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New pay phone will link Abilene and San Francisco (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 1 month ago by robocall@lemmy.world to c/sanfrancisco@lemmy.world

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It's a town in Texas

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[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Perhaps a language understanding issue on my side (no native English speaker...):
Does the "pay" in pay phone has any significance or is it a term like "riding shotgun", that is still in use but has nothing to do anymore with warding of bandits with actual guns?

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Before cellphones, payphones were coin operated public telephones people could pay to use if they needed to make a phone call.

In San Francisco, I know of one functioning payphone that is still in service. Most have been removed since there is no demand for them any longer.

But this one is free and only calls the other one in Texas with a specific intention.