Telephone booths on prowl (Aug, 1964)
Telephone booths on prowl
This mobile telephone truck, equipped with six pay phones and a coin changer, can speed to any spot in Washington, D.C., where emergency phone service is needed in a hurry. Its crew just hooks it into existing wires.
While waiting for emergencies to call it into service, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. uses the unit to collect dimes from stationary booths.
It’s like a mobile phone!
It’s amazing how big cell phones were way back when.
So it’s for emergency use, but you have to bring change to operate it.
So…if you didn;t have a nickel you were SOL??
Des: Worse – the article says “dimes.”
But buddy, if you can’ spare a dime, you are pretty low already.