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Medic! Medic! Pay phones down!
By adamg on Thu, 03/10/2022 - 2:25pm
Garrett Quinn came across this sad sight today: Two of the last working pay phones in all of Boston, knocked to the ground on Summer Street in front of Macy's in Downtown Crossing. Quinn, a grizzled old-school reporter, says he picked up the receiver on the top side to see if it was still working: He says he got a busy signal.
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Surely an "accident"
I suspect the phone "came out of nowhere".
Was the phone wearing a
Was the phone wearing a helmet?
if you're an anachronism in DTX
you gotta understand...
Phone was too close to the
Phone was too close to the street should’ve been more on the sidewalk.
I admittedly had no idea that there were still pay phones around
I admittedly had no idea that there were still pay phones around. I guess these must've been the last of them. (lol)
There's another pair in DTX
There's another pair in DTX on Washington St. near the McDonalds.
I think there is still one outside of Back Bay Station
Maybe
Used to be one at Mass & Newbury, next to the old bus stop. Construction might have gotten that one torn out
I’m pretty sure that phone ..
… was on it’s mobile, wearing headphones and not wearing high viz.
Because I see that all the time!