A relic today, the first public pay telephone in the USA was installed and operated in 1889. (5)
galrads: A pay telephone about 100 years later is shown in the photo below.
Does anyone remember when Pay telephones first popped up in your country, outside the USA?
1921 was the first telephone kiosk in the U.K. for the G.P.O. as it was then called.,followed by the classic red telephone box .Does anyone remember when Pay telephones first popped up in your country, outside the USA?
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Makes me wonder what the incidence was catching a bug from using a public telephone. 
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galrads: Makes me wonder what the incidence was catching a bug from using a public telephone.
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Accordingly immune systems were better.
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Does anyone remember when Pay telephones first popped up in your country, outside the USA?