From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban, in article   
   , Charles Bishop wrote:   
      
   >Moe Trin  wrote:   
      
   >>> coin phones,   
      
   >> trying to remember the last time I saw one...   no luck.   
      
   Wandering about Thursday afternoon, and found a kiosk for a coin phone   
   on the sidewalk in front of a Walgreens drugstore - no phone however.   
      
   >Oddly enough, in the last few weeks, I've seen banks of coin operated[1]   
   >phones, in actual phone booths - the kind you can go into, and sit down   
   >and close the door. There was even a shelf I think. I don't know (forgot   
   >to check) if there were phone books. The first set was in the downtown   
   >courthouse in LA, CA. The second was in the (older) courthouse in Santa   
   >Barbara, CA. No surprise they kept them in such old buildings I guess.   
      
   Wonder if that something to do with the legal system not wanting cell   
   phones in the building, rather than the age of the building.   
      
           Old guy   
      
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