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Kittigate

If I was driving through your city on my way to Timbuktu where could I find a payphone to call information for directions?

Do they still have '411 information'?

Posted - June 3, 2021
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  • 1953
    You might have a hard time finding a public payphone in my town.
      June 3, 2021 10:19 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    'Zat right? I might never make it to Timbuktu :(
      June 3, 2021 10:37 AM MDT
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  • 11110
    You  could find one at the Parksville medical center and one at the Parksville City hall/tec center.  I think we still use 411 here but there is a fifty cent charge when you use it. Cheers!
      June 3, 2021 10:42 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    That's good,  I might as well fill up the tank too because I got a long ways to go.
      June 3, 2021 11:37 AM MDT
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  • 10643
    Pay phone?  They took the last one of those things out years ago.  Since Timbuktu is an actual "town" near here, it's best just to follow the signs.  
      June 3, 2021 1:47 PM MDT
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  • 17599
    In your search engine type "Location of pay telephones in xxxxxxx,xx"
      June 3, 2021 8:14 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Thank-you!  (Thank you) This post was edited by Kittigate at June 3, 2021 9:55 PM MDT
      June 3, 2021 9:44 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Thank-you Thank you. Who hyphenates that? And pay phones have been obsolete for at least 15 years.
      June 3, 2021 9:48 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Ok but my spell correct said 'thank-you'. Whom am supposed to believe? 

    I knew pay phones were scarce but not totally eliminated.
      June 3, 2021 9:53 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Trust your friendly neighborhood grammar policeman!
      June 3, 2021 10:15 PM MDT
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  • 17599
    They are not obsolete.  Perhaps where you live, but not nationally.  True only about 100,000 remain.  The only thing that makes a pay phone a payphone is the actual device.  It uses a regular landline.  Little country stores and bait shops often still have a payphone.  It's their business phone and might generate a little cash.  I actually used my own advice and found four payphones in my area.

    https://www.payphone-directory.org/payny.html  (I don't know how old this is) This post was edited by Thriftymaid at June 4, 2021 10:22 PM MDT
      June 4, 2021 5:31 PM MDT
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