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Here's the America's Most Wanted segment about the guy, James Clark, from 1988: https://youtu.be/e56gA8NBXuQ?t=1204 https://youtu.be/e56gA8NBXuQ?t=1204
by Algemarin 2y ago
Here's the America's Most Wanted segment about the guy, James Clark, from 1988:
https://youtu.be/e56gA8NBXuQ?t=1204 https://youtu.be/e56gA8NBXuQ?t=1204
- n1b0m 2y agoShame about the sound quality
- xp84 2y agoThe details about this guy at the end were hilarious. Apparently he always stays at Motel 6 and eats at 7-11. Totally living it up on Ma Bell’s dime, I see!
- thedrexster 2y agoMa Bell's _quarters_, you mean. :)
- ThePowerOfFuet 2y agoOnly for the kids. Where do you think "dropping a dime on someone" came from?
- macintux 2y agoI vaguely recall visiting Boston c1990 and discovering pay phone calls there were still 10¢, while they had been 25¢ in Indiana as long as I could remember. I'd be curious when and where the last ten-cent phone call was made.
- yial 2y agoChat GPT says Emerson Nebraska had one until 2015. But I cannot find any source to back this up. Reliable sources seem to say around 1985/1986 prices increased. I feel like if that’s true, 2600 must have a photo, right?
- cafard 2y agoI'm pretty sure I remember being thoroughly offended about 1980 when I found a pay phone that required 25 cents. I think that this was in the Denver area.
- xp84 2y agoThis thread is comforting to me* because by the time I became aware of the cost of using a payphone, they had already gone up to 35¢. *in the opposite way to how those memes where they say "It's been 30 years since _____" kill me inside