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|  02-19-2011, 02:51 PM | #1 | 
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			phone booths I was watching a movie it had phone booths in it in Manhattan. There are no phone booths there that I recall.... 
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|  02-19-2011, 03:07 PM | #2 | 
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			I asked a friend's sixteen year old daughter if she had ever used a 'pay phone'.  I had to explain what a pay phone was. Archaic also rans: rotary dial phone film camera "little black book" 
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|  02-19-2011, 03:09 PM | #3 | 
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			knobs (like on a TV or radio, nothing has knobs anymore) Also archaic, the phrase: "Don't touch that dial..." 
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|  02-19-2011, 03:11 PM | #4 | 
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			"I'm a small black woman in a big silver box ..."  It's even rare to see payphones anymore. Where does Superman go to change these days? We're a bit short on honest-to-goodness video arcades (not just a corner of the movie theater or a theme restaurant). 
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|  02-19-2011, 03:13 PM | #5 | 
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			There are quasi phone booths in GCT, I think they only take cards or can make collect calls. I'll ask Mrs. Foot, she told me about them.
		 
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|  02-19-2011, 03:27 PM | #6 | 
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			It just occurred to me that we may have lost phone booths because Americans have become too fat to comfortably fit in them?
		 
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|  02-19-2011, 03:38 PM | #7 | 
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			Heck, you can hardly find a pay phone of any sort around here, let alone one in a phone booth.  I blame the ubiquitous cell phone.  Also, is this just my small town or are those big mail drop boxes disappearing elsewhere, too?
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|  02-19-2011, 03:48 PM | #8 | 
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			Night watchmen.   It's all done with video and cameras now. elevator operator. 
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|  02-19-2011, 05:53 PM | #9 | 
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			Cash registers that do NOT calculate the change Typewriters that type on paper (and carbon paper and white out) Slide rules - straight and circular One-man Post Offices Sears Roebuck Service Departments | 
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|  12-29-2011, 02:47 AM | #12 | 
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			Post offices in general, soon. They're closing a huge one in Bowling Green, KY. 
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|  02-19-2011, 07:02 PM | #14 | 
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|  02-19-2011, 07:03 PM | #15 | 
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			not to mention the change girls.
		 
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