Comments on: Goodbye to an Icon http://themoderatevoice.com/16362/goodbye-to-an-icon/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:50:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: StockBoySF http://themoderatevoice.com/16362/goodbye-to-an-icon/comment-page-1/#comment-107025 StockBoySF Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:08:19 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/16362/goodbye-to-an-icon/#comment-107025 SteveK- I don't know how they can charge so little either but it's probably through the internet. It's too bad that pay phones are going away- what happens if there's an emergency and your cell doesn't work so there's no way to call 911? At least some will still be around, just not in abundance. Speaking of public amenities- I guess the phones are going the same way as street corner garbage cans. It's irritating when I want to throw something away and half to walk five blocks before I come across a garbage can... Ahhhh..... nostalgia! :) SteveK- I don’t know how they can charge so little either but it’s probably through the internet.

It’s too bad that pay phones are going away- what happens if there’s an emergency and your cell doesn’t work so there’s no way to call 911?

At least some will still be around, just not in abundance.

Speaking of public amenities- I guess the phones are going the same way as street corner garbage cans. It’s irritating when I want to throw something away and half to walk five blocks before I come across a garbage can…

Ahhhh….. nostalgia! :)

]]> By: SteveK http://themoderatevoice.com/16362/goodbye-to-an-icon/comment-page-1/#comment-106999 SteveK Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:58:47 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/16362/goodbye-to-an-icon/#comment-106999 Last paragraph should read: What a great idea. With all the soon to be abandoned hardwired pay phone sites somebody's going to come in and make a bundle… hummm! Last paragraph should read:

What a great idea. With all the soon to be abandoned hardwired pay phone sites somebody’s going to come in and make a bundle… hummm!

]]> By: SteveK http://themoderatevoice.com/16362/goodbye-to-an-icon/comment-page-1/#comment-106997 SteveK Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:50:03 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/16362/goodbye-to-an-icon/#comment-106997 AT&T may be dropping the business but there are NEW pay phones getting installed at convenience stores thought out the SF Bay Area AND the phones are getting used a lot. <em>Why?</em> For 50¢ you get a TEN minute call to Europe, Mexico, Canada, Central & South America. <em>How?</em> Don't know but I can't do that with my land line or cell phone! What a great idea and with all the soon to be available abandoned pay phone sites becoming available it's probably going to make somebody a couple of bucks... hummm! AT&T may be dropping the business but there are NEW pay phones getting installed at convenience stores thought out the SF Bay Area AND the phones are getting used a lot.

Why? For 50¢ you get a TEN minute call to Europe, Mexico, Canada, Central & South America.

How? Don’t know but I can’t do that with my land line or cell phone!

What a great idea and with all the soon to be available abandoned pay phone sites becoming available it’s probably going to make somebody a couple of bucks… hummm!

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/16362/goodbye-to-an-icon/comment-page-1/#comment-106992 DLS Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:13:23 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/16362/goodbye-to-an-icon/#comment-106992 Last Christmas I was given some DVDs of old teevee shows (some of which are corny, but the old automobiles are just fascinating to watch, even if their tires screech on all kinds of surfaces, including gravel and dirt, as well as on pavement -- plus the shows had more intelligence than what we have nowadays). There are plenty of scenes in those shows where I see someone using a rotary phone. That's what made me think about it when I spotted this thread. Where I'm currently living, there are "phone from car" sheltered drive-up phone stations that have had their phones removed. As far as today's world is also concerned, I thought about how some of those phones won't take incoming calls and how by removing all the phones, the company avoids drug-deal and other crime-related liability problems if their phones are no longer used. That's today's cynical world for you! Last Christmas I was given some DVDs of old teevee shows (some of which are corny, but the old automobiles are just fascinating to watch, even if their tires screech on all kinds of surfaces, including gravel and dirt, as well as on pavement — plus the shows had more intelligence than what we have nowadays). There are plenty of scenes in those shows where I see someone using a rotary phone. That’s what made me think about it when I spotted this thread.

Where I’m currently living, there are “phone from car” sheltered drive-up phone stations that have had their phones removed.

As far as today’s world is also concerned, I thought about how some of those phones won’t take incoming calls and how by removing all the phones, the company avoids drug-deal and other crime-related liability problems if their phones are no longer used. That’s today’s cynical world for you!

]]> By: Pete Abel http://themoderatevoice.com/16362/goodbye-to-an-icon/comment-page-1/#comment-106983 Pete Abel Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:36:54 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/16362/goodbye-to-an-icon/#comment-106983 Yep. Grew up with them. Didn't have a push-button phone in our house until I was mid- to late-teens. Yep. Grew up with them. Didn’t have a push-button phone in our house until I was mid- to late-teens.

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/16362/goodbye-to-an-icon/comment-page-1/#comment-106972 DLS Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:07:43 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/society/16362/goodbye-to-an-icon/#comment-106972 Bah, humbug! I miss rotary phones. (Do you know what those are?) Bah, humbug! I miss rotary phones. (Do you know what those are?)

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