When's the last time you saw a payphone?

About ten years ago; I think airports still have them, and bus stops, and some Walmarts have them inside the entry vestibule.

Every morning when I walk.

Times have changed.

They were at least around in 2002.

You might still be able to find one at hospitals. I took a friend to emergency about three months ago and saw one.

Also, large airports. I've read LAX sill has some.

I miss payphones.

R5 last time I used it, it was a quarter. Is it still a quarter?

I could have sworn it was 35 cents last time I saw one, maybe 15 years ago.

When I was in high school I’d use a pay phone to prank call video stores asking if they had a copy of “Chicks Who Suck Cock And Eat Cum”.

When I was a kid, my school (K-12) installed a payphone in the high school wing just outside the principal's office. The first day some dumbfuck called in a bomb threat to the office, which was separated from the hall by a bank of windows. He called from said payphone. In full view of the secretary who answered it. It was a K-12 school, which you know means it was a small town and everybody knew everybody, including their voices. She hung and went outside and led him into the principal's office by the ear.

Not in this century. And nor for some years before I had a mobile phone.

I was killing time in my car and saw one yesterday at the back of a parking lot of a Mobil gas station in Guilford, CT. I could not believe it!

I think 2005. It was in Philadelphia. It didn’t work.

[quote] Also, large airports. I've read LAX sill has some.

The interactive map at Los Angeles International Airport {LAX} says that they still have payphone availability in Terminal 4 in conjunction with the airport offering TTY-TDD-TT services.

TTY (TeleTYpe), TDD (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf), and TT (Text Telephone) acronyms are used interchangeably to refer to any type of text-based telecommunications equipment used by a person who does not have enough functional hearing to understand speech, even with amplification. The person sending a message types it on a small keyboard, and the person receiving the message reads the text on the display. In order for a person to use a text telephone, the individual at the other end of the conversation must also have one, or they must use a relay service. A relay service provides an operator who reads the text on a TTY and speaks the message into a telephone and/or listens on a telephone and types the message on a TTY.

R12 wishes to acknowledge that he stupidly misread the question as 'used,' not 'saw.'

I’m in Italy and just saw one a few hours ago.

^ The bigger question for Italy would be, but does it work? .. Is it even hooked up to the network? .. or did Telecom Italia just leave it there without removing it?

2014, in Zurich.

Only thing reliable on 9/11

My town, of 1700 residents, has six payphones. I think the cost is $0.50