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    Anybody that finds Bell, Western Electric payphone parts

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    Quote Originally Posted by ScrapperNJ26 View Post
    You guys and gals are going to get the condensed version of this story, a bit of trivia.

    The telephone company's don't even trust their own coin box collectors, each driver has a empty box;s to replace the coin box pulled which by the way automatically closes with a seal before leaving the lock box bay.

    Once the fresh empty box is inserted into the bay the key used to remove the full coin box will not release the new box. The key for this set of locks is out on an undisclosed route with another driver.

    The routine changing of the lock box's and keys also prevents anyone fro stealing a phone booth then cutting their own key, chasing all over the city to find the batch of phones that new key fits would be a waste of time

    My brother used to be a coin box collector, I'm told that when the bean counters got the full box's they had well over $300.00 in them.

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    Yeah! That was me! That was MY $300! LOL I once got mad at a non working phone, it ripped off my money! Sitting there in my Oldsmobile (a 77 Delta 88), wrapped the cord around my mirror, and drove away Then it ripped off my mirror! Dang, them things was built!
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    I think all the pay phones that are left at least in New York are now prlvately owned. Phone company sold them off due to evolution of the cellphone and the cost of repairs. You know like when someone wraps the cord around their mirror and drives away.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BRASSCATCHER View Post
    I think all the pay phones that are left at least in New York are now prlvately owned. Phone company sold them off due to evolution of the cellphone and the cost of repairs. You know like when someone wraps the cord around their mirror and drives away.
    Hey! It didn't even hurt the phone lol Nothing like one time at the gas pump anyway. During a weekly 600 mile drive to work, I was running late and short on gas, so stopped at an all night station to gas up. The clerk wasn't turning the gas on (this was long before everybody went to pre-pay) so I went inside to kindly ask them to. There was a girl behind the counter too busy flirting with these two guys there to pay any attention to her job, but agreed to turn it on. I returned to pump the gas, but it still wasn't on, so I returned to the store and the party inside was still going on, so I just decided to head on for the dock ( i was working offshore at the time), jumped in my van and took off. Heard some kind of a "pop!" but didn't know what it could be, at least not until glancing in my side view mirror, and seeing the gas nozzle still hanging there, with a few feet of hose. I stopped, tossed it over in the ditch and kept on trucking.

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    That is some funny stuff right there....


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