re: The 1980s in one pic

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No way a kid today would know what one is

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For sure.


I remember basically every kid had one when I was in elementary school.

I was born in 81... 50 cents for a coke, 50 cents for chips or a candy bar. Snacktime!

Any Patrick Nagel print

Man, frick robots and cell phones and smart refrigerators and politicians and globalists.

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Payphones started declining in big numbers in the early 00s, maybe 00-05. They used to be everywhere though.

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I remember in 8th grade we took a field trip to D.C. and my parents gave me a prepaid calling card for pay phones to call them on. That was 2004 and they were still common. They started declining a couple years later with rise of cheap cell phones and better cell service.

Oddly there is still a working pay phone down a couple blocks from my house it’s on the outside wall of a building downtown that’s a weekend night club black folk go to

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Have many times have you guys asked to borrow a dime (then a quarter) to make a call? And . . . how many of you had the long extension chord added to your home phone so you could talk to your special lady friend with a little bit of privacy?

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I had the teen line for my bedroom bc my daddy was self employed and he didn’t want the home phone to be busy.

I used to give him the red arse bc every month I had a huge bill from doing emergency breakthroughs when my boyfriends phone was busy a long time. Every month he’d say you better not let me find out next month you made anymore!

We ran buck wild in the 80’s. I am amazed at what we got away with. I never bought weed but it was always around. Booze was cheap and getting ID’ed was never an issue.
The music was awesome and we had all the pre-aids no worries nookie we could handle.
We lived like kings.

There were no limits and no consequences. We went to HS with a shotgun in the gun rack and an ice chest of cold beer so you could pop a cold one as soon as you hit the parking lot.

Lastly, concert tickets were cheap. I saw Van Halen in Baton Rouge in 1980 for $8.

Absolutely the best years of my life.

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Always had to find one to return pages from my beeper.

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My phone died one day (like permanently)a few years ago. Needed to call someone. That day I realized pay phones no longer exist (or very rarely). Only option was to go to work to use the phone, buy a new one right away, or drive to a friends house and knock on the door.

That is exactly how the Mcdonalds on Greenwell Springs road and Monterrey (and boys) looked

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Payphones started declining in big numbers in the early 00s, maybe 00-05. They used to be everywhere though.

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The movie “Phone Booth” staring Colin Farrell came out in 2002. The whole movie is a dude using a pay phone in 2002.