Vintage Letterman - Dave Calls a Pay Phone in Times Square

[@szqsk8]

I miss pay phones. I grew up with them in the 60s. Used to check the little change cup in each one I walked by to check for change. It was a happy day when I found a couple of dimes. That meant candy run at the liquor store!

[@dk14929]

You don't miss payphones; you miss being young and not having responsibilities

[@TWOhype23]

That’s weird as a kid I always made liquor runs at the candy store

[@michaelwertzy9808]

(dial 0 for Operator) hello, Operator! This phone didn't give my dime (10 cents) back and I have no more change. Can you help me?! No, it's not in the coin return or coin slot! What can I do? Operator: Hello, "sir" are you still there? Yes,ma'am. You need to say your name and phone number, and address, and we'll send you a refund within 2 weeks. But operator I have no money NOW. I'm sorry, sir, that's all we can do. (I'm all of 15 yrs. old)! 4 days later I received a letter with a card in it that had a dime taped to it! The scam of my life! I've felt guilty ever since! Peace

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Down payment on a tube of Hair Epoxy!

[@monolithgeometry3221]

@@dk14929 bullshit. Pay phones are awesome. Something about anonymity we all used to have

[@BleuBlancoFilms]

Good ole Vintage Letterman when pay phones were a plenty.

[@jliz6435]

The good ole days when there were no cell phones 😎❤️

[@mjproebstle]

oh man...the side of that phone booth has an ad for ‘windows on the world’ restaurant (110 stories and just as many entrees) which was on top of the south tower. i had dinner there once with a very special friend of mine back in the day...it was magical...

[@Kubakaiser]

NOBODY gets close to Letterman.

[@monolithgeometry3221]

Mrs. Letterman

[@satchelconnor995]

He did that often I remember especially during the 90s. I wish people had more videos of this because it's my biggest memory I had of the vintage shows.

[@Straight0uttaCrofton]

i still have several of those Top Ten books!

[@name998]

Didn't know you could call a payphone! Anyway miss letterman

[@Mike-vt6nc]

Ok youngsters that’s called a Pay Phone we had to put money in it to make a phone call lol

[@geoffdearth8575]

Paul played it out with "We ain't got nothin' yet". Paul was an encyclopedia of pop music. Not only that but his band was right with him.

[@namelessjedi2242]

I bought those Top Ten books, and still have them. 😁

[@rantoolio]

Loved Dave, Thanks

[@Kubakaiser]

2:07 that pencil flip.

[@billymoses9925]

He didn't even look

[@XploreAz]

What about it?

[@naserjwz]

Yoo wtf

[@capechick2562]

Wow, I couldn't stop looking at the poster of the Twin Towers on the phone banks. Chilll's and heartache.

[@KandiKlover]

wew

[@steveleeart]

Lol I have those top ten books! Plus one on the old guy that used to be on regularly, I totally forget his name.

[@steveleeart]

Calvin DeForest! Just remembered!

[@TrollingVeteran]

110 stories and just as many entrees.

[@Walkman0007]

Add for windows on the world, Twin towers

[@thefrontpage]

Pay phones were still around into the NINETIES. LONG PAST "the 60s.". Cell phones didn't really take over until the early 2000s.

[@mikephillips8538]

Yeah this is Mayor Dinkins did I leave my car keys down there....hahahaha

[@szqsk8]

Wow, pay phones. You don't see those any more.

[@Raymond-rr5iv]

Dave I have to tell you I study color in a pinstripe the biggest BMW dealer in the United States with paint ! Johanes Itten is a famous German color theorist ! He took a lot of major works of art and integrated their colors to arrive at one color. That color is medium Gray like your shirts. His conclusion was that medium gray satisfies the mind !!! And I must say the most popular color of BMWs is gray !! So Dave there you have it !!

[@eLiFILMSinc]

Never seen Times Square so empty. Must've been nice

[@mjproebstle]

eLi FILMS until now!!!!!

[@GuamTippedOver]

incredible pencil flip at 2:06

[@joshboy88420]

That was pretty awesome

[@kevinklingered]

i had that book of top tens

[@balerjohnson3099]

Great days indeed .

[@peteleveque]

Flashback to simpler times

[@jackiejones1341]

He was an original. So funny.

[@SteveBalbonisHammer]

Twin towers on the left with the number 11 repeated in the top corner and in the 110 stories is creepy.

[@kenweis2291]

Try and do this today..lol

[@TristanMulhall]

Note World Trade Centre Windows of the World billboard

[@Blacklightdtb]

They added a new entrance in 2001

[@Teeveepicksures]

nearly anywhere you were, all you had to do was look up the kids will never understand

[@172km]

the camera man actually aims back to the jumbotron to show us the pay phone guy on the jumbotron.... hmmm

[@dk14929]

Remember this next time someone tries to glorify the past by saying people are stupider now than they used to be

[@newphonewhodis1035]

Wow, i remember now i bought that book,lol

[@JoeKnows44]

Still have that book

[@donaldalbano6484]

this is candid camera

[@SuperLordHawHaw]

Dave should've had the guy pick up a sandwich and deliver it for him

[@ArtificialBanana]

Pay phones, the news zipper and Howard Johnson’s!

[@steveleeart]

I have that book 😂

[@jamesm.3967]

Pay phone and guy carrying newspapers….time capsule.

[@presence5426]

In Times Square: Ads for Minolta, Kodak, Howard Johnson's. Do they even exist anymore?

[@teeroh99]

Huge ad for Suntory Hibiki at 2:55. I didn't know Hibiki had been around that long!

[@markbarden4120]

Dave was alot FUNNIER in his older shows. New ones sucked.

[@drummerwes81]

your description says May 1992 but at 2:53 Dave says they're having early fall weather.

[@HariRauMurthy]

RIP 3:33

[@random-rr1kq]

4:14 is this Beverly Garland wearing sunglasses?

[@jd7699]

What are pay phones again?

[@randyastle3301]

Old New Yorkers, what’s that statue in the bushes with the cane? I haven’t noticed a statue like that since my first time in Times Square in 2002. But who was it?

[@JohnPerry-26]

5:03 it's TJ Miller!

[@zxcmvbn]

Not really...

[@G3000]

haha.. so random :D

[@jvolstad]

Did I see a Howard Johnsons?

[@iAmIronMan0605]

"Early fall weather" May??

[@bobg56]

Gee. What's a payphone?

[@nadamasdisponible]

dave was great. conan is even better

[@edwardharris7332]

Dave can be a real jerk sometime.

[@thomaslatkowski9792]

4:14 is that Donald Trump Jr?

[@NESherv]

No, it's Patrick Bateman. But same thing.

[@mjoven1975]

Thomas Latkowski Trump Jr. was 14 in 1992

[@stuwest3653]

Lame

[@MRATOMIC-yz2cx]

The World Trade Center was destroyed on Tuesday September 11, 2001.

VHS Tape 7* No way! Why hadn't I heard of this?

[@eaglesfandgb]

Really? I had no idea. I just read we landed on the moon.

[@stuwest3653]

Thanks for the tip, moron.

[@rustyshackleford9506]

Good times good times

[@markdaniels7174]

It was??? How did the rest of us not know?

[@jennifer86010]

Not only did the concept of this bit not work, the technical idea failed too, since they didn't switch their on-air camera to the Times Square Jumbotron TV fast enough, and too many other people were in the way. Most of Letterman's bits failed when he used average regular people. It was a stupid idea to do this, because average regular people are not performers, so Letterman resorted to making them look either stupid, or ridiculous, or ugly. Letterman's cocky elitist producers and writers looked down on average regular people. So did Letterman, which is why Cher called him and asshole when she appeared on his show.

[@chriss1183]

Oh brother.

[@nickrobinson2963]

How come he was never funny?

[@straycatttt]

How come you click on videos of unfunny guys?