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[OC] Artifact of a lost civilization (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah those Bell phones (and some Telus ones in Western Canada) are still in many places surprisingly, but increasingly rare and I haven't seen any one use one in Canada for years.

A couple non-Bell ones I know of in downtown Toronto still operate somehow.

Also it's kind of neat to see places with payphones where you know they were used way more often before, like Portland [Oregon] Union Station. I could imagine people getting off a train forming lines to try to send word home they made it into town...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Yeah lines for the phone were common. People would argue about the relative importance of their phone call. I don't miss it, but I kind of miss phone booths. I don't know why.