. I was hopin' (hopin') for a chance to meet. I was waitin' for the operator on the line. -- from _Sweet Talkin' Woman_ by ELO
@Marylandbrony2 жыл бұрын
The real reason is because they don’t want you to leave the Matrix.
@cityofabscissae2 жыл бұрын
I always thought it was neat you could call a payphone, see who picked up, and possibly have a random conversation with someone you didn't know at a popular place like Times Square!
@randomtees2 жыл бұрын
College have blue light phones lined all throughout campus for emergency calls. You're telling me that the didn't think to repurpose those pay phones into emergency-only phones in New York City of all places, where crime is once again rising significantly?
@caitlinsoliman16582 жыл бұрын
I think it is a good idea to have them in case of an emergency where cellphones don't work
@TigerTT2 жыл бұрын
Most of them smell like piss and don't work lol
@krunkle51362 жыл бұрын
With today's technology they don't even have to be expensive to make.
@giospage2 жыл бұрын
your phoene doesnt work so you drive 4 hours to find the nearest payphone that makes sense
@fredlandry61702 жыл бұрын
I remember when I was a kid in the 80’s they were just about everywhere.
@justclaudiabusiness2 жыл бұрын
Many homeless people use a pay phone near a CVS around the corner where I work. I don’t understand why can’t they just keep them. What’s the harm? This is sad.
@VOLTRONDEFENDER44402 жыл бұрын
I remember the payphone song! This gives me nostalgia just hearing that music on this video!
@bobabooey45372 жыл бұрын
Life was great as a kid. I remember being 10 years old and on rare occasion reaching in and finding a quarter left in a pay phone. Reach in to that little silver door at the bottom for coin return and hope for the jack pot of 25 cents. I remember first time at an airport and seeing 20 pay phones lined up on a wall, it was like heaven lol.
@empirestate87912 жыл бұрын
Pay phones can be very useful at times. I once forgot my cell phone and needed to call someone from the local library, so I used the pay phone. I imagine a lot of people would find themselves in similar situations. Sometimes the battery dies, other times you forget the phone. I also imagine a lot of elderly people may not have cell phones. Phone boots don't need to be as ubiquitous as they once were, but keeping a few here and there would come in handy!
@quantumphaser2 жыл бұрын
This just makes me feel old. Superman can't help you anymore, New York. Clark Kent has nowhere left to change outfits.
@traildoggy2 жыл бұрын
They will bring them back, but this time ironically. Only hipsters will use them, even though they have a cell phone in their pocket. They will rave about the rich, old school tone and satisfying 'button-feel' they get from a real vintage pay phone.
@krunkle51362 жыл бұрын
Buttons are so much better than touch.
@suicunesolsan2 жыл бұрын
What is this trend of people not knowing what irony is anymore...
@ll-nr5so2 жыл бұрын
Pabst blue ribbon beer YUCK
@jeromecabral1922 жыл бұрын
Back in the 80s us kids used to make prank calls and call the operator to find numbers who accept collect calls
@feiwong43102 жыл бұрын
Did you ever make a collect call prank call? Lol
@jeromecabral1922 жыл бұрын
@@feiwong4310 yep at the age of 8 til I was 13
@davidperry40132 жыл бұрын
I remember that my local movie theater got rid of payphones in 2003 when I was growing up, I was still in elementary school back then. Payphones were in a much higher rate of decline in Texas due to the low cost of living.
@ramonsmediablog2 жыл бұрын
That’s awesome it’s being placed in a museum.
@ITGirlll2 жыл бұрын
This was a good story, by a good reporter.
@bigpedro5592 жыл бұрын
I remember using a Payphone to call my grandma to pick me up from the mall and just looking in the big yellow pages book wasn't looking for anything specific just went through the book 😂
@TravisDoesKayakFishing2 жыл бұрын
As a teenager... 1...800...C....O....L.....L....E....C....T - "Say your name at the beep" BEEP "Ready Mom" "Your party declined the call" 15 minutes later my ride arrived
@gonzoducks82 жыл бұрын
"Momit'sme At(crosstreets)" Pretty much used this up until from 12-16 years old.
@apara20052 жыл бұрын
Omg, yes. Totally forgot doing this as a kid. Lol!!!!!!!!
@TravisDoesKayakFishing2 жыл бұрын
@@gonzoducks8 Every day man
@TravisDoesKayakFishing2 жыл бұрын
@@apara2005 fun times lol.
@internet20552 жыл бұрын
So confirmed, there will be no sequel to The Phonebooth movie
@empressx_2 жыл бұрын
i remember using the pay phone at the airport because my phone was dead.
@iCANT_BELIEVE_YOU_SAID_THAT2 жыл бұрын
They should have at least leave one there as a historical landmark.
@josephinenilsson15412 жыл бұрын
Wow. I live in Sweden and don’t think we’ve had phone booths since the early 2000’s. I sade a Phoebe booth in Berlin five years ago and me and my friends were ecstatic about the retroness of that. Can’t believe New York has had them until now, how sad it couldn’t have stayed.
@billythekidder71822 жыл бұрын
Pay phones cost money to operate and barely get used. There are free cell phones for the poor and elderly some with big buttons. This was inevitable.
@krunkle51362 жыл бұрын
I'm sure if they were still common where I live they'd still be used frequently. This is a shame.
@pleasedontwatchthese95932 жыл бұрын
I have seen homeless people with better smart phones that I had. After that I knew payphones where dead
@sololuisvlogs2 жыл бұрын
I don’t see a problem with pay phones . Ever since cellphones were available to everyone crime has hit a all time high. The world is less safe today than when I was a kid … ✌️
@PuttinOnTheRiffs2 жыл бұрын
Lol the ability to call from your pocket is the reason for civilizations decline? Cell phones aren’t the problem. The camera pointing at you from your smart phone screen is. Conflating two different things a bit here. At that rate, ever since they were able to get cheese and tomato sauce in a tortino pizza roll society has just never been the same.
@olindetroit76362 жыл бұрын
I'm assuming that was meant as a joke😉
@tay29442 жыл бұрын
Crime has went down since the 90s
@justinjohnson36942 жыл бұрын
R.I.P Pay phones you will surely be missed 🙌
@rara18002 жыл бұрын
I still think they are necessary what if your phone dies and there’s an emergency? Also people are not comfortable with allowing someone borrow their phone on the spot.
@toxiflexx042 жыл бұрын
The kiosk make free calls
@bryancorts53892 жыл бұрын
There goes the 80's...
@Beth92282 жыл бұрын
I remembered seeing phone booths back in the 80’s and the 90’s.
@charlesmathuesiii12062 жыл бұрын
I work for Verizon for 33 and a half years here in Philadelphia and working in West Philadelphia. In 2007 I had to remove the rest of the coin phones in that area. I had to go into children's hospital and I asked the young nurse behind a desk and asking her where was the coin phone on the fourth floor. Her response to me what's a coin phone? Priceless I will never forget it!
@jamesm8872 жыл бұрын
I don’t think it’s a good idea to get rid of pay phones, it’s not like everyone always has a cell phone or always has a phone charge. I even think they should keep pay phones at airports to make international phone calls by land line. I do not have an international phone plan either.
@toxiflexx042 жыл бұрын
Apparently you can make free calls from the kiosk, and charge your phone at the kiosk. What is the point of keeping around old technology that is an inconvienience?
@Ively-Creations2 жыл бұрын
Just a few years ago when my son was about 5 I told him to take a pic next to a pay-phone bc they would one day become 'relics' - I feel pretty old right now! 😉
@octoman5112 жыл бұрын
sooooo if you need to make an emergency call and lost your cell phone or the service does not work... what do you do?
@chrisw49972 жыл бұрын
I'm gonna use my local phone booth 52 times within the next year.
@rafsanAhmed932 жыл бұрын
This payphones used to reminds me that life was good back then now its sucks.
@Brandonhayhew2 жыл бұрын
These pat phone should remain as a historical sites
@matthewscott10912 жыл бұрын
I’m American, but personally I don’t think the UK should get rid of the red phone booths. Perhaps change their purpose but not eliminate them. Here, our phone booths aren’t cute like the UK’s, they’re just dirty old phones. But to people outside of the UK (i.e. tourists), those red booths along with double decker busses, the Union Jack, Big Ben, Stone Henge & more are classic symbols of England and part of what makes it so charming to visit.
@michaeltaylor16032 жыл бұрын
We got a lotta Red booths in Houston, TX. They are on Upper Kirby Drive as decorations. Original London Bridge is in Texas too. Next to London, Texas IS where it's AT!
@matthewscott10912 жыл бұрын
@@michaeltaylor1603 I’m born & raised & still live in Texas. Just northwest of Houston but I haven’t been downtown much because I hate traffic, lol.
@trevorallen32122 жыл бұрын
If I recall correctly these are actually cheap to make phone calls. Like a couple of quarters vs buying a $200 to $400 cellphone for calls makes a huge of a difference. Essentially if you are living in the streets near broke good luck borrowing someone's phone or buying one in the matter. If that isn't possible danger implication to the public safety then I don't know what is. We can't forget about elders too. I understand most folks have these phones but, they still aren't all cheap to get them.
@steamstream7772 жыл бұрын
Keep a payphone there as a tourist attraction
@JordanCrawfordSF2 жыл бұрын
Actually they are still useful. In fact I made this comment on a pay phone. It took me 20 minutes to type out.... but I had the quarters handy.
@caesar77342 жыл бұрын
What if your mobile phone dies and you don’t have a charger? And what if you then try to ask strangers to borough theirs but think that you are trying to rob them?
@toxiflexx042 жыл бұрын
Kiosk makes free calls
@jaywires7172 жыл бұрын
Cellphones killed the pay phone.
@jimmyweathersby3272 жыл бұрын
Damn pay phone lasted longer than blackberry
@brokenarrowgaming37012 жыл бұрын
When there’s nothing else to report on…report on the last pay phone 😂😂
@Mercenary-19142 жыл бұрын
I remember when I lost phone privileges for a week, so I walked up to the BP gas station to call my 304's!
@thatguy125582 жыл бұрын
They should leave phone chargers in booths next to phones for those who dont have a mobile one
@TurkeyFaceX2 жыл бұрын
I can't be the only one that laughed when he said it would be displayed in a museum.
@SippingOnRealiTEA2 жыл бұрын
So sad to see it
@imthatnerd56742 жыл бұрын
I'm only 26 but after hearing that payphones are going into a museum. I feel old 😂
@breezywarhead84892 жыл бұрын
Lol yeah but I feel like cell phone is better than paid phone booth ya know. It’s was dying since the 90s. I don’t feel old really until they start cellphone/smartphone as museum then yes we feel old in our twenties right now lol
@imthatnerd56742 жыл бұрын
@@breezywarhead8489 yiu arent wrong about that 😂 I wonder what will be created to replace the cellphone 🤔
@breezywarhead84892 жыл бұрын
@@imthatnerd5674 probably like similar to vr while you touch the air to browse stuff. Imagine that you have visor or glasses to turn on the device and use your hand in the air like VR which I saw from iron man movies xD
@jorgeruiz30962 жыл бұрын
Lmao this reporter dude is everything
@brucelee55762 жыл бұрын
You have a collect call from " mom pick me up from the McDonald's"
@Minadarling1192 жыл бұрын
Pay phone? I always thought they were NYC’s public restrooms🤷♂️
@loui302 жыл бұрын
Last time I used one of these was in 2016. My phone died and my car overheated so I had to call my parents through a payphone.
@barryjohnson4092 жыл бұрын
I'm going to start a payphone photo museum.
@RatfromNadeaust2 жыл бұрын
People don’t remember phone numbers like that anymore. So if we ever went to jail good luck.
@ll-nr5so2 жыл бұрын
cellphones do not work in situations like 9/11 where airwaves are jammed. wired phones always work
@laker4life362 жыл бұрын
Classic and Iconic.
@soulassassin0g2 жыл бұрын
A few years ago I saw a bunch of kids playing with a payphone. They were climbing on it, picking up the phone and pretending they were talking to someone, they even put quarters in it and obviously it was an abandoned phone so the mechanism inside was missing; they were basically playing make belief with a relic of the pass.
@catharsisgpars22222 жыл бұрын
Yet to forget the insult from payphone song even if its end of an era
@ihuman72532 жыл бұрын
I like the idea of replacing them with emergency medical equipment like the defibrillator ❤
@Smetkowski242 жыл бұрын
Has anyone ever picked one up that was ringing?
@AAP00002 жыл бұрын
They should leave one just as a memory, but big corporations are super greedy and desperate to squeeze every penny out of every piece of property.
@sallyphillips91752 жыл бұрын
How much was charged for a call on a pay phone before they were carted away? Last I knew, it was a quarter, but that was decades ago.
@michaeltaylor16032 жыл бұрын
As a Gen X kid. Keep @ $20 cash in pocket & $1 worth of change for pay phone for an emergency. I'm 55 yrs. old. been in a taxi less times than a 5 finger hand count. LOL!
@sallyphillips91752 жыл бұрын
@@michaeltaylor1603 I turn 55 in October and have ridden in a taxi precisely once.
@michaeltaylor16032 жыл бұрын
@@sallyphillips9175 LOL! I still can clearly remember mine was from school to grandma's house & in Las Vegas Nov. 2009. HaPpY early B-day!
@sallyphillips91752 жыл бұрын
@@michaeltaylor1603 Mine was in Daytona Beach during the annual Turkey Rod Run. My friend and I took a taxi from our hotel to a bar. This was in the late 80s. Thank you for the early birthday wishes!
@olindetroit76362 жыл бұрын
I'm a long time New Yorker And the last time I remembered using an active pay phone was many many years ago. The price was 25 cents that was Only good for a conversation lasting less than 5 minutes. Most people living in NYC, have moved on. Time changes and so do technology. There was a time when we need Fresh milk and the Milk man would dropped it off at your door. Today...Supermarket/shops 😑. Move on.......
@InternetMouse2 жыл бұрын
This is saddening. Im not even old. Im like 20 here but i grew up with pay phones. Its just so weird being in a timeline where we consider payphones to be retro now. Its just wow. Never knew that.
@nicholasr.93172 жыл бұрын
Exactly
@BunnyVelicheti2 жыл бұрын
I don’t know why it is sad, even though I have never used one in my life, probably cause they came in an era where social media streaming wasn’t dominating our lives and we just had memorable personal conversations and lived like people. And when these things were up, there were some many golden eras with many of our greats still alive. 😕
@D33Lux2 жыл бұрын
If you weren't born pre 1980's you won't understand much.
@BunnyVelicheti2 жыл бұрын
@@D33Lux Oh I read my sentence again lol and it sounds like I don’t understand it but I actually mean I also got a sad feeling even though I don’t know how one works.
@kubwayodavid2 жыл бұрын
OK this was actually enjoyable to watch.
@theia16532 жыл бұрын
Around town where I am, there are only the housings that remains of the pay phones. Only one phone that's intact but disconnected. Relics of the past.
@draculastraphouse66372 жыл бұрын
That last time I used a payphone was like 2 years ago, I think it was the last one in town because I haven't seen another one ever since that one got removed
@raniatariq95852 жыл бұрын
Why??? Some people don't have phones??? And snatching is a thing??? Nobody will willing just give anyone their phone for a call, police stations are not on every block, shops don't always have land lines that are publicly placed and neither do restaurants. This was not thought out.
@DTD1108652 жыл бұрын
There used to be at least two British pay phones in Port Jefferson, New York. The one on Main Street had the phone removed, and it has become a frequent target of vandalism.
@quantumphaser2 жыл бұрын
Great! Just Great..... My beepers been paging me for an hour! How the hell am I supposed to call back now?
@alexeistukov-ued59702 жыл бұрын
imagine the movie DIE HARD 3 without the payphones
@AlbertKimMusic2 жыл бұрын
Should be sold at an auction
@ellpcg45462 жыл бұрын
Makes you feel old when a what used to be a very commonly used item gets taken to a museum. Fml. Would actually like to have an payphone in my house just as decoration though
@doctabyte53702 жыл бұрын
I thought pay phones died 10-15 years ago
@roachtoasties2 жыл бұрын
There are still plenty of pay phones around Los Angeles. Of course, none of them work.
@nwolfe19902 жыл бұрын
My grandma is 87, she knows how to use a phone. It is not hard to adjust to learning it.
@Lamin_G2 жыл бұрын
It took quite a while for NY City to finally phase out cable street pay-phones; they are relatively late in the game - for a major U.S. city. In a way, we are still using pay phones - somebody ultimately pays for the service on your smartphone; they've (phones) just gone digital and have become mobile, satellite-assisted and multitasking devices.
@pasqualinamichelaconsiglio93912 жыл бұрын
Come to Canada. We still have pay phones.
@olindetroit76362 жыл бұрын
Appearly you have never visit NYC or failed to watch this video completely clearly. The video was about removing one of the last physical/structure of the phone booths that were STILL STANDING. There haven't been anything real active street pay phones in NYC for many many many years. Any body who've visit NYC can tell you that. 🙂
@Lamin_G2 жыл бұрын
@@olindetroit7636 "Never visited NYC"? Guilty as charged! "Has not clearly watched the video"? Nope, just fantasy on your part. You shot yourself on the foot by acknowledging that the video focuses on the last "physical structures" of phone booths "that were still standing", for they would have otherwise been removed like the other phone booths presumably were, when phones were removed from those booths. Obviously, the infrequent use of traditional pay-phones over a long stretch of time would be reason enough to cease continued use of phone booths-hence, the removable of the last holdouts of phone booths. 🙂
@greenpointscorp39462 жыл бұрын
Can that news reporter be anymore sweet
@alekos27402 жыл бұрын
🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
@greenpointscorp39462 жыл бұрын
@@alekos2740 sweet as a cupcake
@alekos27402 жыл бұрын
@@greenpointscorp3946 😂🤮🤮🤣
@austism12 жыл бұрын
It's probably you commenting that about yourself on fake accounts you made lol 🤣
@John2verse52 жыл бұрын
Easier to have control with no public phones.
@樹宏-m9o2 жыл бұрын
Ikr
@ColinoDeani2 жыл бұрын
Aww Imma Miss the Payphone.. You Guys make sure you do your part and help a Stranger every now and then when they need to make a call!
@calimorales68172 жыл бұрын
One thing that I’ll never go are those payphones on the side of the freeway
@DP-hy4vh2 жыл бұрын
No more dialing the phone booths number and quickly hanging up so the phone will keep ringing until someone picks up the receiver. 📞🔔
@kingtryton2 жыл бұрын
Cell phones killed both land lines and pay phones 😂
@Corranhorn1222 жыл бұрын
But what if you are somewhere that you arent familiar with or dont live, or perhaps is dangerous, and your cell phone breaks or dies on you? Why didnt they just upgrade these to also have the option of card or touchless payment?