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My latest side project, a modern day Social Pariah. THE PUBLIC PAY TELEPHONE. Can you imagine the panic this would create for you in April 2020 if this was your only public interface- no cell phone, no mobile, no facebook. You would have to use this phone, outside somewhere. After someone else- a drunk, maybe a kid from school, maybe a lawyer with cold, or some old guy who just poked his finger into the return chute for a dime someone else with the flu forgot.
From a curiosity collectors viewpoint, this is a Western Electric 1C1 rotary coin telephone. I bought this very cheap at a flea market about a year ago, and set it aside for later work. I just found a key to open it up. I found 87cents stuck inside, in the escrow chute. I'll clean this phone up. Single slot Rotary pay phones are quite rare- not many were made, and fewer survived. Mine's a 1C1 Dial-Tone-First, originally from Gaithersburg's #5 crossbar plant. I will polish up its weather-worn front, it'll look nearly new, and it does work on my PBX. Don't expect any refunds tho, CoyoteNet keeps all monies, too bad fer you.
At least, I have taken measures to clean it up, you'll not catch any Cooties from it.
BTW, if you really wanna see some of the coyote's CoyoteNet Telephone Service, look at the background. My CoyoteNet notes are all there.
From a curiosity collectors viewpoint, this is a Western Electric 1C1 rotary coin telephone. I bought this very cheap at a flea market about a year ago, and set it aside for later work. I just found a key to open it up. I found 87cents stuck inside, in the escrow chute. I'll clean this phone up. Single slot Rotary pay phones are quite rare- not many were made, and fewer survived. Mine's a 1C1 Dial-Tone-First, originally from Gaithersburg's #5 crossbar plant. I will polish up its weather-worn front, it'll look nearly new, and it does work on my PBX. Don't expect any refunds tho, CoyoteNet keeps all monies, too bad fer you.
At least, I have taken measures to clean it up, you'll not catch any Cooties from it.
BTW, if you really wanna see some of the coyote's CoyoteNet Telephone Service, look at the background. My CoyoteNet notes are all there.
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Yep, like everything else that Western Electric manufactured, they date-coded almost every part. This phone started out as a 1A1, (btw very rare now) sometime about 1972-3. About 1979 it was taken in and re-manufactured as a 1C1.
AT&T and Bell System were masters at recycling their equipment.
AT&T and Bell System were masters at recycling their equipment.
Ac tually there were improvements in the Bell System itself. ACTS and TSPS started in the early 70's that allowed users to dial certain types of calls without any kind of coin deposits. The 1A1 was made capable of only Coin First service, like all had been in the older operator-handled coin calls. The 1C series has internal changes so that certain calls (toll, 411,911 0+ etc.) can be dialed without depositing any coinage.
The last time I've seen a phone like this, I must have been 10 years old.
Woolworth had four of them in large wooden phone booths with folding
doors that would turn on the light and an exhaust fan when they closed.
I was in Jersey, right across from NYC. The phones all said Bell Atlantic.
My gosh, this brings back memories. I miss walking around town, going
to Woolworth's and having a Coke or an A&W Rootbeer float with friends.
Woolworth had four of them in large wooden phone booths with folding
doors that would turn on the light and an exhaust fan when they closed.
I was in Jersey, right across from NYC. The phones all said Bell Atlantic.
My gosh, this brings back memories. I miss walking around town, going
to Woolworth's and having a Coke or an A&W Rootbeer float with friends.
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