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How many payphones are left in your town?
« on: December 24, 2007, 11:38:58 PM »
In my little ass town here in NJ we have about 2, 3, maybe 4. At one time we were messing around with a lot of people too....my older high school days....haha.
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Re: How many payphones are left in your town?
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2007, 12:09:31 AM »
did you do heroin and shoot up your school ?

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Re: How many payphones are left in your town?
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2007, 06:23:03 AM »
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Re: How many payphones are left in your town?
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2007, 06:26:05 AM »
Drive your ass out of Camden and head to NYC, we have plenty of payphones.

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Re: How many payphones are left in your town?
« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2007, 08:54:49 AM »
theres a lot in pittsburgh, i like the old fashioned looking ones in rows of three.  i see them everywhere still.

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Re: How many payphones are left in your town?
« Reply #5 on: December 25, 2007, 09:19:38 AM »
There're a couple.
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Re: How many payphones are left in your town?
« Reply #6 on: December 25, 2007, 09:47:25 AM »
did you do heroin and shoot up your school ?

Wow thats uncalled for. How about just move on and dont read read my posts if you dont like them.
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Re: How many payphones are left in your town?
« Reply #7 on: December 25, 2007, 09:53:49 AM »
did you do heroin and shoot up your school ?

Wow thats uncalled for. How about just move on and dont read read my posts if you dont like them.

How about die in a fire, Jersey trash?

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Re: How many payphones are left in your town?
« Reply #8 on: December 25, 2007, 12:45:04 PM »
Remember to take the stairs instead of the escalator in a fire! Think before you step!
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Re: How many payphones are left in your town?
« Reply #9 on: December 25, 2007, 12:50:48 PM »
did you do heroin and shoot up your school ?

Wow thats uncalled for. How about just move on and dont read read my posts if you dont like them.

How about die in a fire, Jersey trash?
C'mon guys let's not confuse the newb.
Let's get this straight. So first he should shoot up his school and then do her- wait I'm not sure if he'll have time with all the police to do herion.
Okay, okay, I think I got it. First die in a fire, then- shit that won't work either.
HERE WE GO! First do herion. Then shoot up your school WITH INCENDIARY ROUNDS! COMBO! While your school burns to the ground you can die in the fire and accomplish all three things in no time flat!

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Re: How many payphones are left in your town?
« Reply #10 on: December 25, 2007, 01:00:31 PM »
Sorry to get off topic, but here in Oregon we still have tons of pay phones.  Tons and tons.  The mall recently took all of their phones out.  But there's still a pay phone at every convenience store.  There's one or two at the train station.  Two at school, though I've never seen anyone (other than myself) use them.  One that I know of at the hospital.  One of the post office.  There's definitely not as many here as when I lived here 10 years ago.  Oregon also has an unusually high number of phone booths.  I'd say at least 20 phone booths in this town.

Anyone ever see the movie Freejack?  Emilio Estevez ends up in the distant future of 2009 and they have some really cool pay phones there.  And people use them too!  Because, you know, nobody in 2009 owns a cell phone.

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Re: How many payphones are left in your town?
« Reply #11 on: December 25, 2007, 01:43:10 PM »
On Long Island, most of the payphones have been taken out. You can almost always find about four at any train station, two on the street and at least two on the platform itself. In the lower-income burgs you'll see more near gas stations and outside of bodegas. Go figure.

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Re: How many payphones are left in your town?
« Reply #12 on: December 25, 2007, 01:59:22 PM »
THere's one across the street from me...and 2 of them in my building.

There was a guy from sbc just a couple days ago....he was putting in a new payphone!

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Re: How many payphones are left in your town?
« Reply #13 on: December 25, 2007, 03:27:26 PM »
I live in the suburbs of Austin TX. There's one or two payphones at every gas station, and an SBC payphone at most of the bus stops along Braker lane (Braker lane is a rather busy street). All the schools recently had their payphones taken out recently though. There are also numerous other bisuness/commercial places with at lease one payphone (HEB, office buildindgs, Walgreens, ect.) I also know of a gas station with four working payphones infront of it; I'll have to snap a picture of it when I get the chance.

Yeah, Austin still has a lot of its payfones, (which is a good thing! I'm so lucky to live in this town  ;D)

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Re: How many payphones are left in your town?
« Reply #14 on: December 25, 2007, 08:07:42 PM »
Not too many. I live in ATT land though, so ATT just took out most of their payphones. They took out the three in my school and one in a barnes and noble. However, there is an Ameritech payphone in an apartment complex nearby. But other than that, there are about 5 COCOTS in my town.
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