On Thu, 18 May 2006 20:07:09 -0400, "Bruce Remick"
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"e" wrote in message
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In article , "note.boy"
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"stonej" wrote in message
egroups.com...
Moving more toward the cashless society I guess.


http://www.marketrasentoday.co.uk/Vi...3&ArticleID=15
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It rare now to see a phone box being used as 99% of everyone has a mobile
phone. Billy


they're great public loo's for the drunkers.


I still saw plenty of the old red phone boxes in London a couple weeks ago. Not
quite as many hooker-escort service ads plastered on the inside as I remembered
from thirty years earlier. Never saw the phone actually being used. The only
people using the boxes were tourists posing for photos.

Bruce



I was at RAF Chicksands outside of Befordshire from 1973 to 1976. I
always had a pocketfull of 2p coins so I could use the phone box to
call my wife to check in during the day. The phone had a 10p slot but
I never talked more than 2 2p worth of time.
Seems all the public loos in London took 1p coins or 5p, hard to
remember. The loos in Hitchin were always free. I never went to
London without a pocketful of change.
Cliff