Is it true that in "ye olden times" you could sit at a dingy bar and ask the bartender for a phone and they'd give you a rotary phone on a long as cord so you could make a call while slinging drinks?

SovietBeerTruckOperator [none/use name]@hexbear.net · 17 hours ago

Is it true that in "ye olden times" you could sit at a dingy bar and ask the bartender for a phone and they'd give you a rotary phone on a long as cord so you could make a call while slinging drinks?

prole [any, any]@hexbear.net · edit-2 16 hours ago

Even as recently as 2008, but it was a cordless phone and a dive bar that hadn’t changed much since the 80s

trinicorn [comrade/them]@hexbear.net · edit-2 15 hours ago

it was a cordless phone and a dive bar that hadn’t changed much since the 80s

I still have one of these

I’ve yet to find one with a working payphone in the last 5-10 years, but several with non-working payphones in little booths they never bothered to rip out

Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net · 10 hours ago

I’ve yet to find one with a working payphone in the last 5-10 years, but several with non-working payphones in little booths they never bothered to rip out

I know of a few in the area that replaced theirs with dedicated phones that only call a single cab company. I assume they get some sort of cut or space rental fee for the phone.