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Ed Aycock
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Well, not really the LAST but one of the last in Manhattan. I shared this on my FB page but as I am not friends with all of you, I thought I'd post it here. This relic is on West End Avenue and 100th Street, is still fully functional and has the support of its neighborhood to stay where it is. There's even been a children's picture book about it. And those of us who still believe a man can fly can still pretend we're him. 
Edited by Ed Aycock on 17 June 2013 at 7:40am
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Matt Reed
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Haven't seen one of those in an age. Great pic. Thanks for sharing!
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Eric Ladd
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The movie "Phone Booth" led me to believe these were all gone. Glad the community is keeping it alive.
I was just recounting something to a friend that involved me meeting people at the arrival gate for their flight. Phone booths, airports, 45 records, etc. all fall into a special part of my past. I am beginning to understand my grandfather's point of view when he would describe his youth and the world as he grew up in it.
Edited by Eric Ladd on 17 June 2013 at 8:25am
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Aaron Smith
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Wow! It's hard to find any sort of pay phone here, never mind a phone booth.
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John Byrne
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 One of the things that finally pushed me to get a cellphone, a decade or so ago, now, was being in New York and twice needing to make a call from the street -- and not being able to find a payphone.
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Andrew Bitner
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my building (a federal office building) had them inside the elevator lobbies when i came to work here 11 years ago, but they've all been removed since. we don't have any on the grounds at all any longer.
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Matthew Wilkie
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The weekend before last my six-year old son, Evan, and I were returning to my car. He asked if it was much further and I replied that it was just beyond the phone box (i.e. what we call a booth in the UK) up ahead. He stared back at me blankly before responding: "What's a phone box?"
Made me feel just a little bit older.
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Jodi Moisan
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It is sad they are gone, ever since the movie the birds, I always felt they offered some level of safety.
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Lars Johansson
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The could at least spare the, I don't know how they look in your country but, the 911 button.
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Carmen Bernardo
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All but gone in my neck of the woods. The last time I used one was in the early 1990s at a campsite downstate where I was staying, and I called to tell the folks that I made it down safely. Nowadays, I can just pull out my cell phone and make the same call, with only the need to pay for another time card to ring up on that same phone.
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Michael Arndt
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Pretty neat picture, Ed.
Thanks for sharing.
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Joe Hollon
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I saw a man using a pay phone about two weeks ago and it struck me as incredibly strange. One, that there was a pay phone available and two that someone would actually be using it!
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